* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor ( d. 2003 )

Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya hosted the 2003 World Cup.

" The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Emergence of South Carolina's State Park System, 1933-1942 ," South Carolina Historical Magazine Volume: 104 # 2 2003, pp 101 +.

* 2003 – David Bale, South African – born activist ( b. 1941 )

These include the Suva sports stadium, built for the South Pacific Games of 2003.

* 2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

The Colts also returned to the playoffs in 2003 and 2004 with 12 – 4 records and AFC South championships.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

* 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

* 1912 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician ( d. 2003 )

Transport directly to and from South Korea has been possible on a limited scale from 2003 until 2008, when a road was opened ( bus tours, no private cars ).

After insisting on bilateral negotiations with the United States, it agreed to six-party talks between itself, the United States, South Korea, China, Russia, and Japan in August 2003.

During 1990 – 2003, Pakistan sustained its historical lead as the second most urbanized nation in South Asia with city dwellers making up 36 % of its population.

& Puerta, Pablo ( 2003 ): Description of the earliest fossil penguin from South America and first Paleogene vertebrate locality of Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina.

It opened on 28 January 2003, and became current on 1 March 2006 ; as of 30 November 2011, 20 States have signed and ratified the Protocol, and 15 others have signed, but not yet ratified it ( including Canada and South Africa ).

The total trade volume between South Korea and Russia in 2003 was 4. 2 billion US dollars.

In 2003 the Cricket World Cup was held in South Africa, first time it was held in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2003 a joint venture called KCC Europe between businessman Jan Holterman in Berlin and the North Korean government brought the commercial Internet to North Korea.

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

Some reviewers have identified similarities between the style and narrative of the 2003 Korean film Natural City and Dick's novel, as well as Blade Runner.

In 2003, South Korean Unification Church members started a political party, " The Party for God, Peace, Unification, and Home.

Palaeoethnobotanists have found evidence of the cultivation of millet in the Korean Peninsula dating to the Middle Jeulmun pottery period ( c. 3500 – 2000 BC ) ( Crawford 1992 ; Crawford and Lee 2003 ).

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

* Both sides agreed to cooperate to replace North Korea's graphite-moderated reactors with light water reactor ( LWR ) power plants, to be financed and supplied by an international consortium ( later identified as the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization or KEDO ) by a target date of 2003 ;

* Tube ( film ), a 2003 Korean film

A pit-house at the Daecheon-ni site yielded carbonized rice grains and radiocarbon dates indicating that rice cultivation may have begun as early as the Middle Jeulmun Pottery Period ( c. 3500-2000 BC ) in the Korean Peninsula ( Crawford and Lee 2003 ).

As a result of the new policy, the Kaesong Industrial Park was constructed in 2003 just north of the de-militarized zone, with the planned participation of 250 South Korean companies, employing 100, 000 North Koreans, by 2007.

In an August 2008 issue of the Japanese newsweekly Shūkan Gendai, Waseda University professor Toshimitsu Shigemura, an authority on the Korean Peninsula, claimed that Kim Jong-il died of diabetes in late 2003 and had been replaced in public appearances by one or more stand-ins previously employed to protect him from assassination attempts.

It has more recently been used in the film adaptation ( Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker ) of Anthony Horowitz's novel Stormbreaker, The Bourne Identity and it was reproduced with Korean lyrics for the movie Collateral, the song has also been used during the performances of extreme freestyle water ski jumpers, the song later became the theme song for the TV Show TRL Italy since 2003 until 2005.

Less controversial, however, was the SASR's involvement in the boarding of the North Korean freighter MV Pong Su in 2003.

The parent body of the Quadrantids was recently tentatively identified ( in a paper by Peter Jenniskens ) as the minor planet 2003 EH < sub > 1 </ sub >, which in turn may be the same object as the comet C / 1490 Y1 2003 EH < sub > 1 </ sub > Is the Quadrantid Shower Parent Comet that was observed by Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers some 500 years ago.

* ... ing, a 2003 Korean film

* Tongil Korea Net: Ridiculous Are Western Media ’ s Talk about DPRK ’ s “ Brinkmanship Tactics ” Commentary by Korean Central News Agency, February 22, 2003.

* Lane, Peter J., Steel for Bodies: Ammunition Readiness During the Korean War, Master's Thesis: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College ( 2003 )

For four consecutive years, from 2000 to 2003, Samsung posted net earnings higher than five-percent ; this was at a time when 16 out of the 30 top South Korean companies ceased operating in the wake of the unprecedented crisis.

He served as the minister of Culture and Tourism in the South Korean Government from 2003 to 2004.

Chung Mong-hun ( September 14, 1948 – August 4, 2003 ) was the 5th son of Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the South Korean Hyundai conglomerate.