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See also: | Other events in 1957 Years in South Korea Timeline of Korean history 1957 in North Korea |
Events from the year 1957 in South Korea .
Skin Food (Korean: 스킨푸드) is a South Korean skincare and cosmetics manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Seoul.
Han Duck-soo is a South Korean diplomat, economist, and politician who served as acting president of South Korea from 14 to 27 December 2024 and the 48th prime minister of South Korea from 2022. Since 27 December 2024, Han has been suspended from his presidential and prime ministerial powers following his impeachment by the National Assembly of Korea.
Kim Jung-nam is a South Korean former football player and manager.
Kim Soo-hyun is a South Korean actor. One of the highest-paid actors in South Korea in 2020, his accolades include five Baeksang Arts Awards, two Grand Bell Awards and one Blue Dragon Film Award. He has been featured by Forbes in their Power Celebrity 40 and 30 Under 30 Asia lists. He was also selected as Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year.
Kim Ji-sung was a South Korean football midfielder who played for the South Korean national team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2012. They were the sixth presidential elections since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic, and were held under a first-past-the-post system, in which there was a single round of voting and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes was elected. Under the South Korean constitution, a president is restricted to a single five-year term in office. The term of the then incumbent president Lee Myung-bak ended on 24 February 2013. According to the Korea Times, 30.7 million people voted with turnout at 75.8%. Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri party was elected the first female South Korean president with 51.6% of the vote opposed to 48.0% for her opponent Moon Jae-in. Park's share of the vote was the highest won by any candidate since the beginning of free and fair direct elections in 1987 and the first such election in which any candidate won a majority. Moreover, as of the 2022 election, this is the latest South Korean presidential election in which the winning candidate won an absolute majority of the vote.
Events from the year 2002 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1955 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1953 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1952 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1971 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1988 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1987 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1996 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1994 in South Korea.
Events from the year 1993 in South Korea.
Kim Heung-soo is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in television series, such as Love & Secret (2014–2015) and Gracious Revenge (2019–2020).
Kim Eung-soo is a South Korean actor. Kim lived in Japan for seven years, where he studied filmmaking at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.
Kim Jin-kook is a former South Korean footballer. While Cha Bum-kun played as a right winger for the South Korea national football team in the 1970s, Kim was in charge of the left wing. He had a small body, but was skilled in changing directions and delivering crosses. Delivered to the target man Jae-han, his cross was one of South Korea's important tactics. He also played for 2. Bundesliga side Darmstadt 98 and Wormatia Worms in the later years of his career.
Kim Joong-soo is a South Korean former badminton player and coach. He now serves as Badminton World Federation director, Badminton Asia president, and Badminton Korea Association vice-chairman.