July 5, 2025 00:00
In 1880, North Korean messenger Kim Hongji and his party went to Japan. The Messenger was a diplomatic envoy sent to Japan by North Korea in the late Joseon era.
The Hanjiang Iron Bridge was completed in 1900. The Han River Iron Bridge is the first bridge across the Han River in South Korea and is also the first bridge to be built with new technologies introduced. The bridge has four lines: A, B, C and D. Line A was built in 1897 and opened to traffic on July 5, 1900. Line B and Line C were opened to traffic in 1912 and 1944, respectively. In June 1950, in order to prevent the Korean People’s Army from moving south, all three lines A, B and C were blown up, and they were not restored until June 1969. Line D was completed in 1995.
In 1907, a group of three special envoys sent by Emperor Gaozong to The Hague, Netherlands (Li Xiangsheng, Li Jun, and Li Weizhong) attended the second Peace Conference of All Nations and submitted a protest letter proposing the invalidity of the “Yi Si Protection Treaty”, exposing Japan’s ambitions and calling on the European and American powers to intervene to restore South Korea’s sovereignty. But this diplomatic activity ended in failure under Japan’s obstruction and indifference from the great powers. This incident is called the Hague envoy incident, also known as the Hague envoy incident.
In 1935, five anti-Japanese movement groups in South Korea formed the Korean National Revolutionary Party in Nanjing, China.
In 1949, the South Korean government promulgated the Local Autonomy Law.
The First Corps of the South Korean Army was established in 1950.
In 1976, the Seoul Qianhu Bridge was opened to traffic. The bridge connects Gangdong District and Gwangjin District of Seoul.
In 1987, Yeonsei University student Lee Hanlie died. Li Hanlie was hit by tear gas fired by the police while attending an anti-government demonstration on June 9 of the same year and fell into a coma. He died at 2:5 am on July 5 due to ineffective treatment.
In 1993, the construction of Incheon Metro Line 1 was officially started.
In 2001, South Korean baseball player Park Zan-ho was selected for the All-Star Team of the American Baseball Professional League.
In 2006, North Korea tested the medium-range and long-range missiles such as Dapudong 2, 4 Scud missiles and 2 “Ludong”.
The men’s team competition in the 2018 South Korea-North Korea Unified Basketball Championship entered its second match day. The South Korean and North Korean men’s basketball team competed at the Yoogyong Jung Joyong Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea that day, and the South Korean team lost 82-70.
In 2022, Korean-American mathematician Xu Ye (39 years old, June Huh) won the Fields Medal, which is known as the “Nobel Prize” in the mathematics world. Xu Ye is a professor at Princeton University in the United States and a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematics of the Korean Academy of Higher Sciences (KIAS).
In 2023, the South Korean military completed the salvage of North Korea’s space carriers and satellite wreckage. South Korean and American experts jointly conducted a precise analysis of it and concluded that North Korea’s reconnaissance satellites had no military utility. On May 31 of the same year, North Korea launched the “Thousand-Mile Horse 1” space carrier carrying the “Milli Mile Mile 1” reconnaissance satellite in Dongcangli, North Ping’an Province. However, after the first-stage separation, the carrier failed to ignite the second-stage arrow body and fell to the sea area more than 200 kilometers west of Qingdao, Geunsan City, North Jeolla Province, South Korea. About 1 hour and 30 minutes later, the South Korean army found an object suspected to be the wreckage of the carrier in the water near the landing point, and salvaged the second-level arrow body of the carrier out of the water on June 15. The search and salvage work of the Korean army took a total of 36 days.
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