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2002 Sep 1 |
Typhoon Rusa, the worst typhoon to hit South Korea in 40 years, left at least 119 people dead. Links: South Korea, WeatherAsia, Hurricane 
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2002 Sep 2 |
Tens of thousands of South Koreans heaved shovels to clear mud and debris from homes devastated by Typhoon Rusa, the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40 years. The death toll from South Korea's worst typhoon in 40 years rose to 113 as soldiers led a desperate search for 71 people still missing after the weekend devastation. Links: South Korea
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2002 Sep 14 |
South and North Korea have set a date to begin mine clearing and establish a military hotline during reconstruction of railway links across their fortified border divided for 50 years. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2002 Sep 19 |
North Korea announced it had made the city of Sinuiju on its border with China a "special administrative region," a move South Korean media said was the first step towards creating a new economic zone. The project was soon mothballed after its first governor, Yang Bin, was jailed in China for tax evasion. Yang Bin was formally sentenced in July 2003 for 18 years, and was fined for 2.3 million renminbi. Links: China, North Korea, South Korea
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2002 Sep 28 |
In South Korea torches from 44 diverse lands converged and rival South and North Korean teams marched together as Asia kicked off its biggest festival of sport. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2002 Nov 1 |
In South Korea Kim Hong-up, the 2nd son of President Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to jail and fined on graft charges, closing one chapter in scandals that have marred the ageing democracy leader's final year in office. Links: South Korea
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2002 Nov 4 |
In South Korea 15,000 civil servants went on strike protesting against both the proposal to shorten the working week and a government ban on public sector unions. Links: South Korea
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2002 Nov 5 |
In South Korea some 120,000 auto workers (KCTU) struck Hyundai and 165 other workplaces as unions escalated protests over working conditions ahead of December's presidential elections. Links: South Korea, Labor
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2002 Nov 14 |
Diplomats from the United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan decided to cut off the shipments of oil to North Korea in response to its violation of a 1994 nuclear agreement. Links: USA, Japan, North Korea, EU, South Korea
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2002 Dec 14 |
Tens of thousands of South Koreans railed against the U.S. military and mourned two girls killed by American soldiers in a road accident. Links: USA, South Korea
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2002 Dec 19 |
In South Korea elections Roh Moo-hyun (56) had 48.9 percent and Lee Hoi-chang 46.6 percent. Turnout among the nation's 35 million eligible voters was 70.2%. Links: South Korea
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2002 |
The freighter Turubong 1 sailed from the North Korean port of Chongjin. Somewhere in the Sea of Japan off the coast of the quiet village of Sakaiminato, its crew dumped 522 pounds of amphetamines overboard for retrieval by smugglers. In 2006 Japanese police made their first arrests in the case, seven Japanese and a South Korean intermediary. Authorities said North Korea was involved as a government. Links: Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Drugs
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2002 2005 |
North Korean animators produced parts of a South Korean cartoon show featuring Pororo, a purple, handbag-carrying penguin. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Cartoons
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2003 Jan 23 |
South and North Korea agreed to peacefully resolve the international standoff over North Korea's nuclear programs after Cabinet-level talks. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Nuclear
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2003 Feb 14 |
President Kim Dae-jung said South Korea's government helped arrange a $200 million payment to North Korea before a summit in 2000. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Feb 18 |
In Daegu, South Korea, a fire raged through two packed subway trains after a man lit a container of flammable liquid and tossed it, killing 196 people and injuring 145. In August the perpetrator was sentenced to life in prison. Links: South Korea, Tragedy, Fire
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2003 Feb 25 |
In South Korea Roh Moo-hyun took power as president. Links: South Korea
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2003 Feb 26 |
South Korea's parliament approved Goh Kun, a former mayor of Seoul, to become PM in the newly installed government of Pres. Roh Moo-hyun. Links: South Korea
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2003 Mar 1 |
In South Korea some 100,000 older people held a pro-US rally in Seoul. Hours later thousands of young people held an anti-US rally. Links: USA, South Korea
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2003 Mar 21 |
North Korea condemned the US-led war on Iraq and said American war games in South Korea were pushing the divided peninsula "to the brink of a nuclear war." Links: Iraq, USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Mar 26 |
In South Korea a late night fire in a grade school dormitory killed eight children. Links: South Korea, Fire
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2003 Apr 9 |
The US said it will move its main military base in South Korea out of the capital as soon as possible. Links: USA, South Korea
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2003 Apr 30 |
South and North Korea agreed in Cabinet-level talks to peacefully resolve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Nuclear
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2003 May 1 |
Thousands of people in Indonesia, South Korea and the Philippines celebrated May Day by protesting for higher wages, better hours and political change. Links: Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea
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2003 May 12 |
North Korea declared that the 1992 agreement with South Korea to keep the Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons was nullified, citing a "sinister" U.S. agenda. Links: USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2003 May 13 |
South Korea's military deployed soldiers and trucks to the world's third-busiest port to alleviate a crippling five-day truckers' strike. Links: South Korea, Labor
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2003 May 14 |
Pres. Bush met for the first time with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun; both leaders said they were united in seeking a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons. Links: South Korea, Nuclear, BushGW
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2003 Jun 5 |
The United States agreed to pull its ground troops away from the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. Links: USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Jun 14 |
North and South Korea connected railways at their heavily armed border in a symbolic ceremony linking the two countries for the first time in more than a half-century. North Korea still had 7 miles of tracks to complete before trains could run. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Jun 22 |
Thousands of workers at South Korea's oldest bank ended a five-day strike by agreeing to a deal that guaranteed wage hikes and job security. Workers objected to the sale of the state bank to Shinhan Financial Group. Links: South Korea, Labor
