One Country Motto

More excerpts from The Complete Idiot's Guide To Understanding North Korea by Dr. C. Kenneth Quinones and Joseph Tragert (Alpha Books, 2003).

The authors wrote that the motto "han nara" or "one country" was banned in South Korea prior to 1988 during the decades of authoritarian rule as it was considered a "communist" term.

"But now South Korea's main opposition political party proudly wears the label, "han nara dang", or "the party of one country.""

This change in attitude is said to be a result of the 1992 Olympic Games when the two Koreas decided to field a single team, and where the common flag depicted the entire Korean Peninsula on a white background (pictured).