{
  "id": 6711879,
  "title": "Today in Korean history",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/today-in-korean-history",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-11T05:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260911000700315"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On July 26, 1921, Kim Ik-sang, a fervent Korean independence advocate, hurled a bomb into the Japanese colonial government's headquarters in an effort to assassinate the Japanese Governor-General of Korea, Makoto Saito. Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula lasted from 1910 to 1945.\n\nIn 1983, the South Korean government delivered a formal letter to the Soviet Union's ambassador in the United States, seeking reparations for the families affected by the downing of a Korean Air flight. The South Korean airliner, carrying 269 passengers, including 61 Americans, was struck by a Soviet Air Force jet during its trans-Atlantic journey from New York to Seoul.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee held its 94th General Assembly in Seoul in 1988. In 1990, torrential rains in central South Korea triggered flooding, resulting in 120 fatalities or missing persons.\n\nIn 1991, an international athletics meeting took place in South Korea, with 1,652 Koreans from 88 countries participating. The Presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths released its findings in 2002, revealing that eight individuals executed in 1974 for attempting a coup d'état against the South Korean government had been wrongfully convicted. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the forerunner of today's National Intelligence Service, had orchestrated their false accusation.\n\nSouth Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun journeyed to Pyongyang in 2011 to foster cultural exchanges between the two Koreas. In 2012, South Korea and Norway signed an agreement to collaborate on addressing climate change and its impact on the Arctic region, with the goal of developing the resource-rich Arctic without compromising its environment, including the potential opening of polar shipping routes. The agreement was forged during a summit in Oslo between South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.\n\nA magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near South Korea's southeastern city of Gyeongju in 2016, marking the strongest tremor on the Korean Peninsula since 1978, when earthquake monitoring began. Fortunately, no serious injuries were reported as a result of this seismic event.\n\nIn 2025, over 300 South Korean workers were repatriated to their homeland after being detained for a week by U.S. immigration authorities in Georgia following a raid at an electric car battery plant construction site jointly operated by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd.",
  "summary": "Sept. 12",
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Today in Korean history",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/today-in-korean-history",
        "published": "2026-09-06T05:00:17.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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