Reply to the comment on Lee et al., “Detrital zircon geochronology and Nd isotope geochemistry of the basal succession of the Taebaeksan Basin, South Korea: Implications for the Gondwana linkage of the Sino-Korean (North China) block during the Neoprotero

In the comment on our paper, Cho and Cheong (2016) and Kim and Ree (2016) make a number of arguments that we did not discuss the Cambrian zircons from our data and have cast doubt on our early Cambrian paleogeographic reconstruction. They also argued that our data do not pass statistical tests between concerned strata for paleogeographic reconstruction. In response to the comment, we show that these arguments are not based on sound geological evidence and conditions that we provided in our paper.