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.

* Kim Yong Woon ( 2009 ).

Vice Chairman: Kim Yong Chun, Ri Yong Mu, Jang Song Thaek ( from June 2010 ), O Kuk Ryol ( from April 2009 )

Vice presidents: Yang Hyong Sop and Kim Yong Dae

Honorary vice-president: Kim Yong Ju

Members and Alternate Members of Political Bureau: Kim Jong-un, Kim Yong-nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Yong Chun, Jon Pyong Ho, Kim Kuk Thae, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae-bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kang Sok Ju, Pyon Yong Rip, Ri Yong Mu, Ju Sang Song, Hong Sok Hyong and Kim Kyong Hui, and since April 2012 Kim Jong Gak, Jang Song Thaek, Pak To Chun, Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Won Hong and Ri Myong Su ( members ), Kim Yang Gon, Kim Yong Il, Choe Ryong Hae, Ju Kyu Chang, Ri Thae Nam, Kim Rak Hui, Thae Jong Su, Kim Phyong Hae, U Tong Chuk, Pak Jong Sun, Kim Chang Sop and Mun Kyong Dok and since April 2012: Kwak Pom Gi, O Kuk Ryol, Ro Tu Chol, Ri Pyong Sam and Jo Yon Jun ( alternate members )

* The Snow Queen: A Korean drama that centers around the Anderson classic starring Hyun Bin and Sung Yu Ri as Han Tae Woong and Kim Bo-Ra, a mismatched yet heartwarming couple.

* Break Down ( EP ), a 2011 mini album by South Korean Kim Hyun Joong of SS501

* Kim reformer, a device reforming all carbonaceous substance most efficiently to produce syngas, invented by Dr. Kim, Hyun Yong

On 28 October, Ha Ji Won along with Kim Hyun Joong of SS501 acted as emcee at the 2011 K-Pop Super Concert held at Gwangalli Beach in Busan, which was broadcast on SBS on 6 November.

In 2012, she starred as a female North Korean Special forces officer instructor Kim Hang Ah in the TV series The King 2 Hearts co-starring Lee Seung Gi and also starred in the film As One as Hyun Jung-hwa co-starring Bae Doona.

* 316. Kim Hyun Jung-Separation With Her

* 412. Kim Hyun Jung-Disco Bus

* Animators: Kyoung Bae Lee, Myoung Gil Jang, Sun Joo Kim, Gee Dong Lee, Sung Sook Lee, Yong Nam An, Youn Gon O, Kyoung Suk Hwang, Hyun Ha Jin, So Ho Jang

* Assistant Animators: Yeon Bock Lee, Myoung Ja La, Kyoung Mee Pak, Jong Phil Won, Jung Mi Kim, Sung Hae Hong, Hae Ja Lee, Young Gue Song, Bock Ja Kim, Hyun Sook Hong, Myoung Hee Kim

In 1942, the Japanese Colonial Government of Korea arrested 33 Korean scholars of Korean language including three faculty members of Yonhi and prominent Korean language scholars, Choi Hyun Bae ( 최현배 ; 崔鉉培 ), Lee Yun Jae ( 이윤재 ; 李允宰 ), and Kim Do Yeon ( 金度演 ; 김도연 ) and other graduates of the school including Jung Tae Jin ( 정태진 ; 丁泰鎭 ) and Kim Yoon Kyung ( 김윤경 ; 金允經 ) for organizing the Joseon Language Society ( 조선어학회 ; 朝鮮語學會 ; now Korean Language Society ; 한글학회 ; 한글學會 ), studying Korean language, and attempting to publish a Korean language dictionary.

As tributes to their efforts, Yonsei University has constructed a monument called ' Yonsei Hangultap ' ( A Monument for Korean Language by Yonsei ; 연세 한글탑 ; 延世 한글塔 ), a monument for Yun Dong Ju ( 윤동주 시비 ; 尹東柱 詩碑 ), and bust statues of Choi Hyun Bae and Kim Yoon Kyung in its Seoul Campus.

The mid-season arrival of Williamson, along with Scott Sauerbeck, Jeff Suppan and Byung Hyun Kim was expected to boost an already strong Boston team to the 2003 World Series.

* Kim Hyun Joo-Actress

Kim Hyun Joo ( born April 24, 1977 ) is a South Korean actress.

