Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, makes an address to the U.S. Congress in 1954. |
The April 19 Revolution in 1960 |
President Park Chung-hee meets U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961. |
Kim Jae-kyu, chief of the intelligence agency, stands trial for assassinating President Park Chung-hee in 1979. |
Soldiers clamp down on the Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980 |
Hyundai Motors rolls out the 200,000th Pony in 1980. The company began manufacturing the nation’s first mass-produced car in 1975. |
President Roh Tae-woo meets Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1990. |
Seongsu Bridge over the Hangang River after its collapse in 1994 |
Sampoong Department Store in Seoul after its collapse in 1995 |
Korea seeks a bailout fund from the IMF in 1997. |
President Kim Dae-jung meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-il before their summit in Pyongyang in 2000. |
Crowds gather for the FIFA World Cup in 2002. |
2010 Seoul G20 Summit |
President Syngman Rhee reads The Korean Republic, which was renamed The Korea Herald, with his wife Francesca Donner Rhee and his adopted son Lee Kang-seok on his 83rd birthday in 1958. |
A cameraman of The Korea Republic develops news photos in the darkroom of the newspaper. |
The Korea Republic building located in front of Herald Academy on Taepyeong-ro in 1962 |
Officials place a new signboard after The Korea Republic changed its name to The Korea Herald on Aug. 15, 1965. |
Italian priest Aurelie Villa, the winner of the second Korean oratorical contest for foreigners hosted by The Korea Herald, makes a speech on March 11, 1967. |
Kim Dae-jung (left), the leader of the Party for Peace and Democracy, Kim Young-sam (center), the head of the New Democratic Party, and The Korea Herald and Naeway Economic Daily chairman Park Yong-hak make a toast during a reception held by the newspaper company in 1989. |
Rep. Park Geun-hye of the then-Grand National Party (left) and Herald Media CEO Jungwook Hong (third from left) celebrate The Korea Herald’s 50th anniversary in 2003. |
Herald Corp. chairman Jungwook Hong talks with Park Seo-won, chief executive of Big Ant International, during the Herald Design Forum 2012. |