Nearly 300 high school students drowned on a ferry boat in this country in 2014.
For the first time ever, all SATs were cancelled across this country in May 2013. During this country's 2012 parliamentary elections, the NIS spy agency was accused of manipulating votes to defeat an antivirus software mogul. A president from here in the early 2000s introduced the Sunshine Policy. The first non-Middle Eastern outbreak of (*) MERS took place in this country in 2015. Nearly 300 high school students drowned on a ferry boat in this country in 2014. It has conglomerates called chaebols. It disputes the Liancourt Rocks with Japan. For 10 points, name this country which engages in many standoffs with its Communist neighbor.
For the first time ever, all SATs were cancelled across this country in May 2013.
South Korea [or Republic of Korea; or ROK; prompt on Korea; do not accept or prompt on “DPRK” or “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”]