Kore Tarihinde Bugün 3, 5, 6, 7 Agustos

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7 Agustos

7 Agustos 1990 -- Saglik Bakanligi, AIDS ile ilgili ülkede ilk raporu vermistir. AIDS virüsünü tasiyan 100 kisi oldugu belirtildi. 2006 Haziran sonlarinda ise bu rakam 4,227'ye ulasti. Tasiyicilardan 773'ü de ölmüstür.

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Aug. 4

1926 -- Soprano Yun Sim-deok and her lover, playwright Kim U-jin, commit suicide by jumping into the sea from a ship traveling between Japan and the southern part of the Korean peninsula. They were both 29.

Yun, born into a poor family in Pyongyang, became a music teacher with her gifted voice and passion for success. She was also the first Korean paid by the government to study in Japan.
Kim, a married man who was studying English literature in Japan at Waseda University, met Yun while participating in a student drama association there.


1949 -- Greece recognizes South Korea. A year earlier, South Korea was founded with the backing of the United States.


1964 -- The National Assembly approves a government plan to dispatch combat troops to Vietnam. It opened the way for 300,000 South Korean soldiers to fight alongside the United States during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975. Several thousand Koreans were killed in the conflict.


1998 -- Hyundai Group signs a joint investment agreement with North Korea that enabled the South Korean conglomerate to launch cruise tours to Mount Geumgang, a scenic resort area on North Korea's east coast, several months later.


2003 -- Chung Mong-hun, the head of the Hyundai Group, jumps to his death from his 12th-floor office in Seoul.

He was one of the central figures being tried for involvement in a scandal over Hyundai's secret payment of US$500 million to North Korea just before the 2000 inter-Korean summit. Following the political reconciliation, Hyundai expanded its business ties with North Korea, including a tour project to Mount Geumgang.


2008 -- Three South Korean climbers who went missing the previous week are found dead on the Himalayan K2, the world's second-highest mountain.

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Aug. 5

1952 -- President Syngman Rhee, 77, is re-elected for a second term. After finishing his graduate studies at Harvard and Princeton universities, he worked toward establishing Korea's independence from Japanese colonial rule and held a representative position in the Korean provisional government-in-exile in Shanghai. Rhee became the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and held the post until 1960, when he was forced to step down by a burgeoning pro-democracy movement. He died in Hawaii in 1965.


1953 -- South and North Korea begin repatriating prisoners of war through the truce village of Panmunjom.


1983 -- A Chinese airplane passes through the Flight Information Region of South Korea for the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War.


1987 -- Roh Tae-woo is elected president of the then ruling Democratic Justice Party.


1995 -- South Korea's first satellite is launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral in the United States.


2000 -- The heads of 46 South Korean news organizations visit North Korea at the invitation of its leader, Kim Jong-il. The unprecedented visit was made after a landmark summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in Pyongyang in June.


2001 -- Korea's Pak Se-ri and Kim Mi-hyun take first and second place respectively at the Weetabix Women's British Open, the last major event of the year's LPGA season.


2004 -- A four-day gathering of South Korean adoptees opens in Seoul, bringing together over 450 adoptees from 15 different nations. The gathering was the third of its kind after events in Washington D.C. in 1999 and in Oslo, Norway, in 2001.

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Aug. 6

1902 -- Kim So-wol, known as "the Koreans' poet," is born into an upper-class family in a mountain village in North Pyongan Province, now located in North Korea.

Kim married at 14, graduated from high school and went to Tokyo to attend college. After returning home, he began writing under the tutelage of his former teacher, Kim Eok.

Hounded by financial problems, he committed suicide in 1934, leaving behind 154 poems and essays.


1991 -- South and North Korea are simultaneously admitted into the United Nations. South Korea first sought to join the world body in 1975 but was blocked by the Soviet Union and China, which were ideological allies of North Korea. After establishing diplomatic ties with Seoul in the early 1990s, Moscow and Beijing shifted their policy and supported the simultaneous entry.


1997 -- A Korean Air Boeing 747 crashes into a hillside while trying to land in heavy rain at Guam International Airport. Only 28 of the 254 passengers survived.

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Aug. 7

1990 - In its first report on AIDS, South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare says the number of South Koreans infected with HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, reached 100. The cumulative number of HIV-positive South Koreans came to 4,227 as of the end of June 2006, including 773 who died.

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