Katō fell back to Haejungchang, a rice storage, built cover from rice pouches and kept the Koreans at bay with arquebuse fire.

Illegal North Koreans caught in China were often deported back to North Korea where most of them were tortured, killed, or sent to a reeducation camp.

He did not consult or gain approval of Congress but did gain the approval of the United Nations ( UN ) to drive back the North Koreans and re-unite that country in terms of a rollback strategy

Nor did it stop the North Koreans from pushing back the Americans and the Republic of Korea Army ( ROK ), which had been badly mauled in the opening days of the invasion, even further.

Mugunghwa ( Rose of Sharon ) has been loved by Koreans for thousands of years, as far back as the Gojoseon era.

36 of 37 Americans got decisions in boxing in the 1984 Olympics in the United States, and the South Koreans had vowed to get back at the American media for being terribly wronged in 1984, and Nardiello and Jones were targets of the South Korean scorecards of the time.

At 04: 00 the decision was made to withdraw the New Zealanders to prevent their loss, however following reports that the South Koreans were making a stand they were ordered back up the valley the next morning with the Middlesex accompanying them as protection.

Many Koreans migrated to California and Hawaii, and brought back firsthand accounts of modern business and governmental practices that they sought to adapt to Korean conditions.

With Chinese assistance, the Koreans turned back the invaders, but with heavy loss of men and cultural heritage.

When the Koreans captured the spying fish ship from Japan, the Goryeo court sent it to their overlord, the Yuan emperor Toghan Temur, who then sent the Japanese fishers back to Japan.

As refugees must remain in hiding from Chinese authorities who will send them back, North Koreans flee again to Southeast Asia where they seek asylum or resettlement to safe countries such as South Korea or the United States.

Twenty-five generations later, around 30, 000 Koreans look back to Jang Sunnyong as the grandfather of their clan.

Some Soviet Koreans were sent to North Korea to act as agricultural advisers, but they forced back as Kim Il-Sung did not trust them.

The Koreans then took the treasures from the Japanese wrecks and sailed back to Yeosu.

Katō replied by heavy arquebus fire behind a ' rice wall ' and forced the Koreans back to a nearby hill.

As vassal of Ming China, the Koreans at first refused talks entirely, and in April and July 1591 refused demands that Japanese troops be allowed to march through Korea.

The Koreans capitulate at the sight of the huge multi-oared ships and offer tribute.

During World War II, Koreans at home were forced to support the Japanese war effort.

The island's population has grown to 546, 695 according to the 2002 census, 83 % of whom are ethnic Russians, followed by Koreans at about 30, 000 ( 5. 5 %), Ukrainians and Tatars, Yakuts and Evenks.

Lockwood thinks that it is very likely that the U. S. did use insects dropped from aircraft during the Korean War to spread diseases, and that the Chinese and North Koreans were not simply engaged in a propaganda campaign when they made these allegations, since the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense had approved their use in the fall of 1950 at the " earliest practicable time ".

MacArthur, in a bold but risky move, ordered an amphibious invasion well behind the front lines at Inchon, cutting off and routing the North Koreans and quickly crossing the 38th Parallel into North Korea.

In early October 1274, the Battle of Bun ' ei began with a combined force of Mongols and Koreans seizing Tsushima, and then attacking Kyūshū, landing at Hakata Bay.

Although the advent of modern refrigeration — including kimchi refrigerators specifically designed with precise controls to keep different varieties of kimchi at optimal temperatures at various stages of fermentation — has made this seasonality unnecessary, Koreans continue to consume kimchi according to traditional seasonal preferences.

The North Koreans, ignorant of what the gesture meant, were at first told by the prisoners that it was a " Hawaiian Good Luck Sign ", similar to " hang loose ".

The other nationalities included Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, Belarusians, Koreans and others ; Germans at the time of independence formed about 8 % of the population, the largest concentration of Germans in the entire Soviet Union.

File: Zaitokukai rally at Shinjuku on 24 January 2010. JPG | Members of the Japanese far right Zaitokukai demonstrating in 2010 against the right of " foreigners " ( Koreans in Japan ) to vote.

The next day, the Koreans approached 13 Japanese ships at Jeokjinpo as reported by the intelligence.

This drama was a heated topic at the time since it overlapped with the time when the Koreans were offended by Japan declaring that Dokdo Island was theirs.

Korean Americans that were naturalized citizens numbered at 530, 100, while 443, 680 Koreans in the U. S. were not American citizens.

According to The Record of Bergen County, the U. S. Census Bureau has determined the county ’ s Korean American population – 2010 census figures put it at 56, 773-has grown enough to warrant language assistance during elections, and Bergen County's Koreans have earned significant political respect.

The slow reload time of the Korean matchlocks aided the Americans, who were armed with superior Remington rolling block carbines, to make it over the walls ; the Koreans even ended up throwing rocks at the attackers.

From then on, many Koreans studied Chan in China, and upon their return established their own schools at various mountain monasteries with their leading disciples.

In a Times video debate, she said of the North Korean government: "... you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting ; you know it's like high school girls with nuclear weapons — they just want some attention from us, you know?

The population of Huangs in China and Taiwan was estimated at more than 29 million in 2000 ; it was also the surname of more than 2 million overseas Chinese, 4. 3 million Vietnamese ( 5. 1 %), and an estimated 1 million Koreans ( The 2000 census of South Korea revealed it was the surname for 644, 294 South Koreans, ranked 17th ).

The text was written in Classical Chinese, which was used by literate Koreans at that time.

In response to the food crisis of the mid-1990s and at the request of the North Koreans, Mercy Corps began work in 1996.

The Japanese who had been living there before mostly repatriated to Japan, but at least one-third of Koreans were refused repatriation ; stuck on the island, they and their descendants became known as the Sakhalin Koreans.

In the early 1990s, 18 of 90 top bosses of Inagawa-kai were ethnic Koreans.

Large numbers of Koreans, including some from North Korea that had come via South Korea, have been immigrating ever since, putting Korea in the top five countries of origin of immigrants to the United States since 1975.

Admiral Yi knew that he could not attack the Japanese in a spearhead assault because he knew that the Japanese could direct arquebus fire down on the Koreans from the top of the cliffs.

Koreans often say " one shot ", a challenge to everyone in the group to down their glass in one gulp.

The Argylls had laid down yellow air-recognition panels correctly in accordance with that day's planning, but the North Koreans imitated similar panels on their own positions in white.

Because of this natural fit between the provincial boundaries and the " real world ," most of the provincial boundaries and names have survived in one form or another down to today, and most Koreans are keenly aware of the regional and dialect distinctions that still exist.

The MDL goes through the conference rooms and down the middle of the conference tables where the North Koreans and the United Nations Command ( primarily South Koreans and Americans ) meet face to face.

Meanwhile, as the 20th Army veered to the west as part of the Chinese main effort against Seoul, the Chinese 118th Division continued its secondary advance down the Kapyong Valley, closely pursue the retreating South Koreans.

On April 15, 1969, the North Koreans again triggered a period of tension when it shot down a U. S. Navy EC-121 Warning Star flying in international airspace over the Sea of Japan.

A store owned by Koreans was shut down by police for selling imported merchandise of questionable origin in 2002, with 33 workers detained.

When the Koreans began to lob mortars down at the Japanese, the Japanese began to lose even more men.