No. It is in the NORTHEAST of asia.
"In common usage, the term Northeast Asia typically refers to a region including China.[2][3] In this sense, the core countries constituting Northeast Asia are China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Northeast_Asian_count...
If you don't even know simple things like geography and locations of major nations, why are you even talking about economics?
> Nation groupings aren't exactly scientific taxonomies.
We aren't talking nation groupings. We are talking GEOGRAPHY. NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST.
No. It is in the NORTHEAST of asia.
"In common usage, the term Northeast Asia typically refers to a region including China.[2][3] In this sense, the core countries constituting Northeast Asia are China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Northeast_Asian_count...
If you don't even know simple things like geography and locations of major nations, why are you even talking about economics?
> Nation groupings aren't exactly scientific taxonomies.
We aren't talking nation groupings. We are talking GEOGRAPHY. NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST.