Kore Tarihinde Bugün 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Aralik

[usagi-chan]

Tesekkürler.

[pnar]

Paylasim için tesekkürler.

[fatosss]

Bilgi ve paylasim için tesekkür ederim.

[KoreanStyle]

Hazirladigin ve paylastigin için tesekkür ederiz Tugba Abla.

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December 2

1946 -- Korean independence fighter Rhee Syngman, who later became South Korea's first president, visits the United States with a proposal that his country set up its own government. Korea had regained sovereignty the previous year after 35 years of Japanese colonial rule as a result of Japan's defeat in World War II.

The liberation, however, was followed by the division of the peninsula, with U.S. forces occupying the southern half and troops from the Soviet Union taking control of the northern half, and the 1950-53 Korean War.


1952 -- Then U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower visits South Korea.


2002 -- Kookmin Bank and a new lottery operator, KLS consortium, begin selling lottery tickets.


( Yonhap News )

[Aphrodite]

December 3

1952 -- The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the transfer of all Korean War prisoners to a politically neutral location.


1995 -- Former president Chun Doo-hwan is indicted on corruption charges, as well as for his role in the coup through which he rose to power in 1980. Later sentenced to life in prison, Chun was pardoned in December 1997 by President Kim Dae-jung.


1997 -- The International Monetary Fund agrees with the South Korean government on a US$55 billion rescue package. As a result of the financial meltdown late that year, many of Korea's financial institutions and hundreds of heavily-indebted corporations went bankrupt, plunging the nation into an economic slump for the next two years.


( Yonhap News )

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December 4


1884 -- Kim Ok-kyun, Pak Yong-hyo and other young reformist officials, supported by the Japanese government, briefly seize power in a coup, seeking to modernize and open Korea's last kingdom, the Yi Dynasty. The new group believed Korea should emulate Japan which institutionalized reforms in 1868 and transformed itself into a modern society. The coup, however, proved to be short-lived when the Chinese army intervened out of concern that the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula was shifting decisively toward the Japanese.


1964 -- South Korea and West Germany sign an accord aimed at promoting economic exchanges.


1979 -- A military court begins the trial of eight people, including former intelligence chief Kim Jae-kyu, on charges of assassinating President Park Chung-hee. Park was shot dead on Oct. 26, 1979, having held power for 19 years following a military coup.


2003 -- The National Assembly overrides President Roh Moo-hyun's veto and passes a bill for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate his former aides on corruption charges.

The move by the opposition-controlled assembly came just nine days after Roh vetoed the bill, saying that there was already an ongoing investigation by prosecutors into the alleged irregularities.


( Yonhap News )