Or that they produce the most ships of any country. Or that so many Koreans were Christians..
But the rest... nah. I probably read but forgot about the party renamer, and otherwise... is it really relevant? South Korea is an odd cross of democracy and American military possession, colored (just like North Korea, of course of course) by a quite unique experience of imperialism - at the hand of an Asian neighbor, and not the one they'd always looked up to and felt to be almost part of, but the semibarbaric other one. That's the important thing to know (and the Christian thing is tied with the bit about Asian imperialism. And later to the US influence.)
I've read that South Korea's strong Christian heritage is a big part of the reason why Korean politics are more turbulent and prone to polarization than Japanese politics.
