Hot take:

Via descriptive linguistics, yes because most people act like it is.

Via prescriptive linguistics, no because that's fukin dumb, at best it's a subcontinent like Arabia, India, China etc

welp guess i'll go buy some LK-99 YES

Oh god no one else is voting No

If your reasoning about Korea is valid, which apparently you think it is, then Europe is a continent by the same logic.

@33cb It is called reductio ad absurdum. Korea is not a continent.

How do you know?