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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the test was a warning to enemies that have been threatening the country's security, KCNA state news agency said. North Korea leader says longest ICBM test ...
Korea dealt with a pair of Japanese invasions from 1592 to 1598 (Imjin War or the Seven Years' War). Prior to the war, Korea sent two ambassadors to scout for signs of Japan's intentions of invading Korea. However, they came back with two different reports, and while the politicians split into sides, few proactive measures were taken.
The 2002 FIFA World Cup jointly held by Korea & Japan. South Korea national football team reaches the semi-finals for the first time in Korean football history. 9 December. The National Women's History Exhibition Hall opens in Seoul, making it the first women's history museum in South Korea. It later moves to Goyang.
South Korea's capital and largest city is Seoul, the world's second largest metropolitan city. Korea has a history of 5,000 years, [2] with its foundation dating back to 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun.
South Korea's transport ministry said on Wednesday that it would remove the concrete embankment installed at Muan International Airport following last month's Jeju Air crash, its deadliest ...
North Korea has come under international condemnation after South Korea and the United States said Pyongyang had dispatched 11,000 troops to Russia for deployment in the war in Ukraine, with 3,000 ...
In 2008 the map was considered as an image for one of the 100,000-won banknotes, which would have been the highest-denomination South Korean banknote to date.However, the map of Daedongyeojido did not portray the internationally disputed Dokdo Islands, and the ensuing public debate in Korea over whether the map on a banknote should be changed to include them made the image too controversial ...
Seoul ranks seventh in the world in terms of the number of Fortune 500 transnational companies headquartered there. [29] It is also the world's second most expensive city, ahead of Tokyo and Hong Kong (ranked 3rd and 4th, respectively). [30] On 29 October 2022, a crowd crush ended up killing at least 156 people, including at least 19 foreign ...