At nineteen he was a member of the national team for the Seoul Olympics, where they came fourth, the best result an Australian senior men's basketball team has achieved in Olympic competition.

Graf then defeated Sabatini 6 – 3, 6 – 3 in the gold medal match at the Olympic Games in Seoul and achieved what the media had dubbed the " Golden Slam ".

After the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit announced that it had achieved agreement on a Seoul Development Consensus, The Financial Times editorialized that " Its pragmatic and pluralistic view of development is appealing enough.

Daejeon achieved what originally appeared by midseason at least, to be a highly unlikely qualification for the playoff phase of the K-League following a 1-0 win over Suwon which ensured a superior goal differential to FC Seoul, with whom Daejeon finished equal on points.

At the 2004 World Single Distance Championships in Seoul he achieved the silver medal at this distance, only allowing Jeremy Wotherspoon to be faster.

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

Seoul even froze its budget for a short while.

The Kukkiwon has its own unique physical building that contains the administrative offices of Kukkiwon ( World Taekwondo Headquarters ) in Seoul, South Korea and is the system of taekwondo.

Goguryeo reached its zenith in the 5th century, when King Gwanggaeto the Great and his son, King Jangsu, expanded the country into almost all of Manchuria and part of inner Mongolia, and took the present-day Seoul from Baekje.

KAL 007 had strayed over the Soviet Union on 1 September 1983 on its way from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea.

Israel opened its embassy in Seoul in April 1968, which was closed by the Israeli government in February 1972.

Accordingly, the KRA secured of the land in Gwacheon area on the southern outskirts of Seoul, and began its construction in 1984 till 1988.

The school, reputed for its international orientation, has partnerships with the best universities all over the world, such as Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Seoul National University, and University of Peking

This body was supposed to be chaired by the immediate former president ; its expansion to eighty members, broadened functions, and elevation to cabinet rank made it appear to have been designed, as one Seoul newspaper said, to " preserve the status and position of a certain individual.

In Seoul ( Cho 2008 ), approximately 80 % of its residents live in apartment complexes which comprise 98 % of recent residential construction.

Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice that of New York and eight times greater than Rome, though slightly less than Paris.

Smaller cities have no districts, whereas districts in Seoul and six Metropolitan Cities are treated as a city in its own right.

Following the restoration of the capital of the Republic of Korea to its President and before the Seoul area was free of enemy activity, General Marquat, completely disregarding his own safety, toured the region by vehicle to obtain first-hand information vital to planning effective anti-aircraft installations necessary to forestall surprise enemy air attacks.

Conversely, in 2004 the South Korean government charged the Korean High Speed Rail Construction Authority, a public entity, to construct its high speed rail line, 412 km from Seoul to Busan, in two phases.

After a short period of time, however, he was appointed as the commander of the Seoul Hunryeonwon ( a military training center ) and was later transferred to a small county, to be its military magistrate.

A heavy-duty runway was constructed at Seoul Municipal Airport in October 1952, but logistical difficulties kept the C-124 from fulfilling its airlift potential.

After liberation and the foundation of two Korean governments, Gyeonggi Province and its capital Seoul were separated, with partial regions of Gyeonggi Province being incorporated into Seoul thereafter.

It is in contact with of cease-fire line to the north, of coastline to the west, Gangwon Province to the east, North Chungcheong Province and South Chungcheong Province to the south, and has Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, situated in its center.

The Gyeongbu Line with its high-speed parallel line, running between the two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, is by far the most heavily travelled line.

This version of the song is also called Sin Arirang ( Shin ; " new ") or Gyeonggi Arirang, after its provenance, Seoul, which was formerly part of Gyeonggi Province.

In March 2000, the company legally became known as SBS, changing its corporate name from Seoul Broadcasting System ( 서울방송그룹 ).

SBS began trial transmissions on its television and radio channels on December 1, 1990 in Seoul.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

In 1972, the first formal summit meeting between Pyongyang and Seoul was held, but cautious talks did not lead much of anywhere and relations between the two Koreas continued down the path of hostility.

The humanitarian issue of reuniting separated families was dealt with first, and in September 1985, families from both sides of the border made cross visits to Seoul and Pyongyang in a historic event.

The first tram line in Seoul started operation between Seodaemun and Cheongnyangni in December 1898.

The first SIGGRAPH Asia conference was held in Singapore from the tenth to the thirteenth of December 2008 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre ; the second one in Yokohama, Japan in the period from 16 December to 19 December 2009 at Pacifico Yokohama ; and the third in Seoul, Korea in the time period from 15 December to 18 December 2010 at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center Seoul.

The Blessing ceremony was first held in 1961 for 36 couples in Seoul, South Korea by the Moons shortly after their own marriage in 1960.

The pre-production testing model was unveiled in Seoul in September 2010, when the first of 30 units were delivered to South Korean government agencies for field testing.

On November 20, 2007, Sampras lost the first of three exhibition matches in Asia against Roger Federer in Seoul, Korea.

After the Olympics, the Park was converted into racing facilities named Seoul Race Park and the first race was held on September 1, 1989.

* 1973-Services by Billy Graham attract four and a half million people in six cities of Korea ; first All-Asa Mission Consultation convenes in Seoul, Korea with 25 delegates from 14 countries

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.

Sejong, for the first time in Korean history, had his astronomers create a calendar with the Korean capital of Seoul as the primary meridian.

* SBS Championship, the first event of the PGA Tour season, played in Hawaii and sponsored by Seoul Broadcasting System

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), the Japanese occupied Seoul by May 1592, and within three months of invading reached Pyongyang along with large numbers of Korean collaborators who at first viewed the Japanese as liberators from the corrupt aristocracy.

Apart from being a critical success, Sopyonje was also a success at the box office, becoming the first domestic film to draw over a million viewers in Seoul alone.

His first tournament in the Far East was the Seoul Open.

The name " Gyeongin " is formed from the first characters in the names " Gyeongseong " ( the Korean form of the former Japanese name for Seoul ) and " Incheon.

These trains reduced travel times below the best pre-WWII travel times for the first time, connecting Seoul and Busan in 6 hours 10 minutes at a top speed of.

The line was among the first in South Korea to be electrified with the 25 kV / 60 Hz AC catenary system, when two tracks over the between Seoul and Iksan entered service on August 15, 1974, for the Seoul Subway Line 1.

A Honam Railway from Seoul to Mokpo was first proposed in 1896 by a French company.

* October 4-Wilfredo Vazquez wins the first of three world titles by knocking out WBA world Bantamweight champion Chan-Yong Park in ten rounds at Seoul, South Korea.

His first episcopal assignment was to Korea and Japan ( the Seoul Episcopal Area ), where he served for twelve years.