Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

* 1902 – Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence fighter ( d. 1920 )

This 3 * 3 kneeling bow continued more than 250 years until 1896 when Korean Empire declared independence as a result of 1st Japan-Sino war.

* 1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.

* April 8 – Son Byong-Hi, Korean independence activist ( d. 1922 )

In 1909, independence activist An Jung-geun assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the Resident-General of Korea, for Ito's intrusions on the Korean politics.

No comment was made by Wilson on Korean independence, perhaps as a pro-Japan faction in the USA sought trade inroads into China through the Korean peninsula.

When he arrived and proceeded to meet his Russian colleague, An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist and independence activist, fired six shots at him.

However, the One-China Principle would apparently require that Taiwan formally give up any possibility of Taiwan independence, and would preclude any " one nation, two states " formula similar to ones used in German Ostpolitik or in Korean reunification.

On February 27, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1876 ; forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.

In New York there was Korean Methodist Church and Institute which worked as a Korean community and independence movement center.

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Because of North Korea's submission to Soviet pressures, and because of mass opposition to the lenient U. S. occupation of the mortal enemy Japan, North Koreans in this period denounced the United States and began to form a negative view of the U. S. However, several American ministers and missionaries remained active in this period, reminding Koreans, before they were uprooted by the communist regime, that American individuals could be very helpful to the cause of Korean independence.

The evaluation found Kim Jong-il appeared to pride himself on North Korea's independence, despite the extreme hardships it appears to place on the North Korean people — an attribute appearing to emanate from his antisocial personality pattern.

Russia continued to serve as the center for the Korean independence movement against Japan.

In 1919, the March First Movement for Korean independence was supported by Korean leaders who gathered in Vladivostok's Sinhanchon ( literally, " New Korean Village ") neighborhood.

The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

The foreign relations of South Korea ( officially the Republic of Korea ) are South Korean relations with other governments.

Some Koreans think of it as the earliest Korean state and of Dangun as the ancestor of Koreans, and from 1948 until December 1961, the Republic of Korea officially reckoned years by adding 2333 to the Common Era year.

The United States officially supports Korean reunification under a democratic government.

At the same time of the test North Korea tested two short range missiles ( reported a South Korean News Network YTN – not officially confirmed ).

In 1950 the U. S. Army began testing bacterial biowarfare on unwitting American civilians, and perhaps in Korea during the Korean War ( though the officially trained U. S. policy was plausible denial.

When Korean Empire came under Japanese rule in 1910, the name reverted to Joseon ( officially, the Japanese pronunciation Chōsen ).

The Korean Peninsula Cold War officially continues, as the " hot war " came to an end with an Armistice ( the Korean Armistice Agreement of July 27, 1953 ) resulting in a cease-fire and creation of a demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, rather than with a treaty of peace or of surrender.

Kim Jong-il is officially credited as the tower's designer ; however, interviews with former North Korean officials contradict this assertion.

Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il officially authored the definitive statement on Juche in a 1982 document titled On the Juche Idea.

* Fairchild C-119 Flying BoxcarThe C-119 Flying Boxcar ( officially called C-119 Packet ) was used extensively in the Korean War.

In November 2010, the South Korean Unification Ministry officially declared the Sunshine Policy a failure, thus bringing the policy to an end.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ( KCTU ) is a national trade union centre officially established in 1995.

His brother, Imperial Prince Ui died in 1955 and the Korean people officially considered this to be the end of the Royal line.

* Kim Il Sung, the first head of state of North Korea, is officially referred to by the North Korean government as 위대한 수령 translit.

* Kim Jong-Il, the former's son and successor, is officially referred to by the North Korean government as 친애하는 지도자 translit.

Saenuri has been very active in promoting the North Korean Human Rights Law, which, if passed, would officially condemn the use of torture, public executions and other human rights violations in North Korea.

The Korean Extension was officially started in the fall semester of the 2003 school year by Pastor Steve An.

However, the Catholic Church became the first Korean organization to officially recognize the value of using Hangul, and Bishop Berneux mandated that all Catholic children be taught to read it.

In May 2006, The Korea Times switched from the McCune-Reischauer system to the officially recognized Revised Romanization system for writing Korean place names.

The North Korean government has officially admitted abducting 13 Japanese citizens.

The KTX-II was officially renamed as KTX-Sancheon ( Hangul: KTX-산천 ) after the Korean name of the indigenous fish cherry salmon before the first units started commercial service on March 2, 2010.

The South Korean government, as written in hanja on the wooden structure, officially calls the landmark, Sungnyemun, () even though it has been more commonly known as Namdaemun () since the Joseon Dynasty.

lacked it — instead various vowel assimilations between the first and second syllables of words occurred in Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japonic.

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

The second incident occurred on 1 September 1983, during a period of heightened Cold War tension, when a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down a straying Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island, just west of Sakhalin Island.

During the 1970s and 1980s, North Korean abductions of Japanese and South Koreans occurred.

In 2000, " an event of historical importance " occurred, according to a live broadcast for the state-owned Korea Broadcasting System, as 78 North Korean girls and boys arrived at the Unification Church's cross-cultural " ice-breaker " event, where guests such as the minister of unification, Park Jae-Kyu, and the minister of culture, Park Jie Won were present.

Similar coinages occurred to a more limited extent in Korea and Vietnam – see Korean hanja.

The practice occurred all over the Korean battle lines and proved that integrated combat units could perform under fire.

These developments occurred as a result of the influence of the Chinese Army's involvement during the Korean War, as well as during the Sino-Soviet split when Kim Il-sung sided with Mao against Soviet de-Stalinization.

Dangun ascended to the throne, built the walled city of Asadal, situated near Pyongyang ( the location is disputed ) and called the kingdom Joseon — referred to today as " Old / Ancient Joseon " ( Korean: " Gojoseon ") so as not to be confused with the Joseon kingdom which occurred much later.

The most recent accident occurred in 1997, when Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747, crashed as it was attempting to land at the airport.

This chiefly occurred during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, though it has occurred during times of peace on the several U. S. military bases in the region since World War II.

The name refers to an event that occurred on March 1, 1919, hence the movement's name, literally meaning " Three-One Movement " or " March First Movement " in Korean.

The attack occurred 34 years after the Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War on 27 July 1953.

3, 600 fires were set, destroying over 1, 000 buildings and widespread looting occurred, especially of businesses owned by the Korean American community.

The first use of helicopters to evacuate combat casualties was by the United States Army in Burma during WW2, and the first dedicated use of helicopters by U. S. forces occurred during the Korean War, during the period from 1950 – 1953.

While popularly depicted as simply removing casualties from the battlefield ( which they did ), helicopters in the Korean War also expanded their services to moving critical patients to more advanced hospital ships once initial emergency treatment in field hospitals had occurred.

During " Operation Glory " which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were exchanged ; remains of 4, 167 US soldiers / Marines were exchanged for 13, 528 North Korean / Chinese dead.

Further investigations on the entire mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence indicate that the divergence of continental and Japanese black bear populations might have occurred when bears crossed the land bridge between the Korean peninsula and Japan 500, 000 years ago, which is consistent with paleontological evidence.

In 1894, Japan defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese war which occurred in the Korean Peninsula, and Korean cabinet was filled with reformists.

" One such major militarization of the corps occurred during World War II, in which the corps was militarized for WWII and the Korean War.

After three brutal rapes and an arson case in 2011, convictions in South Korean courts occurred.