Kore Tarihinde Bugün 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 Agustos

[nilamman]

Aug. 11

661 -- China's Tang Dynasty (618-907) launches another series of attacks against Pyongyang, the capital of the kingdom of Goguryeo established in 37 B.C. and incorporating territory in what is now North Korea and northeastern China.

Tang forces, under the leadership of Su Dingfang, besieged Goguryeo's capital in the winter of that year. While previous attempts to destroy Goguryeo failed at the border, food and strategic assistance from the southern kingdom of Silla allowed Tang forces to reach the capital city.

Known as the Three Kingdoms period, the Korean Peninsula during this era was divided by Goguryeo in the north, Silla in the southeast and Baekje in the southwest.

In an effort to unify the peninsula and to aggrandize its territory, Silla formed an alliance with the Tang Dynasty, destroying Goguryeo and bringing an end to its 770-year history.

Goguryeo's cultural legacy was later adopted by the Goryeo Kingdom (918-1392), which succeeded Silla as ruler of the peninsula and took its name from the ancient kingdom.


1903 -- The Joseon Dynasty signs a trade agreement with Denmark.


1980 -- Legendary swimmer Cho Oh-ryun, who won four gold medals in the Asian Games in the 1970s, swims across the strait between the South Korean port city of Busan and the Japanese island of Tsushima.


1992 -- The nation's first satellite, Wooribyeol I, blasts off from French Guiana, opening Korea's space age. The satellite was used to conduct scientific experiments, such as taking photographs of the earth's surface, and broadcasting a Korean program.

(Yonhap)

[nilamman]

Aug. 12

1966 - In an editorial of its main newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea promulgates the policy of "juche," meaning self-reliance, claiming ideological independence from its allies --the Soviet Union and China -- at that time.


1971 - South Korea's National Red Cross suggests to its North Korean counterpart a joint campaign to locate separated family members in both parts of the Korean Peninsula. The two sides met a year later to discuss the project but failed to reach an agreement. The family reunion project materialized decades later, in a 2000 summit meeting between President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who agreed to regularly hold the humanitarian event.


1993 - In a move to fight corruption, President Kim Young-sam puts into effect the "real-name financial system" banning transactions under phony or borrowed names and requiring that all individuals use their real names to open bank accounts or purchase stock. The previous non-regulation policy provided a haven for money laundering and tax evasion.


1999 - Workers from South and North Korea play a friendly soccer match in the North's capital, Pyongyang.

(Yonhap)

[nilamman]

Aug. 13

1935 -- "The Evergreen," a novel by Shim Hun depicting the lives of an educated couple trying to "enlighten" farmers, wins a literary prize presented by the Dong-Ah Ilbo newspaper. The novel, based on real-life experience, portrays the impoverished Korean countryside under Japanese colonial rule in the early part of the 20th century, a time when Japanese occupiers expropriated land and rice from farmers.

The young couple dedicate themselves to the "enlightenment movement," which sought to educate ordinary Korean citizens and encourage them to demand their rights by speaking out against Japanese colonial rule.


1959 -- Japan signs an agreement with North Korea to repatriate Koreans living in its territory to the communist country. The North, needing to increase its diminished labor force after the Korean War, sought to present itself as a hospitable home to its nationals overseas.

The first group of some 975 people leaves Japan for North Korea in December. The voluntary repatriation continues until November 1962, when the agreement expired. Ultimately, a total of 77,288 Koreans in Japan voluntarily went to the North.

The agreement was later renewed, but the deteriorating economic situation in North Korea stopped people from moving there after the 1970s.


1994 -- Samsung Electronics Co. announces development of the world's first 256-megabit DRAM computer chips. Now the world's No.1 computer memory chipmaker, Samsung is also credited with the development of 1-gigabit DRAM chips and 4-gigabit DRAM process technology.


2007 -- Two female South Koreans from a 23-member aid group abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan are freed. Two male members of the group, including its 42-year-old leader Bae Hyung-kyu, are executed.

On July 19, a bus carrying 23 South Korean volunteers, mostly women in their 20's and 30's, is hijacked by Taliban militants en route from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar. The remaining 19 hostages are freed in late August after Seoul announces it will pull out troops from the country by the end of the year and ban all missionary work there.

(Yonhap)

[shinhye]

Bilgi için tesekkürler.

[Belgüzar]

Paylasim için tesekkürler.

[nilamman]

Aug. 14

1961 -- South Korea establishes diplomatic relations with Gabon.


1965 -- South Korea's parliament ratifies the normalization agreement signed between Seoul and Tokyo. Under the treaty, South Korea received grants and loans in return for abandoning its demand for compensation for Japan's colonization of Korea between 1910 and 1945. But critics said the agreement did not provide adequate compensation for South Koreans forcibly taken to Japan to serve as Japanese soldiers during World War II.


2005 -- The national football squads of the two Koreas hold a friendly match in Seoul as part of events to celebrate Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule.


2009 -- Former Samsung chairman and South Korea's richest man, Lee Kun-hee, is sentenced to a suspended three-year prison term and a 110 billion won fine for illegal bond transactions. He is found guilty of tax evasion and breach of trust.

(Yonhap)

[nilamman]

Aug. 15

1945 -- Korea is liberated from Japan's colonial rule, which began in 1910. On the same day, Yeo Un-hyung (1886-1947), a left-leaning nationalist, sets up a national foundation preparation committee.


1948 -- The government of the Republic of Korea, or South Korea, is established.


1953 -- The South Korean government moves the country's capital back to Seoul from Busan, a port city 453 kilometers southwest of Seoul. The government made the switch to Busan after North Korea started the Korean War in June 1950.


1974 -- Moon Se-kwang, a 23-year-old Korean-Japanese man, attempts to assassinate then President Park Chung-hee at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule. Park was not injured, but his wife, Yook Young-soo, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Moon was arrested, sentenced to death and executed.


1995 -- The South Korean government starts to demolish a building used as the Japanese governor-general's office during Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula.


2000 -- The first reunions of separated families from South and North Korea since the division of the peninsula in 1948 are held in Seoul and the North's capital Pyongyang. The reunions were arranged in accordance with an agreement at the historic inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang in June 2000.


2005 -- South and North Korea hold a reunion of 40 separated families via video for the first time.

(Yonhap)

[fatosss]

Bilgi ve paylasim için tesekkür ederim. Emegine saglik.

[KoreanStyle]

Hazirlanan bilgiler için tesekkür ederiz. Emeginize saglik.

[FurenDorina]

Bilgiler için tesekkür ederiz. ^^