Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor. He has received acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres,most notably Joint Security Area (2000);A Bittersweet Life (2005);The Good,the Bad,the Weird (2008);I Saw the Devil (2010);Masquerade (2012);and the television series Iris (2009) and Mr. Sunshine (2018). His critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor prize at the three most prestigious South Korean award ceremonies:52nd Baeksang Arts Awards,37th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has seven films—Joint Security Area,The Good,the Bad,the Weird,Masquerade,Inside Men,Master,Ashfall and The Man Standing Next—on the list of the highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018. In 2021,he appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix hit survival series Squid Game.
South Korea competed as Korea at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,Australia. Athletes from North and South Korea marched together in the opening ceremony under the Korean Unification Flag. 281 competitors,175 men and 106 women,took part in 144 events in 26 sports.
Sogang University is one of the top private research university in Seoul,South Korea. It was established in 1960 by Fr. Theodore Geppert,SJ with the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus. Sogang is the oldest Jesuit institution of higher education in South Korea.
Jidokwan is one of the original nine schools of the modern Korean martial arts that became Taekwondo and was founded in what is now South Korea at the end of World War II. Its name translates as "School of Wisdom". The Jidokwan in Korea still exists today. It functions as a social fraternal order. Jidokwan supports and endorses the Kukkiwon method of Taekwondo,and supports World Taekwondo.
Choo Byung-jik (Korean: 추병직) was a South Korean politician. He was the 13th Minister for Construction.
Kang Kyung-wha is a South Korean diplomat and politician who served as the first female Foreign Minister of South Korea under President Moon Jae-in from 2017 to 2021 as well as the first woman nominated for and appointed to the position. She is also the first Korean woman to hold a high-level position in the United Nations. Previously,Kang was the first non-exam-taker to become a director-general in the ministry. She is the first South Korean foreign minister to join the official South Korean delegation for the inter-Korean summit as well as to visit Pyongyang,the North Korean capital. Kang is the incoming president and CEO of the Asia Society.
The relationship between the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland spans from the 19th century to the present day. Although the Republic of Korea gives 18 January 1949 as the date of the establishment of formal relations with the United Kingdom,diplomatic ties go back to the United Kingdom–Korea Treaty of 1883. British military participation in the Korean War during the 1950s was significant,but relations between the two countries at the time were described as "tenuous",with relatively little known about each other. Commercial and trade relationships grew rapidly during the 1970s. During the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s,Queen Elizabeth II made a state visit to South Korea,which was well received at a time of crisis in the country. Today,there are strong economic and diplomatic links between the two countries.
I Saw the Devil is a 2010 South Korean action-thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik,the film follows NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee),who embarks on a quest for revenge when his wife is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer Jang Kyung-chul (Choi).
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 15 October 1963. They were the first elections since the 1961 May Coup,and the first during the Third Republic. The result was a narrow victory for the acting incumbent and leader of the governing military Supreme Council for National Reconstruction,Park Chung Hee,who won 46.6% of the vote,securing a transition to civilian rule under his Democratic Republican Party. Voter turnout was 85.0%.
Global Asia is a quarterly magazine published by the East Asia Foundation. Similar in concept to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs,Global Asia deals with global issues,but with a special focus on Asia. The editor-in-chief is Chung-in Moon of Yonsei University.
The Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapDongYeChong) is a Reformed and Presbyterian denomination in South Korea. Under the leadership of Rev. Chun Byung-Hun,Rev. Choi Young-Su and Lee Sang-Yun the denomination was founded in 1988 at Seoul YeChin Church. In 2004 there was 32,178 members in 65 congregations served by 70 ordained ministers the church had 7 Presbyteries and a General assembly. It subscribes the Apostles Creed and Westminster Confession.
Yun (Korean: 윤) is a family name in Korea,which means "governor". The name is sometimes also transliterated as Yoon,Yune,Yiun,or Youn. According to the 2000 census,948,600 people had the surname in South Korea. It derives from the Chinese character 尹.
Events from the year 1985 in South Korea.
Koreans in Venezuela form one of the smallest Korean communities in Latin America,according to the statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Flowers of the Prison is a 2016 South Korean drama television series starring Jin Se-yeon,Go Soo,Kim Mi-sook,Jung Joon-ho,Park Joo-mi,Yoon Joo-hee,Kim Soo-yeon,Jun Kwang-ryul and Choi Tae-joon. It is MBC's special project drama to commemorate the network's 55th-founding anniversary. The drama also marks the 3rd time collaboration between director Lee Byung-hoon and writer Choi Wan-kyu,after Hur Jun and Sangdo. It replaced Marriage Contract and aired on MBC every Saturdays and Sundays at 22:00 (KST) for 51 episodes from April 30 to November 6,2016.
Introverted Boss is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Yeon Woo-jin and Park Hye-su. It aired on cable network tvN every Monday and Tuesday at 23:00 (KST) from January 16 to March 14,2017.
Mr. Sunshine is a 2018 South Korean television series written by Kim Eun-sook and directed by Lee Eung-bok,starring Lee Byung-hun,Kim Tae-ri,Yoo Yeon-seok,Kim Min-jung,and Byun Yo-han. The series is set in Hanseong in the early 1900s,and focuses on activists fighting for Korea's independence. The series aired every Saturday and Sunday on tvN starting from July 7,2018,and ended on September 30,2018. It premiered internationally on Netflix.
Avengers Social Club is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Lee Yo-won,Ra Mi-ran,Myung Se-bin and Lee Jun-young. It is adapted from a webtoon titled Buam-dong Avengers Social Club which was serialized on Daum from 2014 to 2016. It airs every Wednesday and Thursday starting October 11,2017 on cable channel tvN.
Meloholic is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Jung Yun-ho and Kyung Soo-jin. It is based on the webtoon of the same name by Team Getname. The series aired on OCN starting November 6,2017 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:00 (KST). It also aired on mobile app Oksusu on November 1,2017.
The Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement declared that the issue of the comfort women between Japan and South Korea was to be resolved finally and irreversibly. The agreement was announced by the Foreign Ministers of both countries and confirmed by the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of South Korea by a telephone call on 28 December 2015. In 2019,the agreement had been effectively shelved.
