Kore Tarihinde Bugün 24, 25 Ekim

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Oct. 24

1974 -- Journalists at the Donga Ilbo, a major South Korean newspaper, launch a free press campaign, denouncing government censorship and surveillance of the press under the military-backed administration of then President Park Chung-hee. The campaign resulted in the firing of nearly 180 of the paper's reporters and photographers.


1994 -- Cho Chang-ho, a South Korean taken prisoner during the Korean War, returns home via China after 43 years of captivity in North Korea. He was the first Korean War prisoner to escape from the communist North.


2002 -- South Korea and Chile sign a free trade agreement.


2003 -- The South Korean Defense Ministry announces that 1,186 soldiers from the South Korean Army were held prisoner in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War.


2005 -- North Korea says it will participate in the six-party talks on ending the dispute over its nuclear weapons program in November as scheduled. It adds that its commitment to work toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula remains unchanged.


2008 -- South Korea, China, Japan and 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agree to create an US$80 billion joint fund to fight a regional financial crisis.

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October 26

1895 -- The Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) introduces the Gregorian calendar, replacing the lunar calendar.


1950 -- South Korean and U.S.-led U.N. troops advance to the border with China during the 1950-53 Korean War. About one million Chinese soldiers later intervened, temporarily turning the tide of the war in North Korea's favor. The war ended with an armistice.


1979 -- President Park Chung-hee is assassinated by his intelligence chief Kim Jae-kyu, ending the president's 18-year rule. Park's presidency featured rapid economic development but also an authoritarian rule that delayed the development of the nation's democracy.


1996 -- North Korean Kim Kyeong-ho's family defects to South Korea.


2004 -- Two square-shaped holes in a two-layer wire fence, which forms the southern boundary of the 4-kilometer-wide Demilitarized Zone bisecting the two Koreas, are found near Cheorwon, a town near the center of the 248 kilometer-long border running roughly along the 38th parallel.


2009 -- Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk is sentenced to a suspended jail term for embezzling research funds and breaching bioethics laws.


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October 27

1883 -- The Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) concludes a trade agreement with Germany.

1905 -- The Korean National Red Cross is established.

1979 -- Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting head of state, one day after President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by his intelligence chief Kim Jae-kyu.

1987 -- A national referendum approves a bill to revise the Constitution by introducing direct presidential elections.

1987 -- South Korea succeeds in test-firing its "Cheonma" land-to-air missile.

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