Today in Korean history

Today in Korean history



May 5

1905 -- Bosung College, which later became Korea University, opens in Seoul.

1946 -- The country celebrates Children's Day for the first time since it was
banned by the Japanese colonial regime between 1910 and 1945. The date of the
holiday was changed to May 5 from the first Sunday in May.

1951 -- The South Korean government promulgates the Children's Charter.

1983 -- A Chinese passenger airplane hijacked during a domestic flight between
Shenyang and Shanghai in China makes an emergency landing in the South Korean
city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province.

1992 -- The seventh meeting of senior officials from South and North Korea opens
in Seoul.

2008 -- Park Kyung-ni, one of Korea's best-known contemporary writers, dies of
lung cancer at the age of 82. Her epic novel "The Land," regarded by her
compatriots as a masterpiece of contemporary Korean literature, has been included
in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.
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