The Korean Flag

The Korean flag is made up of all different signs, each meaning something different. The white background of the Korean flag means peace. Then the Yin-Yang means something different then the background. Yin means dark and cold, while Yang means bright and hot. An example of that would be the sun, Yang, and the moon, Yin. Now the symbol on the top left of the flag, the one with the three lines, means heaven. The next symbol right below the one that mean heaven, three lines with the middle line is split in half, means fire. Now the symbol on the top right hand corner, three lines with the two outer lines are broken in half, means water. The final symbol, three lines and all split in half, means Earth. Which each important sign of the Korean flag means a lot of Koreas people.
Korea first felt the need for a national flag as it was preparing to conclude the Korean-American Treaty of Commerce, which was concluded and signed on May 22 and June 6, 1882, respectively. This was during the 19th year of the reign of King Gojong of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910). Korea adopted a blue and red yin-yang on a white field, a favorite Korean design since ancient times. Thus, the taegeuk design flag became the temporary national flag. Later Korea added eight trigrams combinations of three unbroken and broken bars - around the taegeuk circle and thereby creating the taegeukgi, which served as the national colors for a while. King Gojong appointed Bak Yeoung-hyo as his ambassador to Japan in September 1882. While aboard ship heading for Japan, Bak drew a national flag with a taegeuk circle but included only four trigrams instead of eight, and started using the flag on the 25th of that month. On October 3, Bak reported this change to King Gojong who formally proclaimed the Taegeukgi as the national flag on March 6, 1883. For some unknown reason, however, he did not have formal instructions published at that time on how to make the flag. In fact, it wasn't till June 29, 1942, that the provisional Korean government in exile enacted a law on the uniform method of making the national flag. The law was promulgated but as the government was in exile, it was not widely known to Koreans at home still under Japanese colonial rule. Following the founding of the Republic of Korea on August 15, 1948, the government felt that it should codify the method of making the national flag. This prompted the government to form a special commission in January 1949 that issued the provision on the national flag on October 15 of that year. Since then, the Republic of Korea has been using the Taegeukgi as the national flag.