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2003 Jun 29 |
Transportation across South Korea was disrupted as railway workers opposed to a government privatization plan went on strike for a second day. Links: South Korea, Labor
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2003 Jul 3 |
Tens of thousands of South Korean auto and metal workers staged a half-day walkout to demand a 40-hour workweek and better working conditions. Most people worked half a day on Saturdays. Links: South Korea, Labor
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2003 Aug 4 |
Chung Mong-hun (54) a top executive of the Hyundai conglomerate, whose business spearheaded reconciliation efforts with North Korea but ended up tangled in debt and scandal, plunged to his death from his office window. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Suicide
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2003 Sep 12 |
Typhoon Maemi, the most powerful ever to ever hit South Korea, flipped over a floating hotel, twisted massive cranes, killed at least 117 people. The main port of Busan reported $1.3 billion in damage. Links: South Korea
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2003 Sep 15 |
More than 100 South Korean tourists flew to North Korea's capital on the first commercial flight between the two countries since they were divided nearly six decades ago. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Oct 5 |
Ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met ahead of a leaders' summit on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, with leaders of China, India, Japan and South Korea joining the bloc to sign trade and security accords. Links: China, India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, ASEAN
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2003 Oct 18 |
South Korea pledged to send more troops to Iraq but did not specify how many or whether they would be combat troops. Links: Iraq, South Korea
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2003 Oct 21 |
In South Korea a tourist bus plummeted into a gorge, killing at least 17 people and injuring 15 others. Links: South Korea, Bus Crash
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2003 Oct 26 |
In South Korea a race car crashed into the audience, killing three people and injuring six. Links: South Korea
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2003 Nov 9 |
In South Korea labor activists and students battled riot police in one of the most violent protests in years. Dozens were injured. Protesters, estimated by police at 35,000 and by the labor confederation at 100,000, rallied in central Seoul to protest damages lawsuits that managers have filed against union leaders accused of staging illegal strikes. Links: South Korea
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2003 Nov 28 |
In South Korea opposition leader Choe Byung-ryol began Day 3 of his hunger strike against Pres. Roh Moo-hyun and corruption allegations against his former aides. The standoff has paralyzed Parliament and derailed deliberation on hundreds of bills. Links: South Korea
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2003 Nov 28 |
Pres. Roh Moo-hyun said that he decided to send troops to Iraq hoping it would encourage the US to continue to work to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. Links: Iraq, USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Nov 30 |
In western Iraq guerrillas killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush. Gunmen shot and killed 2 South Korean electricians and wounded 2 others as they drove apparently to a power transmission plant they were working at in Tikrit. Links: Iraq, USA, South Korea
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2003 Dec 4 |
South Korea's parliament, for the first time in 49 years, overrode a presidential veto to clear the way for an independent investigation into corruption allegations against three former aides of President Roh Moo-hyun. Links: South Korea
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2003 Dec 12 |
In South Korea Park Jie-won, a confidant of former Pres. Kim Dae-jung, was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail for taking $12.5 million in bribes from a major conglomerate and illegally remitting money to North Korea ahead of a 2000 inter-Korean summit. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2003 Dec 17 |
South Korea agreed to send 3,000 troops to Iraq in 2004. Links: Iraq, South Korea
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2003 Dec 22 |
South Korea and Japan began negotiations on establishing a free-trade agreement between the East Asian economic powerhouses. Links: Japan, South Korea
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2003 Dec 22 |
The South Korean government dispatched hundreds of soldiers to farms to help slaughter chickens and ducks in an effort to contain a contagious bird flu spreading throughout the country. Links: South Korea, Bird Flu
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2003 Dec 23 |
The South Korean Cabinet approved a plan to send 3,000 troops to the northern oil town of Kirkuk as early as April. Links: Iraq, South Korea
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2003 |
Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas, purchased the Korea Exchange Bank of South Korea. In 2006 Lone Star engaged in a deal to sell the bank for a $4.5 billion profit. Under public outrage Lone Star offered to donate some $104 million to the government of South Korea. Links: USA, South Korea, M&A, Texas, Big Money
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The South Korean economy went into recession. Links: South Korea, Economics
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2003 |
Oh Yeon Ho turned his South Korean Ohmy News website into a for profit firm. In 2006 his website averaged 700,000 visitors and 2 million page view per day. Links: South Korea, Internet
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2004 Jan 4 |
South Korean prosecutors, investigating corruption in the bidding on government contracts by an affiliate of IBM Corp., indicted 48 government and company officials. Links: South Korea
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2004 Jan 10 |
In South Korea prosecutors arrested six lawmakers and the head of a conglomerate in a broadening investigation of corruption allegations. Links: South Korea
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2004 Jan 22 |
The Chinese New Year (Lunar Year 4702) ushered in the Year of the Monkey. In Korea the event is called Solnal and in Vietnam it is called Tet. The Chinese New Year marked a traditional time of settling debts. Migrant workers in the Chinese construction industry were reportedly owed over $40 billion in back pay. Links: China, Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea, Migrant
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2004 Jan 27 |
Global health officials listed 6 countries with confirmed cases of H5N1 avian flu. These included Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. Links: China, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, South Korea, Bird Flu
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2004 Jan |
In Seoul, South Korea, 9 former prostitutes sued 8 brothel operators for $842,000 in overdue wages and compensation for suffering. 7 of the girls were minors and said they were forced into sexual slavery. Links: South Korea, Labor, Sex
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2004 Feb 11 |
South Korean scientists reported that they had cloned human embryonic tissue cells. Links: South Korea, BioTech
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2004 Feb 28 |
It was reported that 70% South Koreans had high-speed Internet connections. Links: South Korea, Internet
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2004 Feb |
South Korea ratified its 1st free trade agreement. Its partner was Chile. Links: Chile, South Korea
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