Today in Korean history

In 2000, President Kim Dae-jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong efforts towards democracy and human rights in South Korea and East Asia. A crucial element in the committee's decision was his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in June of the same year, which helped to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

In 2009, North Korea agreed to South Korea's proposal for talks to prevent floods of cross-border rivers and resume reunions of separated families, following North Korea's abrupt test-firing of five short-range missiles near the East Sea. The South Korean government sent a letter proposing working-level talks in North Korea's border city of Kaesong to discuss measures for preventing the flooding of the Imjin River, which runs along the western section of the inter-Korean border.

In 2014, South Korea's leading mobile messenger operator, Daum Kakao, announced that making the best security to protect users' privacy a top priority would be their main focus, due to concerns over a privacy breach. This statement implied that they would not comply with investigators' requests for monitoring.

In 2017, South Korea and China reached an agreement to extend their currency swap deal.

The South Korean streaming giant Netflix revealed in 2021 that their own original content, the survival drama "Squid Game," was the most successful original content in the United States, with 111 million accounts watching it within the first 28 days of its release.