For instance, South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries sent PPS mobile generators to Cuba for the country's power grids.

South Korea's major conservative party, the Saenuri Party or 새누리당, changed its form throughout its history.

During the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, Hewitt survived a five-set match against South Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee that was played over two days.

By the mid to late-1970s some parts of the capitalist world, including South Korea, were creating new industries based around computers, electronics, and other advanced technology in contrast to North Korea's Stalinist economy of mining and steel production.

An official at South Korea's seismic monitoring center confirmed a magnitude-3. 6 tremor felt at the time North Korea said it conducted the test was not a natural occurrence.

By comparison, South Korea's population is expected to stabilize at 52. 6 million people in 2023.

To date, North Korean efforts to improve relations with South Korea to increase trade and to receive development assistance have been mildly successful, but North Korea's determination to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles has prevented relations with Japan or the United States from improving.

Largely because of these debt problems but also because of a prolonged drought and mismanagement, North Korea's industrial growth slowed, and per capita GNP fell below that of the South.

North Korea's first Internet café opened in 2002 as a joint venture with South Korean internet company Hoonnet.

The project includes US Verizon Communications, Chinese firms China Telecom, China Netcom and China Unicom, South Korea's Korea Telecom and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom.

South Korea's subsequent history is marked by alternating periods of democratic and autocratic rule.

Shortly after Roh's inauguration, the Seoul Olympics took place, raising South Korea's international recognition and also greatly influencing foreign policy.

Geographically, South Korea's land mass is approximately.

The Nakdong is South Korea's longest river ( 521 kilometers ).

The movement of air masses from the Asian continent exerts greater influence on South Korea's weather than does air movement from the Pacific Ocean.

On June 23, 2012 South Korea's population touched 50 million as the 26th country to reach the mark.

South Korea's political elite starting from the 1970s, including presidents Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan, and Roh Tae Woo, have come largely from the Gyeongsang region.

Because about 70 % of South Korea's land area is mountainous and the population is concentrated in the lowland areas, actual population densities were in general greater than the average.

As early as 1975, it was estimated that the density of South Korea's thirty-five cities, each of which had a population of 50, 000 or more inhabitants, was 3, 700 people per square kilometer.

Throughout the 1980s until the mid 1990s, South Korea's economic prosperity as measured in GDP by PPP per capita was still only a fraction of industrialized nations.

South Korea's separate annual economic aid to North Korea has historically been more than twice its ODA.

It was estimated that over two-thirds of South Korea's manufacturers spent over half of the funds available for facility investments on automation.

South Korea's real gross domestic product expanded by an average of more than 8 percent per year, from US $ 2. 7 billion in 1962 to US $ 230 billion in 1989, breaking the trillion dollar mark in 2007.

This strategy was particularly well suited to that time because of South Korea's poor natural resource endowment, low savings rate, and tiny domestic market.

The automobile industry was one of South Korea's major growth and export industries in the 1980s.

As he was beginning his first term in April 1817, the rumored position of American envoy to South America became reality.

In August 2006, at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Stephen Lewis, the United Nations special envoy for AIDS in Africa, closed the conference with a sharp critique of South Africa's government.

In 1837, threatened by a possible Russian invasion of South Asia via the Khyber and Bolān Passes, a British envoy was sent to Kabul to gain support of the Emir, Dost Mohammed.

People in attendance included high-ranking leaders in of the CCP and the PLA, former party first secretary Zhang Junjiu, China South Industries Group Corporation CEO Xu Bin, the Bank of China chairman Xiao Gang, as well as a diplomatic envoy from Pakistan.

The envoy ( led by John Powell ) was blown off-course from South America to England and took the opportunity to claim the island for the Kingdom of England.

A North Korean envoy for the United Nations reported that any North Korean citizen caught watching a South Korean film may result in that person being sent to a labour camp.

* 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.

The Roh administration succeeded in overcoming regionalism in South Korean politics, diluting the collusive ties between politics and business, empowering the civil society, settling the Korea-United States FTA issue, continuing summit talks with North Korea, and launching the high-speed train system, KTX.

At the 2009 G-20 London summit, U. S. President Barack Obama called South Korea " one of America's closest allies and greatest friends.

* June 13 – South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North-South presidential summit.

* Opposition against Apartheid in South Africa and worldwide grows to a mass international condemnation of racial segregation policies comes to a peak by December 1989 in the Springbok summit when SA President de Klerk grants clemency to imprisoned ANC activist Nelson Mandela who was released in February 1990.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

In April 2008, a review summit of five heads of state — Presidents Mbeki of South Africa, Wade of Senegal, Bouteflika of Algeria, Mubarak of Egypt and Yar ' Adua of Nigeria — met in Senegal with a mandate to consider the progress in implementing NEPAD and report to the next AU summit to be held in Egypt in July 2008.

The government also pursued the expansion of cooperation among the nations of South Asia, bringing the process — an initiative of former President Ziaur Rahman — through its earliest, most tentative stages to the formal inauguration of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) at a summit gathering of South Asian leaders in Dhaka in December 1985.

He named it for the beautiful winding River Wye, noted for its sinuosity, whose source is near that of the Severn, rising almost at the summit of Plinhimmon, a mountain in Wales, it forms the boundary between the shores of Brecon and Radnor in South Wales, ere it enters Herefordshire, England, and thence flowing through this county, Ross and Monmouth, falls into the Severn near Chepstow.

Longer routes to the summit go via the Back Table, a lower area of Table Mountain to the South of the main plateau.

The 360 degree view from the summit of the mountain encompasses about 1 / 10 of New South Wales ' area or 80, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 31, 000 sq mi ).

In Bouterse ’ s delegation that visited a South American summit, two other members apart from Bouterse, had a criminal drug record: former military Etienne Boerenveen and Hans Jannasch.

The highest point in Chatham is the summit of South Baldface, with an elevation of above sea level.

His Chief of Staff, Park Ji-Won, was sentenced to twelve years in prison in 2003 for, among other charges, his role in the Hyundai payment to North Korea for the North – South summit.

South of the summit lies a second and larger alpine plateau, Bigelow Lawn, at to elevation.

* Computer generated summit panoramas North South West to Adirondack Group Index

To buy time, Kun tried to negotiate with the Allies, meeting the South African Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts at a summit in Budapest in April.

* Computer generated summit panoramas North South Index

The South Country is home to a series of six difficult peaks, namely Mount Phillips, Comanche Peak, Big Red, Bear Mountain, Black Mountain, and Schaefers Peak, as well as Trail Peak, which is popular for its relative ease, its nearness to Beaubien, and the wreckage of the crash of a B-24 bomber in 1942 near its summit.

* Computer generated summit panoramas North South.

South of the main summit there are a series of minor summits that are completely inconspicuous from the west but appear as a series of " needles " from the east.