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This chapter focuses on the commonalities among Koreans from the Republic of South Korea. The Korean peninsula is separated at the 38th parallel. Korea is one of the two oldest continuous civilizations in the world, second only to China.
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Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). People of Korean Heritage. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_23
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