Timeline (An Alternate East Asia)

Seonggye is crowned king, officially beginning the Joseon Dynasty.
 * 1392: Yi


 * 1396: Capital moved to Hanyang (modern day Seoul)


 * 1402: Paper currency initiated


 * 1408: High military service examination system created


 * 1420: Hall of Worthies (집현전,集賢殿) established

Goryeo compiled.
 * 1424: History of

alphabet, created 3 years earlier, is promulgated by King Sejong the Great.
 * 1446: The Hangul

begins under the command of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Japanese invasion is called "Im-Jin-Whae-Ran". Admiral Yi Sun-Sin employs the Turtle ship to repel Japanese forces.
 * 1592: The Japanese invasion of Korea

takes place (정묘호란,丁卯胡亂).
 * 1627: The first Manchu invasion

takes place (병자호란,丙子胡亂).
 * 1636: The second Manchu invasion


 * 1653: Dutch ship, with Captain Hendrick Hamel, wrecked on Jeju Island.


 * 1762: The tragedy of Crown Prince Sado (son of King Yeongjo)

begins 3 miles west of Suwon Village he is the son of a low class family
 * 1791: Persecution of Catholicism
 * 1836: March 22; Park Kwang-min is born on a family farm

born in a family farm in Liaoyang in the Fentian Province about 3 miles north of Tieling local 17 year old farm girl Kim Jung-soon and Kim Jung-soon have a son Park Sung-min throne with his father, Daewongun, as Regent. Daewongun views are isolationist, conservative, anti-catholic. Gojong would develop liberal, tolerant views, a love of everything modern and new, knowledge and reform with a respect for tradition, and a    fascination with history and former great leaders he would eventually come to despise his father
 * 1844: July 3; Zeng Huangzhou is
 * 1857: Park Kwang-min marries a
 * 1860: April 29; Park Kwang-min
 * 1864: Gojong ascends the

into Korean territory. Korea decides to open up to the world, strikes a trade deal with France recognizing their independence, they also meet with Captain Page, and strike a trade deal; Gojong want to agree to the deal but Daewongun decides to have the people in the ship killed and burned, Gojong disobeys his father and agrees to the deal behind his back General Sherman ship of everything modern, reformer, and always at odds with his strict, conservative father; forces his own father Regent Daewongun to live in    exile, after multiple intense disagreements and a couple of international incidents forces Gojong to ban him from politics the main reason for this was the General Sherman incident, thinking it would cause a war with Western Powers,  he copies his leadership style off of Sejong the Great, Yeongju, and Jeongju, and immediately ends the persecution of Catholics, and allows women into government where he leads by hard work, self-determination, striving for education, and leading by example by putting his country before himself
 * 1866: French campaign
 * 1866: Gojong orders an examination and replica of the
 * 1870: Gojong charismatic, ambitious, rebellious, lover
 * 1870: Gojong makes Confucianism the ideals for his rule

Kingdom, with a population of 16,900,000, suffering through poverty, only 15% of the population is literate, illiteracy is at 85%, and 30% of the population are slaves end faction politics, and restores the Andong Kim Clan but instead this time they work for the King, reinstates the Seowon schools which his father had banned, and greatly expands their operations, he declares top priorities of curriculum are reading, writing, history, math and science all classes to learn there, along with peasants, and slaves, and declares that lower class people can rise through their own merits or fall according to them the Joseon Court, and demotes their status to slavery, and based off of    Sejong the Great appoints head officials by merit, intelligence, ambition, and integrity, not social class, he also begins a massive anti-corruption campaign taxes on farms that irrigate their crops, part of famine relief modern Korean steamships, and a modernization of the army Revolution, saying “The era of Isolationism, and Idleness are over” they forge a plan to modernize Korea Korea, 5% in China, and 10% in Japan Hunglo first military encounter with Korea in the Sinmi Yangyo. Koreans hostile at first lay down weapons when they realize that they mean no    harm, and agree to their conditions. The ports are formally opened under a trade agreement with the United States, starting with the ports of Busan, and Incheon, signing of    the Korea-United States Treaty agreeing to apologize for the 1866 incident, agrees to open commerece with the western world. Gojong and Commodore John Rodgers agree to start relations. Pusan and Incheon become Korea’s first international ports and Commerce Francisco with diplomats, and scientists down to discover technology, medicine, and to strike a peace-trade alliance with them creating the first ever Korean Embassy, creating an alliance Francisco, gives Korean students to a local University, to teach them about technology, learns about agricultural modernization, technology, and medicine. Travels to Washington, D.C via railroad, and establishes the first Korean Embassies in San Francisco, and D.C.  Gojong hires a    translator, meets President Grant and apologizes for the initial hostilities during the General Sherman incident, and the Rodgers incident, agrees to the United States-Korea Treaty, giving US the most favored nation status. Gojong even gifts President Grant with a myeonje baegab the world’s first examples of a soft bullet proof vest, and in a test Gojong puts on his copy of a vest, and orders Grant to shoot at him with a musket pistol. The bullet fails to penetrate the vest, and Grant accepts the gift; Gojong learns a lot of American history, for uniting a country in turmoil, Gojong also creates an alliance with America, learns of railroads and canals for making inter-land travel and trade much more quick, easy, and efficient and military buildup, and orders gunpowder for every soldier, and myeonje baegabs for every soldier too miners, metalworkers can eliminate their low-class status, and pay much lower taxes if they start businesses, or by how much they produce on the United States model for education making elementary education compulsive up to age 10, education is no longer limited to upper classes and elites, but is now mandatory for all, modernization, reformism, and progress every farming village to be open every day instead of every five days increasing food production and consumption meet with Tsar Alexander II, he discovers the advantages to large land area, and learns about Peter the Great and immediately idolizes the man where he decides to base his model of leadership off of both Peter and Catherine the Great of Russia signs the Russia-Korea Treaty of 1872, while he is there he also becomes an avid lover of coffee, and negotiates a deal to transport a telegraph wire to China and Japan through  Korea, there he befriends Alexander II, and sets up the Korean-Russian relations the nation that would become Korea’s closest European neighbor over the next three quarters of a    century will become their closest ally the Korea-Germany Treaty of 1873, he then travels to every nation capital over the next three months signing diplomatic opening treaties with Denmark, Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, Belgium, then in May he travels to London where he visits the Annual International Exhibition, he is amazed by the modernization and notices that everything is in surpluses instead of    shortages, he travels via trains and steamships as he is traveling he     contemplates his plan for modernization agricultural reform and eventual industrialization, he also learns about shipbuilding for steamships,  he hires engineers, doctors, scientists to work at the University in Korea, he meets Otto Von Bismark, and discover the two have a lot in common, he befriends him and asks him for advice on modernization leadership, he bases his social policies off of Queen Victoria of England, Sejong the Great of Korea, Catherine the Great and Alexander II of Russia, and Louis XIV of France, and Otto Von Bismark of Germany all minus the ideology, he bases his economic policies off of Yeongjo of Korea, Napoleon III of France, Otto von Bismark of Germany, and he also bases his foreign policies on Otto Von Bismark and his leadership style and overall policies as a Korean equivalent to Peter the Great. Gojong realizes that in order to modernize Korea he will have to do    it himself from the top down just like Russia did because unlike Britain, Japan, and America they don’t have a cultural elements that make modernization possible period over the next 50 years, Gojong will force Korea into an immense and rapid modernization that has never been seen in any country in history, it    is said that under the reign of Gojong, Korea makes as much as Three centuries of progress in less than half a century, for his modernization of Korea he uses the styles of Russian model of stubborn determined leadership, an American model of ambition and education, and a Japanese model of borrowing technologies from the West and copying them and has made deals with Russia, and the United States for them to provide investment and help provide tips and equipment to help modernize the country that rifles, be replaced with newly developed rifles based off of the Winchester Model 1866 he bought from a local gun store in America, and a    Smith and Wesson model 3 that he also bought from a local gun store in     America military, from its current enlistment of 5,000 to 25,000, and a massive increase in the fleet of the navy, complete modernization of artillery and ships Joseon, and orders promotion of Hangul in all schools, and texts, promotes universal literacy, and forces all classes to learn how to read printing house, and orders all Korean works and signs written in Hanja must be replaced with Hangul 6), an unheard of achievement befriends Gojong who both have a lot in    common, and is appointed Yeonguijeong at the age of 22, an unheard of     achievement, the two become best friends      for farming with British and American methods of farming, and crop     rotation, manure is to be used as fertilizer     himself, his new wife, and the entire Yi family the Gukga anjeon bowibu,     they are chosen out of the most skilled, and most loyal soldiers, they are     trained in ssireum, subak, and taekkyeon, for fear that traditionalists,     and isolationist conservatives might try to overthrow him      rockets and mysorean rockets     science academy     for mathematics     hospital in Seoul     Nations, Origin of Species, and all other great scientific books to be     translated into the Korean language     from the US as a gift from Grant     Gangwha are eventually forced off, Japan blockades the peninsula and demands an apology, Gojong refuses demanding that Japan should be the ones apologizing not them. This starts the 37 year feud rivalry and bitter hatred between Gojong and Meiji for-shadowing what was to come assert themselves against the Japanese, and a dry-dock built in Pusan first post office in Seoul, with a postal delivery system based off of the Pony Express in America, making information much faster to pass around in    the empire, models it after the Pony Express in America, where horse riders can now travel up to 70 miles a day shortening the travel time form Seoul to Pusan from 9 days to 4 days from Gojong, and the armies size is increased to 13,000 soldiers Construction of a Missionary agreement with Japan, eventually leads to an agreement of allowing Korea their independence and thus the start of the Gojong-Okgyun Reform, and establishment of Phase One of the Gawngmu Reform, Gojong makes his famous statement “We open up    to the rest of the world, modernize, and remain independent in-charge of     our own destiny; or we isolate ourselves from the rest of world, remain dormant, and one day find ourselves controlled by Japan.” Modernized Army of Korea nationalist, reformist stances and pro-modernization views and is under direct control from Gojong nationwide, the first high school is built in the city of Seoul, the purpose of this is to cure illiteracy there are currently 1,500 schools in    the country he orders them to accept much more children and parents to     have their children to walk for miles to school if necessary of the country replacing the current system of land ownership with a    cadastral system to greatly improve agricultural efficiency and agricultural output schools nationwide a must cure illiteracy, and give everyone the ability to write, and demand that children walk for miles if necessary to attend school cows from the United States First English school in the year 1877-78 Busan, and expansion of the city of Seoul, and to the Taedong River in    Pyongyang he uses slave labor to build it     army \
 * 1870: Joseon Korea by this point is a backwards, medieval
 * 1870: Gojong orders the army to suppress any uprisings,
 * 1870: Gojong orders the Hyanggyo to allow members of
 * 1870: Gojong ousts and banishes conservative members of
 * 1870: Gojong lowers taxes on farm crops and even lower
 * 1870: Gojong orders replacement of ships in Navy with
 * 1870: Gojong opens up Korea and begins a Social
 * 1870: November; Gojong marries Myeongseong and together
 * 1870: The urbanization rate is estimated at 3% in
 * 1870: February 28; Zeng Huangzhou has a son named Zeng
 * 1871: July 1-6; United States Asiatic Squadron has
 * 1871: Gojong signs the Korean-American Treaty of Amity
 * 1871: August, 2-August, 18; Gojong travels to San
 * 1871: August, 18-November, 2; Gojong arrives in San
 * 1872: After returning from the US Gojong orders a navy
 * 1872: Gojong gives incentives to start business,
 * 1872: Gojong reforms the education system to be based
 * 1872: Gojong orders Farmer’s markets to be set up in
 * 1872-73 April-February; Gojong travels to Russia to
 * 1873 February-July; Gojong travels to Berlin agrees to
 * 1873: August; Gojong creates a model for his
 * 1873: September; Gojong returns to Korea, and from this
 * 1873: Gojong orders military equipmvent be replaced and
 * 1873: Gojong orders an increase in the size of the
 * 1873: Gojong declares Hangul the official writing of
 * 1873: Gojong orders the construction of the first
 * 1873: The Korean Patent Office is created
 * 1873: Kim Ok-gyun passes the civil service exam (level
 * 1873: Gojong orders farmers to replace current methods
 * 1873: Gojong creates an elite team of bodyguards for
 * 1874: Gojong orders the Hwacha to be made with congrave
 * 1874: Gojong orders construction of the first modern
 * 1874: Gojong orders construction of the first center
 * 1875: Gojong orders the construction of the first modern
 * 1875: Gojong orders the books Art of War, Wealth of
 * 1875: Sungkyunkwan is reformed into a modern 3 year university
 * 1875: Korea gets its first modern Ironclad war ship
 * 1875: September 10-21; Japanese invade and occupy
 * 1875: Gojong orders a mass construction of gunboats to
 * 1875: Gojon sets up the first modern postal service,
 * 1875: The Korean Army successfully copies the weapons
 * 1876: Korea's rejects the treaty and signs a peace
 * 1876: Gojong recruits Kim Okgyun as a policy advisor,
 * 1877: The first newspaper debuts, it is known for its
 * 1877: Myeonseong establishes English speaking schools
 * 1877: Gojong orders the first school system to be built
 * 1877: Gojong makes a reform to the landownership system
 * 1877: Gojong reforms the education system making public
 * 1877: Korea imports seeds, and farm equipment, and milk
 * 1878: Gojong orders a canal built from the Han River to
 * 1878: There are now 28,000 people enlisted in the Korean
 * 1879: The Korean Imperial Military Academy is founded
 * 1879: The first national modern hospital is built.
 * 1879: The Korean National Library is founded in Seoul

King Gojong in the year 1879 to 23%, and 26% of the population are slaves, approximately 6% of children attend school in China, and 10% in Japan The city of Seoul in the year 1880 of creating a central bank constructed from Seoul to Busan using foreign companies for funding cities of Seoul, Pusan, and Pyongyang to have all thatched roofs to be    replaced with brick or tiled roofs this leads to minor riots are suffering through poverty named Im Sung-sook 78 miles long and shortens the trip from Seoul to Busan for traders from 12 days to 3-4 days Palace begins, it is to be modeled after the Winter Palace, Versailles, and Peterhof, it will have fountains, running water, electricity, the first telephone line in Korea, telegraph lines to Japan and Russia he has architect Sim Ui-seok collaborate with Russian architect Alfanasy Seredin-Sabatin, the palace style ordered by Gojong to be a mix of    traditional Korean architecture with neo-classical and baroque architecture, style red, with a Korean tiled roof to blend in the ground will be surrounded by Korean style gates, and wall in a more modern style and will have fountains as well, it is to be a palce within a palce in    Gyeongbokgung Palace although some structures will be demolished to make way, and the first building in Korea to have electricity, plumbing, running water, a telegraph line, telephone line, reformism, nationalism, and modernization encouraging people to modernize for the good of the country, he begins creating an Imperial Cult around himself modeled on that of Ancient Rome 100 small statues of Gojong modeled after the Augustus of Prima Porta statue are erected throughout Seoul, he    begins using newly formed newspapers and mass media to create an imperial cult of personality, giant portraits of Gojong are put up on all the Five Grand Palaces of the Joseon Dyansty as a display of the hard work he does for his people, as a result of massive taxes to fund his reforms learns about the Transcontinental Railroad, the Bessemer Process for steel, purchases a ColtM1877 Pistol, to take back to Korea for examination, and meets with President Chester A. Arthur The center of the city in Seoul in the year 1884 bowibu from its current number of 500 members to 10,000, he creates a new branch in the Gukga anjeon bowibu called the Korean Counterintelligence Corps (KCIC), a secret police force modeled after the Jinyiwei of Ming China and the Okhrana in Russia whose job is to suppress riots, persecute enemies of the state combat political terrorism and revolutionary activities and seek out information all under Gojong’s direct control men High School in Korea to create and mondernize a nationwide, economy, education system, land system, and military facilities textile factories, orders equipment from Russia, America, and France, he also orders the first steel mill, an old minimill to be built in Pohang, and Pig Iron foundries in every major city width, all sewage to be covered, sewers in every major city, and sanitation named Park Jung-yul he also orders the planning of school districts, and over the next 14 years, the number of schools in Korea will increase from 1,500 to 2,300, tuition is abolished. Approximately 13% of children attend school and start a shipbuilding operation The Independent the first newspaper in the country soldiers are trained soldiers 10 years with increasing investment from Russia Russia the 300-year 3-3.5% range Seoul to Incheon Paris urging good hygiene, no spitting, prevention of diseases, and properly disposing sewage and waste Posters from the Public Health Campaign population at 17,000,000, with 247,000 living in Seoul, 56,000 living in    Pusan and 40,000 living in Pyongyang 18% of children attend school now that tuition is abolished many more people can afford to attend school and parents are encouraged to force their kids to walk several miles if they have to so that they could attend school and become literate time China, and 13% in Japan in 1888, 200 tons of steel are produced up from 50 in 1888 Pyongyang, Taegu, Hanbat, Gwangju, Incheon, Ulsan, Nampo, Rason, and Sinuju are city-provinces gold standard the won, and starts issuing and circulating banknotes nationwide draft increasing the size of the army from its current size of 108,000, conscription is now compulsory with a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 10 years of service railroad line over the Han River to connect the city of Seoul through the Han River the National Museum of Korea, a museum who’s collection will grow to over 500,000 artifacts the capital in 1392, Seoul’s city limits are expanded from its current 13 square miles to 20 square miles all cities land areas are expanded by 50% parliament with 400 seats by Gojong changes his title from King to Emperor and establishes the Korean Empire, and appoints his best friend the second most powerful man in Korea, Kim Okgyum as the first Korean Prime Minister for the 500th Anniversary of the Joseon Dynasty, he establishes the nation’s first motto “Let the Land be Enlightened”, guided democracy where candidates approved by Gojong get elected similar to modern day Iran, Gojong redesignated his title to Emperor and his name to Gwangmu (Warrior of Light), he also makes it practice for people to hang pictures of him in their homes and on the streets, this transforms Korea’s status as a tributary vassal state to an    Small Power beginning of Gwangmu Era drafted, elections are held (rigged by Gojong), freedom of religion is    enacted the Imperialist Party holding 162 out of 300 seats in the Assembly, after the first election only 5,026 people voted farms are combined into large scale farms this will lead to larger yields and more rapid urbanization production more easier and efficient from investment from Russia Seoul to Pusan from Russia Cathedral in Korea, it also coincides with Gojong proclaiming Freedom of    Religion Celebration of the opening of the Seoul-Incheon railroad them arrested and killed up to 50,000 people are killed as a result plants families, and encourages them or orders them to start corporations and businesses based on their visions Donghak army forms who believe that the land reforms were to help only the rich landlords an army of 200,000 forms and is quickly defeated by the army newspapers report this as an attempt to overthrow the state  and open it to invaders, Gojong agrees to    their demands but tells them they will not tolerate riots and helps further cement his Imperial Cult Metric System as possible, and to curb infant mortality, he orders pregnancy clinics in    towns near rural areas, and awards families who have more than 10 children with water wells, and additional livestock and seeds Fair, it is also here where Korea learns of the technology to develop its first bolt-action rifle using magazine clips going to Russia of Seoul, as a commemoration to how far Korea has come during the 30 years of rule failed assassination attempt on the Emperor a Japanese assassin shoots Gojong, Gojong continues his speech as an influence for the nation in the spirit of work ethic and self-discipline, his injuries fully recover begins an economic partnership for German Empire expansion, and become trading partners built the KIS Guangje it has a displacement of 1,056 tons and armed with 2x80mm guns that cost 30% of the defense budget and took 5 years to build is    completed
 * 1880: Modern medicine is introduced to Korea
 * 1880: The Seoul Police Department is introduced
 * 1880: Korea’s population is 16,900,000, literacy is up
 * 1880: The urbanization rate is around 3 % in Korea, 4%
 * 1881: The bank of Korea is formed under Gojong’s orders
 * 1881: The Korean navy academy is founded
 * 1882: Gojong orders the first telegraph line to be
 * 1882: Gojong orders the look of modernization in the
 * 1882: Severe drought occurs, causing food shortages,
 * 1883: Gojong deploys a program to help the farmers who
 * 1883: Park Sung-min marries a 20 year old farm girl
 * 1884: July 12; Park Kwang-min dies at the age of 48
 * 1884: Daewoo the first modern corporation is founded
 * 1884: The Han-Nakdong-Taedong canal is completed it is
 * 1884: Construction of Hyundaegaehyuk (Modern, reform)
 * 1884: Gojong begins a propaganda campaign promoting
 * 1884: Gojong once again visits the United States,
 * 1885: Gojong orders expansion of the Gukga anjeon
 * 1885: Life expectancy rises to 27 for women and 24 for
 * 1885: Yonsei hospital founded, along with the University
 * 1885: Hangeung Secondary School is formed the first
 * 1886: Gojong sets out a plan over the next five years
 * 1886: Gojong orders the first modern manufacturing
 * 1886: Gojong orders all city roads to be doubled in
