Flag of South Korea.

 The flag of South Korea, additionally called the Taegukgi (additionally spelled as Taegeukgi, lit. 'Taegeuk flag') and colloquially called the flag of Korea, has three components: a white rectangular background, a crimson and blue Taegeuk in its center, and four black trigrams, one in each nook. Flags similar to the present day Taegeukgi were used because the national flag of Korea via the Joseon dynasty, the Korean Empire, and the Korean authorities-in-exile in the course of Japanese rule. South Korea adopted the Taegukgi as its national flag when it won independence from Japan on 15 August 1945.

The flag's subject is white, a conventional coloration in Korean subculture. White turned into not unusual within the day by day apparel of nineteenth-century Koreans, and it nonetheless seems in modern-day variations of traditional Korean clothes, along with the hanbok. The colour represents peace and purity. The circle within the flag's center symbolizes balance inside the international. The blue half of represents the sky, and the red 1/2 represents the land. Together, the trigrams constitute movement and concord as fundamental ideas. Each trigram (hangeul: 괘 [gwae]; hanja: 卦) represents one of the four classical factors,[3] as described beneath: