2012 Event World leaders discuss nuclear security during a summit in Seoul, South Korea 2011 Event Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy 2011 Event After losing a referendum on free school lunches, Seoul's mayor, Oh Se-hoon, resigns 2009 Event The C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group meets for the third time in Seoul 1994 Event Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding 1994 Event Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die 1988 Event 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea 1988 Event 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea 1988 Event U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics 1986 Event Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed 1983 Event Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul 1981 Event Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics 1976 Birthday Richard Park, Seoul Kor, NHL center for the Pittsburgh Penguins 1973 Birthday Greg Rusedski, born in Montreal, Quebec, tennis star, 1995 Seoul 1971 Event Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul 1969 Birthday Morena Corwin, Seoul, Korea, playmate, Sep, 1992 1968 Birthday Ritchie Woodhall, born in Woodside, Telford, England, boxer, athlete, television and radio broadcaster, bronze medal winer, 1988 Seoul Olympics, 1990 Gold Commonwealth Games 1967 Birthday Pearl Sinn, born in Seoul, Korea, LPGA golfer, 1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th 1964 Birthday Yvonne Murray, born in Musselburgh, Scottish track, running athlete, won Olympic bronze medal, 3000m, Seoul, 1988 1960 Birthday Sean Kerly, born in Whitstable, Kent, England, Sean Robin Kerly, athlete, field hockey player, awarded bronze medal at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 1984, scored eight goals at 1988 Olympics in Seoul, playing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad 1955 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul 1953 Birthday Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist, Chung Sisters 1953 Birthday Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor 1952 Birthday Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, U.S. U.S. table tennis player 1992 Olympics 1951 Event During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1951 Event Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1951 Event During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul 1950 Event U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul 1950 Event U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 1950 Event North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1948 Birthday Kyung-Wha Chung, born in Seoul, Korea, violinist, Chung Sisters 1944 Death Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65 1944 Birthday Myung-Wha Chung, born in Seoul, South Korea, cellist, Chung Sisters 1939 Birthday Jay Kim, born in Seoul, South Korea, Representative-R-California 1993 - 1999 1932 Birthday Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium
