1919 -- A group of 24 leaders from Korea's independence movement declares the establishment of a provisional government in Shanghai aimed at gaining freedom from Japanese colonial rule. 1960 -- Prime ...

He chose to go head-to-head with Lee Young-ae. The National Theater Company's 'Hedda Gabler' will be unveiled on the 8th of ...

The troubled tenure of South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol formally came to an end on April 4. The nation’s Constitutional ...

Kim Shin-jo (pic), a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean president Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed ...

During military rule, especially under Park Chung-hee’s 17-year dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, presidents wielded immense power. To prevent future leaders from consolidating power as Park and ...

Kim Shin-jo, who later reinvented himself as a Christian pastor, took part in the failed 1968 attempt to assassinate Park Chung-hee. A former North Korean commando who took part in a failed 1968 ...

Kim Shin-jo, the only North Korean to be captured alive during the raid, famously admitted that he and his colleagues had come "to slit the throat" of Park Chung-hee, South Korea’s authoritarian ...

General Park Chung-hee, father of Park Gyun-hee, took power in a coup in 1961, then was elected president in 1963. He ruled until assassinated in 1979 by the head of the Korea Central Intelligence ...

The troubled tenure of South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol formally came to an end on April 4. The nation’s Constitutional ...

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed ...

He famously said the mission of a hit squad sent by Pyongyang in 1968 was to “slit the throat” of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Kim Shin-jo ...

In a news conference arranged by South Korean authorities, Kim stunned the nation by saying that his team came “to slit the throat of Park Chung-hee.” The attack, which also killed about 30 South ...