


Welcome to the web site of the Embassy of the Republic of Costa Rica in Korea.
Costa Rica and Korea have established diplomatic relations in 1962, from that time the bilateral relations have been taking place in the politic, commercial and investment, cooperation, culture and education areas in many other aspects.
As a part to continue with this effort we present this web site to users for their facilities.
Costa Rica possess a privileged location in the heart of America. It limits from east and northeast with the Caribbean Sea; from west and south with the Pacific Ocean; with south-east with Panama and with north with Nicaragua. Its geographic position makes to be a biologic and cultural bridge to find out forest and animal species, such as the north culture and south of the continent.
In its small surface of 51.100 km2, we can find a variety of rivers, plains, mountains, valley, flora, fauna, volcanoes, beaches, protect areas, biological and microclimate reserves, which allowed the 5% of the biodiversity of the planet to reside here.
The tradition of peace is because of more than one hundred years of democracy and the abolition of troops form 1948.
The Costa Rica economy politics have been oriented from the decade of 90, to the globalization and free commerce. The economy is dynamic: the exportation of non-traditional products have increased and the products have been diversified. In the last year of tourism and the attraction of the Foreign Direct Inversion for the products of high value and technology are their priorities.
We invite you to discover more about Costa Rica by surfing our web site.
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