Kore Tarihinde Bugün 12, 14, 15, 16 Ekim

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Tesekkürler.

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Bilgi ve paylasim için tesekkür ederim.

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Oct. 12


1897 -- The Daehan Empire is established, with King Gojong of the Joseon Dynasty becoming its emperor.


1923 -- Ferry service opens between the ports of Masan, Korea and Osaka, Japan.


1949 -- South Korea establishes its air force.


1980 -- A monument is set up on Jeju Island in memory of Hendrick Hamel, a Dutch seaman who became the first Westerner to write about Korea after he was shipwrecked on the island in the 17th century.


1985 -- A test-tube baby is born in South Korea for the first time by a team from Seoul National University.


1987 -- The National Assembly passes a revision of the Constitution to establish free presidential elections.


1992 -- South Korea's first domestically made submarine, the 1,200-ton-class Icheon, is christened.


(Yonhap)

[Aphrodite]

Oct. 13


2000 -- President Kim Dae-jung is chosen as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee made the selection in recognition of his decades-long work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and East Asia. Kim's historic summit talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in June 2000, which eased tension on the Korean Peninsula, was a key factor in the committee's decision.

(Yonhap)

[Aphrodite]

Oct. 14


1903 -- The Joseon Dynasty closes Suminwon, an office overseeing overseas travel by Koreans.


1955 -- South Korea and Japan resume bilateral trade for the first time since Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. The countries normalized their diplomatic ties in 1965.


1993 -- "Seopyeonje," a film directed by Im Kwon-taek, wins awards for best director and best actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival.


2002 -- The 14th Asian Games end in Busan, South Korea's largest port city. South Korea finished second in the number of medals won.


(Yonhap)

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Oct. 15


1949 -- South Korea and Japan sign a trade cooperation agreement, the first official document inked between the two neighbors since the Korean Peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. The two nations normalized relations 16 years later in 1965.


1963 -- Retired Army Gen. Park Chung-hee is elected president in a close race with civilian leader Yoon Bo-sun. After seizing power in a 1961 coup, Park doffed off his military uniform and ran for president two years later. His iron-fisted rule ended on Oct. 26, 1979 when he was assassinated by his intelligence chief, Kim Jae-kyu.


1988 -- The Seoul Paralympic Games opens with 4,361 participants from 65 countries.


2001 -- President Kim Dae-jung holds summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Seoul. They discussed a fishing dispute, anti-terrorism measures, inter-Korean relations and other issues.


(Yonhap)

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Oct. 16

1945 -- Dr. Rhee Syngman returns home after decades of exile in the United States, two months after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II and the end of its colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula. Rhee was elected South Korea's first president three years later.


1999 -- A 160-member advance team of the South Korean Army's Evergreen Unit arrives in East Timor as part of U.N. peacekeeping operations.

East Timor was occupied by Indonesia in 1975 and became an independent state in 2002. Violence instigated by pro-Indonesia militias swept across the Southeast Asian country after a U.N.-monitored referendum approved a proposal for independence in 1999.

South Korea sent a total of 3,283 troops on eight separate occasions to the island nation, with each group serving on a six-month rotational basis. The last batch of 256 troops returned home on Oct. 23, 2003.


2000 -- South Korea and the U.S., at a regular military meeting in Washington, agree on the extension of the range of South Korean-made missiles to 300 kilometers.


2008 -- Crew members of a South Korean-flagged vessel are released after they were captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, sandwiched between Somalia and Yemen, on Sept. 10 that year. The boat carried 22 crew members -- eight South Koreans and 14 Burmese.


(Yonhap)