Today in Korean history

Today in Korean history



Jan. 16

1948 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" is performed in South Korea for the
first time.

1951 -- China rejects a United Nations proposal for a cease-fire in the Korean
War. South Korea never signed the armistice that later concluded the 1950-53
conflict, and therefore North and South Korea technically remain at war. South
Korea marked the 55th anniversary of the armistice in 2008.

1990 -- South Korea's Hyundai Group obtains formal permission from the Soviet
Chamber of Commerce and Industry to set up a subsidiary in Moscow, becoming the
first domestic business group to do so.

1997 -- Novelist Miri Yuu, a second-generation Korean resident in Japan, wins the
coveted Akutagawa Prize for her book "Family Cinema," which depicts the
relationships of scattered members of a family who reunite to make a film about
their lives.

1998 -- A medical team at Seoul National University Hospital succeeds in
transplanting a Korean-made artificial heart into a patient, the first such
operation in the country.

2004 -- South Korea and the United States agree to relocate all U.S. troops out
of Seoul over the next three years.
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