It is well-known throughout Korea as an important seafood market.

* Jeonju bibimbap 비빔밥, a traditional local food, is well-known across South Korea.

Other K-Pop concerts in 2011 in the United States include the 2011 KBS Concert at the New York Korea Festival, the 2011 K-Pop Masters Concert in Las Vegas as well as the Korean Music Wave in Google, which was held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California featuring some well-known K-Pop idols.

In Korea, where aristocrats held power and wealth, the gentry concept was well-known, especially due to the numerous cultural exchanges with China, which was famed for its gentry.

Another well-known rivalry is with neighbour South Korea.

Park Kyung-ni was a really famous novelist, who wrote the most well-known novel, Toji ( 토지, The Land ) consisting of 16-volume story, in Korea.

* Dongdaemun Market, one of the most well-known wholesale and retail shopping places in Korea, surrounds the area near Jongno 5-ga Station, Dongdaemun Stadium and Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station.

The following year he started his extremely successful career in TV dramas, which made him well-known throughout Korea.

Anyang University is a well-known university in Korea.

A retreat nearby taking the name of the town, Cheongpyeong is also the most well-known holy ground of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in Korea.

* 1993: Best Actress award for Libaas in North Korea

* 2007 Korea Visual Arts Festival: Best Actress ( Tazza: The High Rollers )

* 2006 Korea Best Dresser Swan Awards: Best Dresser, Movie Actress category

* 2006: Korea Best Dresser Swan Awards-Best Dresser, TV Actress category

* 2004, Best Actress ( Moon So-ri ) at the Grand Bell Awards, South Korea

* 2003 Women in Film Korea Awards-Best Actress ( A Good Lawyer's Wife )

* 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.

* 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ( d. 1949 )

In June 1950, Kim Il-sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea.

Fearing that communist Korea under a Kim Il Sung dictatorship could threaten Japan and foster other communist movements in Asia, Truman committed U. S. forces and obtained help from the United Nations to counter the North Korean invasion.

In North Korea, Kim Il-sung created a highly centralized and brutal dictatorship, according himself unlimited power and generating a formidable cult of personality.

Again, through election, its second leader, Kim Young-sam, became the fourteenth president of Korea.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 1927 – Kim Young-sam, 14th President of South Korea

Korean scholar Kim Yong Woon claims that Japan was a tributary of ancient Korea, and Emperor Keitai was the younger brother of a Korean King.

* Kim Jong-il's Birthday ( North Korea )

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In North Korea, Kim Il-sung was named " eternal president " following his death and the presidency was abolished.

However, the symbolic role of a Head of State is generally performed by Kim Jong-un, who as the leader of the party and military, is the most powerful person in North Korea.

In Asia, Stalin fostered relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea, and his rule served as a model for their newly formed respective governments.

Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

Post – Cold War research in Soviet Archives has revealed that the Korean War was begun by Kim Il-sung with the express permission of Stalin, though this is disputed by North Korea.

* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

* 1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

The Anglican Church of Korea has made a 1965 translation of the BCP in Korean and called it " gong-do-gi-do-mun " meaning common prayers.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

Most Ibanez guitars were made for Hoshino Gakki by the FujiGen guitar factory in Japan up until the mid-to-late 1980s and from then on Ibanez guitars have also been made in other Asian countries such as Korea, China and Indonesia.

However, from the very beginning Stalin made it clear that the Soviet Union would avoid a direct confrontation with the U. S. over Korea and would not commit ground forces even in case of some major military crisis.

That same year in 1984, North Korea again drifted towards the Soviet Union after Kim visited Moscow during a grand tour of the USSR ( his first trip to Moscow since 1966 ) as well as Eastern Europe ( he made public visits to East Germany, Czechlosvakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia ).

The woldo was continually in use for the military in Korea with various modifications made over the decades.

On April 4, 2006, Clemens made an insulting remark when asked about the devotion of Japanese and South Korean fans during the World Baseball Classic: " None of the dry cleaners were open, they were all at the game, Japan and Korea ".

The government made many efforts for cultural development: the National Museum of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art were all constructed during this time.

In 2010, South Korea made a strong economic rebound with a growth rate of 6. 1 %, signaling a return of the economy to pre-crisis levels.

From Roh Tae-woo's administration to Roh Moo Hyun's administration, South Korea sought to establish an American partnership, which has made the Seoul – Washington relationship subject to some strains.

Spam products currently being sold in Korea are made with more high-quality ingredients than other countries as Korean manufacturer took advantage of the name which gained its popularity during and after Korean War as a smuggled or leaked ration and improved it over time as the country became richer.

The committee's 447 page report, made public on November 29, 1977, reported on plans by the National Intelligence Service ( South Korea ) ( KCIA ) to manipulate American institutions to the advantage of South Korean government policies, overtly and covertly.

Israel ( 1960s ) and North Korea ( 2000s ) are also thought to have developed stocks of nuclear weapons, and made the political decision to refrain from openly acknowledging them to the present time.

Chile, Denmark, Iceland, Korea, and Lebanon all made their Winter Olympic debut at these Games.

In Korea, it is called aekjeot or jeotgal, and is used as a crucial ingredient in many types of kimchi ( usually from myoelchi, anchovy or kanari which is made from sand lance ), both for taste and fermentation.

The world's first known movable-type system for printing was created in China around 1040 A. D. by Bi Sheng ( 990 – 1051 ) during the Song Dynasty ; following that, the first metal movable-type system for printing was made in Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty ( around 1230 ).

A potential solution to the linguistic and cultural bottleneck that held back movable type in Korea for two hundred years appeared in the early 15th century — a generation before Gutenberg would begin working on his own movable-type invention in Europe — when King Sejong the Great devised a simplified alphabet of 24 characters ( hangul ) for use by the common people, which could have made the typecasting and compositing process more feasible.

In November 1905, following the Russo-Japanese War, Japan – Korea Treaty of 1905 was made between the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Korea, making Korea a Japanese protectorate.

Prior to the beginning of negotiations, the Japanese allegedly made the Taft-Katsura Agreement with the U. S. in July 1905, which agreed to Japanese control of Korea, in return for American dominance in the Philippines.

The first major shipment of CONEXes, containing engineering supplies and spare parts, was made by rail from the Columbus General Depot in Georgia to the Port of San Francisco, then by ship to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Korea, in late 1952 ; shipment times were almost halved.

Like several other nuclear powers, but unlike China, India and North Korea, the United States has never made a no first use pledge, maintaining that pledging not to use nuclear weapons before an opponent would undermine their deterrent.