1966 — In an editorial in its main newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea promulgates the policy of “juche,” meaning self-reliance, claiming ideological independence from its allies — the Soviet Union and China — at that time.

1971 — South Korea’s National Red Cross suggests to its North Korean counterpart a joint campaign to locate separated family members in both parts of the Korean Peninsula. The two sides met a year later to discuss the project but failed to reach an agreement. The family reunion project materialized decades later, in a 2000 summit meeting between President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who agreed to regularly hold the humanitarian event.

1993 — In a move to fight corruption, President Kim Young-sam puts into effect the “real-name financial system,” banning transactions under phony or borrowed names and requiring that all individuals use their real names to open bank accounts or purchase stock. The previous nonregulation policy provided a haven for money lau
ndering and tax evasion.

1999 — Workers from South and North Korea play a friendly football match in the North’s capital of Pyongyang.

2002 — South and North Korea hold their seventh round of ministerial talks in Seoul.

2010 — Andre Kim, one of South Korea’s most popular fashion designers, dies at age 75 at a Seoul hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia.

2016 — President Park Geun-hye grants special pardons to some 4,000 people in celebration of Liberation Day, including CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun, who was struggling with an illness.

2021 — South Korea and Turkey sign their first currency swap agreement, in a move to boost trade between the two nations.

Source: Yonhap News Agency