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Mun Se-gwang. McCune–Reischauer. Mun Segwang. Mun Se-gwang (26 December 1951 – 20 December 1974) was a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer who attempted to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung Hee on 15 August 1974. The assassination attempt resulted in the deaths of Park's wife, Yuk Young-soo, and a high school student, Jang ...
South Korea became the fourth adopter in Asia when television broadcasting began on 12 May 1956 with the opening of HLKZ-TV, a commercially operated television station. HLKZ-TV was established by the RCA Distribution Company (KORCAD) in Seoul with 186–192 MHz, 100-watt output, and 525 scanning lines.
The Government-General of Chōsen Building ( Korean : 조선총독부 청사 ; RR : Joseon-chongdokbu Cheongsa ), also known as the Japanese General Government Building and the Seoul Capitol, was a building located in Jongno District of Seoul, South Korea, from 1926 to 1996. The Government-General Building was constructed by the Empire of Japan ...
Opening. 12 September 1929. Closure. 31 October 1929. The Chōsen Exhibition ( Japanese: 朝鮮博覧会, Korean : 조선박람회) was held to mark the 20th anniversary of the Japanese colony in Korea. [1] It was held at Gyeongbokgung, Keijō ( Seoul ), Korea, Empire of Japan between 12 September 1929 and 31 October 1929. [2] It was attended ...
South Korea hosted the G-20 Summit in Seoul in November 2010, a year that saw South Korea and the European Union conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) to reduce trade barriers. South Korea went on to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Australia in 2014, and another with New Zealand in 2015. South Korea and Britain have agreed to extend ...
When Korea gained independence in 1945, the Chosun Ilbo came back into publication after a five-year, three-month hiatus. On 1 March 1999, Chosun Ilbo announced that starting the following day (2 March 1999), it would be switching to the horizontal left-to-right writing style already adopted by most other newspapers by the time, ahead of the ...
Blue House. / 37.5867; 126.9763. Cheong Wa Dae ( Korean : 청와대; Hanja : 靑瓦臺; lit. Cyan-tile Pavilion), also known as the Blue House in English, is a public park that formerly served as the presidential residence and the diplomatic reception halls of South Korea from 1948 to 2022. It is located in the Jongno district of the South ...
The Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty[ a] are state-compiled and published records, called Veritable Records, documenting the reigns of the kings of Joseon. Kept from 1392 to 1865, they comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to be the longest continual documentation of a single dynasty in the world. The records of the last two monarchs ...