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A circle divided by an S-curve into red above and blue below.
Also known as: Taeguk, Korean yin yang, Red and blue circle, Korean taegeuk circle
The taegeuk at the centre of the South Korean flag is the Korean form of the yin-yang, and it differs from the Chinese taijitu in two visible ways: it is red and blue rather than black and white, and it has no small counter-coloured dots. The red half sits above the blue.
Denotes the balance of opposing cosmic forces, drawn as a circle divided by an S-curve into a red upper half and a blue lower half.
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Differs from the Chinese taijitu by its colours and by the absence of the two counter-coloured dots that the Chinese form carries.
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Sits at the centre of the flag of South Korea, surrounded by four trigrams from the I Ching representing heaven, earth, fire and water.
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A circle divided by a single reversed-S curve into two comma-shaped halves, the upper red and the lower blue, with no smaller dots inside either.