Being called ‘’ Pretty woman ’’ of Korea, Kim Hyun Joo is recognized with her brightly smile and a fresh face.

In 1997, Kim Hyun Joo was accepted to Dankook University, film major.

In 1998, Kim Hyun Joo had her first drama Only Love, her acting was praised by her co-stars and directors.

In 1999, chance kept coming to Kim Hyun Joo when she was cast as female lead in Days of Youth with Jang Dong Gun and Hwang Su Jung.

Jang Dong Gun was the one who got the most complaints, while the bubbly, innocent but unhappy character which played by Kim Hyun Joo received so many love by viewers.

And Kim Hyun Joo was slowly recognized by viewers.

Amid these growing problems, Kim Jong Il began reworking the DPRK's political system to accommodate his own style of governing.

The Workers ' Party of Korea maintains a monopoly on political power and Kim Jong-il remained the leader of the country, until 2011, ever since he first gained power following the death of his father.

In 1979, mass anti-government demonstrations occurred nationwide, in the midst of this political turmoil, Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the director of the KCIA, Kim Jae-kyu, thus bringing the 18-year rule of military regime to an end.

News footage or intentional political records that captured murders, executions or suicides, including those of Nick Berg, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu, Paul Johnson, Kim Sun-il, Eugene Armstrong, John F. Kennedy, Daniel Pearl, Inejiro Asanuma, Lee Harvey Oswald and Yitzhak Rabin, and the suicides of Ricardo Cerna, and Budd Dwyer have been posted on the Internet.

The direct descendants of Abbott and Hamilton Gray include John Kimble Hamilton (" Kim ") Abbott, a political commentator and lobbyist and a WWII Royal Canadian Airforce pilot in the infamous " Demon Squadron ".

Its last mayor was Kim Dalgaard Poulsen, a member of the Venstre ( Liberal Party ) political party.

Kim had his political rights restored in 1979 after Park was assassinated.

However in 1980, Kim was arrested and sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy in the wake of another coup by Chun Doo-hwan and a popular uprising in Gwangju, his political stronghold.

Many thought Kim Dae-jung's political career was effectively over when he took a hiatus from politics and departed for the United Kingdom to take a position at Clare Hall, Cambridge University as a visiting scholar.

According to a 2004 Human Rights Watch report, the North Korean government under Kim was " among the world's most repressive governments ", having up to 200, 000 political prisoners according to U. S. and South Korean officials, and no freedom of the press or religion, political opposition or equal education: " Virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life is controlled by the government.

Nekromantix frontman Kim Nekroman describes: " We are all different people and have different political views.

In North Korea, manse was used to wish long life for Kim Jong-il, and for the political principles of his father, Kim Il-sung.

The Juche Idea, sometimes spelled Chuch ' e (), is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country's development.

Myers goes so far as to propose that Juche is merely a sham developed to extol Kim Il-sung as a political thinker alongside Mao Zedong.

Notable political alumni include former Prime Ministers of Australia, Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd, current Premier of New South Wales Barry O ' Farrell, Patricia Hewitt, and Kim Edward Beazley.

Ecotage is mentioned in Mars trilogy of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson as a means of protest shown by the Red political party.

Since its articulation in 1998 by South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the policy resulted in greater political contact between the two States and some historical moments for the Korean peninsula ; the two Korean summit meetings in Pyongyang ( June 2000 ) which broke ground with several high-profile business ventures, as well as brief meetings of separated family members.

This was confirmed in a forum on the SBS Insight television program on 2 May 2006, which specifically dealt with the Labor Party's political struggles, where some community members voiced their concerns about being disillusioned with Kim Beazley, and a lack of understanding of the values and policies for which he and the party stood.

Several Asian political figures have expressed criticism of the idea of Asian values, including former President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Lee Teng-hui, and former President of the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ), Kim Dae Jung.

With the rise of super PACs, the jet-fueled political action committees that can take unlimited contributions, many campaign finance watchdogs have focused on the hundreds of millions of dollars being raised this presidential election cycle. Barker, Kim.

Two of the country's best known political leaders, Kim Young-sam, a Presbyterian, and Kim Dae-jung, a Roman Catholic, subscribe to Minjung theology.