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Today in Korean history
Today in Korean history
Aug. 29
1910 -- Korea loses its sovereignty after being forced to sign an annexation
agreement with Japan. The Korean Peninsula remained under Japanese colonial rule
until 1945.
1949 -- Luxembourg recognizes the Republic of Korea as a sovereign state.
1972 -- A South Korean Red Cross delegation arrives in the North Korean capital
of Pyongyang for talks on separated families and other humanitarian issues. The
two Koreas set five major tasks to help reunite families separated during the
1950-53 Korean War.
1987 -- Park Soon-ja, head of a South Korean arts and crafts company, is found
dead along with 31 other people, in what seemed to be a suicide pact, at the
company's factory in the city of Yongin. Park was alleged to be the leader of a
doomsday cult.
1994 -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest producer of computer-memory
chips, succeeds in developing the world's first 256-megabit dynamic random access
memory (DRAM) chips.
2003 -- The National Assembly passes the Labor Standard Act, based on the
introduction of a five-day workweek. The 40-hour work week was partly introduced
in 2004 for businesses and public institutions with more than 1,000 employees.
The system was expanded to government offices, police and military personnel as
well as companies with more than 300 employees on July 1, 2005.
2005 -- The Institute for Research in Collaborationists Activities, a
non-governmental organization, discloses a list of 3,095 Korean elite who
collaborated with Japan's colonial government between 1909 and 1945 on the 95th
anniversary of the Joseon Dynasty's fall to Japan. The collaborators came from
the government, the judiciary and police authorities, the Cabinet, the media, and
the arts and religious sectors.
2007 -- The Taliban free 12 captives of the 23 South Koreans they abducted 40
days earlier. The South Korean Christians were traveling unescorted from the
Afghan capital, Kabul, to the southeastern city of Kandahar on a short-term
medical aid mission. The militant Afghan group demanded Seoul withdraw its
200-member reconstruction units from the war-torn country, then killed two male
hostages -- team leader and pastor Bae Hyung-kyu and volunteer Shim Seong-min --
while the negotiations were under way. Two others were freed earlier, while the
remaining group of seven were released several days later.
(END)
Aug. 29
1910 -- Korea loses its sovereignty after being forced to sign an annexation
agreement with Japan. The Korean Peninsula remained under Japanese colonial rule
until 1945.
1949 -- Luxembourg recognizes the Republic of Korea as a sovereign state.
1972 -- A South Korean Red Cross delegation arrives in the North Korean capital
of Pyongyang for talks on separated families and other humanitarian issues. The
two Koreas set five major tasks to help reunite families separated during the
1950-53 Korean War.
1987 -- Park Soon-ja, head of a South Korean arts and crafts company, is found
dead along with 31 other people, in what seemed to be a suicide pact, at the
company's factory in the city of Yongin. Park was alleged to be the leader of a
doomsday cult.
1994 -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest producer of computer-memory
chips, succeeds in developing the world's first 256-megabit dynamic random access
memory (DRAM) chips.
2003 -- The National Assembly passes the Labor Standard Act, based on the
introduction of a five-day workweek. The 40-hour work week was partly introduced
in 2004 for businesses and public institutions with more than 1,000 employees.
The system was expanded to government offices, police and military personnel as
well as companies with more than 300 employees on July 1, 2005.
2005 -- The Institute for Research in Collaborationists Activities, a
non-governmental organization, discloses a list of 3,095 Korean elite who
collaborated with Japan's colonial government between 1909 and 1945 on the 95th
anniversary of the Joseon Dynasty's fall to Japan. The collaborators came from
the government, the judiciary and police authorities, the Cabinet, the media, and
the arts and religious sectors.
2007 -- The Taliban free 12 captives of the 23 South Koreans they abducted 40
days earlier. The South Korean Christians were traveling unescorted from the
Afghan capital, Kabul, to the southeastern city of Kandahar on a short-term
medical aid mission. The militant Afghan group demanded Seoul withdraw its
200-member reconstruction units from the war-torn country, then killed two male
hostages -- team leader and pastor Bae Hyung-kyu and volunteer Shim Seong-min --
while the negotiations were under way. Two others were freed earlier, while the
remaining group of seven were released several days later.
(END)
