今週は韓国へ！（５） ― 38th parallel

韓国特集は本日で最後です。

今日の単語はズバリ、北緯38度線、韓国と北朝鮮を分かつ国境です。

英語では、38th parallelというそうですが、知りませんでした。"38th parallel north"ともいうようです。


Korea was colonized by Japan in 1910. At the end of World War II in 1945, the peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel by the great powers, with the Soviet Union installing leadership in the North, and the United States placing leadership in the South. Designed to be a temporary arrangement at the time, it ossified during the Cold War and still pertains more than six decades later.
(Andrew Salmon. What is life like inside North Korea? CNN. October 10, 2010.)


ところで、数字で始まる単語を取り上げるのは今日が初めてです。