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Today In Korean History

January 20

1919 -- Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon Dynasty, dies.


1968 -- Thirty-one North Korean commandos infiltrate Seoul to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. The North Korean troops were stopped 300 meters from the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae. Twenty-eight were killed and one was captured, while two others are believed to have returned to the North across the border. The only survivor, Kim Sin-jo, shouted in a nationally televised news conference that "I came here to cut the throat of Park Chung-hee!"


1974 -- South Korea and West Germany sign a visa waiver accord.


2005 -- A South Korean maritime police boat crosses the inter-Korean border on the East Sea on a search-and-rescue mission after a South Korean cargo vessel sank in North Korean waters. Only four of the sunken vessel's 18-member crew survived.


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Today In Korean History

January 21

1919 -- Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon Dynasty, dies.


1968 -- Thirty-one North Korean commandos infiltrate Seoul in an attempt to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. The North Koreans were stopped 300 meters from the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae. Twenty-eight were killed, one was captured, and two others were believed to have returned to the North across the border. The only survivor, Kim Sin-jo, shouted in a nationally televised news conference that he had come "to cut the throat of Park Chung-hee."


1974 -- South Korea and West Germany sign a visa waiver accord.


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Today In Korean History

January 22

1992 -- Kim Yong-soon, a close confidant of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who handles international affairs at the ruling Workers' Party, meets Arnold Kanter, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, in New York to discuss the communist country's nuclear problems. It was the first high-level meeting on the subject between the two countries.


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Today in Korean history

January 24

1886 -- The state publishing organ of the Joseon Dynasty (1392~1910), Bakmunguk, launches weekly Hanseongjubo under the initiative of young modernists who wanted to accept Western civilization. The publication was a revival of their first magazine, Hanseongsunbo, which was abolished in 1883 due to the infiltration of conservative forces into their office.


1930 -- Cadres of the Korean provisional government in Shanghai launch a political party, the Korea Independence Party on the nationalist and democratic platform.

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