Actions such as an attempted assassination of ROK president Park Chung-Hee in Seoul failed, and Kim publicly disclaimed any responsibility for them.

His reaction to any opposition was marked with brutality, for instance allowing the police at Masan and Seoul to open fire on the strikers, killing over 100, and brutally murdering a high school student named Kim Ju-Yeol ( 김주열 ).

Although Kim returned to Seoul, he was banned from politics and imprisoned in 1976 for having participated in the proclamation of an anti-government manifesto and sentenced for five years in prison, which was reduced to house arrest in 1978.

Kim was again put under house arrest upon his return to Seoul, but resumed his role as one of the principal leaders of the opposition.

The Wikileaks data reveals that the US Embassy in Seoul described Kim as " South Korea's first left-wing president " to the American government on his day of death.

Kim died on 18 August 2009 at 13: 43 KST, at Severance Hospital of Yonsei University in Seoul.

An interfaith state funeral was held for former President Kim Dae-jung on 23 August 2009 in front of the National Assembly Building, with a procession leading to the Seoul National Cemetery where he was interred according to Catholic traditions.

* Kim Sung-soo, Biography of a Korean Quaker, Ham Sok-hon, Seoul: Samin Books, 2001, 360 pp. ISBN 978-89-87519-49-4

Further, Kim Sung-ho, director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, told lawmakers in a closed parliamentary session in Seoul that " Kim appeared to be recovering quickly enough to start performing his daily duties.

In 1999, Watanabe was spotted at a Seoul activity honoring Asia's greatest boxing champions, alongside Fighting Harada, Jung-Koo Chang, Gushiken, Sot Chitalada, and former rivals Chul-Ho Kim and Pooltarat, among others.

The centre cooperates closely with the Carter Center in Atlanta, the Kim Dae Jung Library in Seoul and the Crisis Management Initiative in Helsinki.

Kim was born in Gangwon province, South Korea, 100 miles east of Seoul, the youngest of five children.

Kim Seong-kon, an English professor at Seoul National University, attributed these mistakes to an overreliance on a Korean-English dictionary and a lack of understanding of culture and natural collocations.

* From Line-item to Program Budgeting, John Kim, Seoul, 2007

It was reported that a sculpture, Charity, had been sold for £ 1. 5m to a Korean, Kim Chang-Il, who intended to exhibit it in his department store's gallery in Seoul.

Unlike his predecessor Kim Dae-jung who travelled to Pyongyang by plane, Roh travelled from Seoul to Pyongyang overland by car on October 2.

The garrison also provides installation support for an outlying U. S. Army housing area called Hannam Village ( located in Hannam-dong, Seoul ), K-16 Air Base, Camp Kim, Sungnam Golf Course, and Camp Coiner.

* Dong-no Kim, John B. Duncan, Do-hyung Kim ( 2006 ), Reform and Modernity in the Taehan Empire ( Yonsei Korean Studies Series No. 2 ), Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company

Ji-Won Kim ( Hangul: 김지원, Hanja: 金知元 ) ( born 6 August 1959 in Seoul ) was a South Korean boxer who was an unbeaten world champion in the super bantamweight division.

In the past, the Japan Socialist Party had favored the Kim Il-sung regime in Pyongyang, and in the early 1990s it still refused to recognize the 1965 normalization of relations between Tokyo and Seoul.

Kim Gi-su noted that only 50 years before, Seoul and Busan of Korea were metropolitan centers of East Asia, dominant over underdeveloped Japanese cities ; but now, in 1877, with Tokyo and Osaka westernized, Seoul and Busan looked like vestiges of the ancient past.

When Kim Gwang-jip returned to Seoul, the Queen Consort took special interest in Huang's book and commissioned copies be sent out to all the ministers.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

Kim was succeeded by Raymond " Ray " Plzak until the end of 2008.

Carl Schimel of Kim Craftsmen Jewelry was at the forefront of this style.

It changed again one year later since the President Kim Young-sam was blamed by the citizen for the IMF.

The current Executive Producer is Kieran Roberts who was once a Producer of " Emmerdale " and the Producer is ex-Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson, who took over from Kim Crowther in summer 2010.

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

During this time, he was romantically involved with Kim Gordon, who would later go on to form Sonic Youth.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

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.

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.

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.

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

* One of the earliest appearances of Kim Philby as a character in fiction was in " Gentleman Traitor " by Alan Williams in 1974.

Richard Kim Milford ( February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988 ) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer.

* 1987 – Kim Hyung-jun, Korean singer, dancer, and actor ( SS501 )

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

* 1986 – Kim Oh-Sung, South Korean footballer

* 1987 – Kim Kibum, South Korean singer and actor ( Super Junior )

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

* 1976 – Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator

Master Heon Kim demonstrating Gungdo, traditional Korean archery ( Kuk Kung ), 2009

* 1976 – Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer ( Turbo )

* 1978 – Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress

* 1957 – Kim Kap-su, Korean actor

After Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, Kim issued a pardon.

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.

* 1889 – Kim Jwa-jin, played an important role in the Korean Anarchist Movement ( d. 1930 )

* 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader ( b. 1941 )

* 1960 – Kim Ki-duk, Korean filmmaker

* 1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.

* 1987 – Kim Kyu Jong, Korean singer ( SS501 )

* 1978 – Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress

According to Samguk Sagi, in 637, Kim Yu-sin, a Korean general of Silla rallied his troops to defeat rebels by lofting a kite with a straw man which looked like a burning ball flying to the sky.

* 1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader ( d. 2011 )

* 1988 – Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor