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Yeon Gaesomun [1] (594–666) was a powerful military dictator in the waning days of the Goguryeo kingdom, [2] which was one of the Three Kingdoms of ancient Korea. He is remembered for his successful resistance against Tang China under Emperor Taizong and his son Emperor Gaozong .
6.76 m (−0.2 m/s) Jung Soon-ok: 4 June 2009 Daegu, South Korea Triple jump: 13.92 m (+1.6 m/s) Kim Su-yeon: 26 May 2006 Gongju, South Korea Shot put: 19.36 m Lee Myung-sun: 19 April 2000 Shanghai, China Discus throw: 57.70 m Sin Yu-jin: 15 June 2024 National Division Championships Mokpo, South Korea [34] Hammer throw: 64.14 m Kim Tae-hui: 29 ...
As he was traveling under the pseudonym "Kim Chol", Malaysian officials did not immediately formally confirm that Kim Jong-nam was the man killed. [13] [21] Kim's extensive Facebook use under this pseudonym since at least 2010, and use of commercial email services for communications, may have made it easier for North Korean agents to seek his ...
Yoo Young-chul (Korean: 유영철, romanized: Yu Yeongcheol; born 18 April 1970) is a South Korean serial killer, sex offender, and self-confessed cannibal.After he admitted to the murders of multiple people, [1] mostly prostitutes and wealthy old couples, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders, although one case was dismissed when it turned out that the crime had been ...
At the time he was identified, he was already serving a life sentence in a prison in Busan for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law. [ 33 ] Lee initially denied any involvement in the serial murders, [ 34 ] but, on October 2, 2019, police announced he had confessed to killing 14 people, including all 10 serial murders.
For a period of four years and seven months, between September 15, 1986, and April 3, 1991, Lee Choon-jae, then in his twenties, committed the Hwaseong serial murders (Korean: 화성 연쇄 살인 사건; Hanja: 華城連鎖殺人事件; RR: hwaseong yeonswae sarin sageon), which were a series of rapes and murders that occurred in the rural city of Hwaseong in Gyeonggi Province. [8]
Internet firm Naver has earned its nickname—Korea’s Google—by pulling off an improbable feat: It dominates South Korea’s search market, having defended its turf from Google, the world’s ...
The Yangju highway incident, also known as the Yangju training accident or Highway 56 Accident, occurred on June 13, 2002, in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.A United States Army armored vehicle-launched bridge, returning to base in Uijeongbu on a public road after training maneuvers in the countryside, struck and killed two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls, Shin Hyo-sun (Korean ...