The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (, ) is the pledge to the national flag of South Korea. The pledge is recited at flag ceremonies immediately before the South Korean national anthem.
The current pledge was introduced on July 27, 2007. A previous pledge of allegiance was used from 1972 until 2007 and was introduced by then-president Park Chung-hee.
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I strongly pledge, in front of the proud Korean flag, allegiance to my fatherland, to devote my body and soul to the eternal glory of the ethnicity.
I firmly pledge, proudly in front of the Korean flag [Taegukgi], to loyally devote our body and soul to the eternal glory of the fatherland [joguk] and the ethnicity ['].
I am firmly committed to fulfilling my allegiance by offering my body and mind for the endless glory of my fatherland and ethnicity before the proud Korean flag.
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I pledge, in front of proud Taegeuk flag, allegiance to the Republic of Korea for the eternal glory of the country, liberty and freedom to the Republic of Korea.
I, standing before the noble Taegeuk flag, solemnly pledge allegiance to the Republic of Korea, to its glory, liberty and justice.
I am firmly committed to my loyalty to the endless glory of the great Korean nation that is free and just in front of a proud Taegeuk flag.
Unlike the current pledge which pledges allegiance to the state of South Korea, the 1972 pledge rather pledged allegiance to the "Korean nation" or "Korean ethnicity" (translated as "Korean race" by some critics such as Brian Reynolds Myers), also known as the minjok.
This version of the pledge was discontinued in July 2007, during the presidency of Roh Moo-hyun, and replaced with different version without references to minjok. The decision was criticized by some left-wing nationalists who advocated Korean reunification of the two Koreas. Similarly, until April 2011, the South Korean army's soldiers swore allegiance to the "Korean minjok" in their oaths of enlistment until that, too, was discontinued for similar reasons.