 * 1886: June 9; Park Sung-min and Im Sung-sook have a son
 * 1886: Gojong makes an proclamation freeing the slaves
 * 1886: Gojong makes Middle School education compulsory,
 * 1886: Gojong decides to start westernizing the military
 * 1887: First modern military academy founded, and many
 * 1887: Gojong begins a military buildup from 63,000
 * 1888: First Economic boom which will last over the next
 * 1888: Korea’s GDP surpasses $300-million
 * 1888: Korean exports reach $1,500,000 mostly with
 * 1888: Korea’s urbanization rate starts to increase from
 * 1888: Zeng Huangzhou dies at the age of 47
 * 1889: Construction on the first railroad begins from
 * 1889: Korea gets its first exhibit at a world’s fair in
 * 1889: Gojong creates a mass public health campaign
 * 1890: The first census is taken recording Korea’s
 * 1890: Seoul’s first train station opens
 * 1890: Korea joins the Universal Postal Union
 * 1890: The literacy rate of the nation is up to 31%, and
 * 1890: Korea’s GDP Per Capita surpasses $25
 * 1890: Park family farm gets irrigation for the first
 * 1890: The urbanization rate is 3.3% in Korea, 4-4.5% in
 * 1890: Korea produces 1,500 tons of Pig Iorn, up from 300
 * 1891: The eight provinces, are redrawn, Seoul, Pusan,
 * 1891: Korea establishes it’s new currency based on the
 * 1891: Foundation of the Imperial Korean Army, issues a
 * 1891: Gojong orders construction on the Seoul-Pyongyang
 * 1891: Korea’s GDP surpasses $400-million
 * 1891: Completion of the Hangang Bridge the first bridge
 * 1891: Gojong orders construction of Korea’s first museum
 * 1891: For the first time since the city was designated
 * 1892: Gojong creates the first National Assembly as a unicameral
 * 1892: Establishment of Phase Two of the Gwangmu Reform
 * 1892: July 17; Using his newly formed imperial cult Gojong
 * 1892: With the new constitution for the Korean Empire
 * 1892: The majority party in the national assembly are
 * 1892: Gojong makes an agricultural reform where small
 * 1892: Park family farm gets expanded makes farm
 * 1892: The Seoul-Incheon railroad opens thanks to help
 * 1892: Gojong orders construction on a railroad from
 * 1892: First immigration of 100 Koreans to Hawaii
 * 1892: First tram lines open in Seoul, with equipment
 * 1892: Myeongdong Cathedral is built the first Caothlic
 * 1892-93: Gojong lists pro-Japanese conspirators and has
 * 1893: Gojong orders electric power plants, and coal
 * 1893: The Hanseong Electric Company is founded
 * 1893: Gojong gathers the heads of the wealthiest
 * 1893: July – October; Following the land reforms the
 * 1893: Gojong orders Korea to start converting to the
 * 1893: Gojong encourages people to have as many children
 * 1893: Korea has its own exhibit at the Chicago World’s
 * 1893: Korean exports reach $5,300,000 with $3,000,000
 * 1894: Construction of the first streetlamps in the city
 * 1894: The Seoul-Pyongyang railroad is completed
 * 1894: A group of pro-Japanese nationalists stage a
 * 1894: Korea and Germany enter into an alliance, Korea
 * 1894: The first battleship of the Korean military is

suppressed to the newly enlarged Korean military with the death of 200,000 rebels and prompts the Gabo Reforms bank
 * 1894: Donghak Rebellion is quickly
 * 1894: Woori Bank becomes the nation’s first investment

sends 8,000 troops into Korea to secure rights, the Korean army repels the soldiers loses its prestige, and Japan recognizes Korean independence in the Treaty of Shimonoseki(시모노세키[하완] 조약,下関條約), despite Korea being transferred to the Japanese Sphere of Influence although the Treaty secretly places Korea under Japan’s sphere of    influence from 3.0% in 1888 to 5.2% loaded 5 shot bolt-action rifle, the military’s size has increased to 235,000 thanks to the war of 1894-95, it begins mass producing rifles as quickly as possible the military is led by General Yun Ung-Nyeol attempt on Empress Min, and kill the would be assassins Japanese assassins leaves Prime Minister Kim Ogkyum mortally wounded and killed, Gojong continues his speech right immediately after the violence as an example of self-discipline, and self-determination Commerce America and Britain to negotiate the existence of the Korean Empire as its own nation only successful in America and France men The city of Seoul in the year 1895 of 250,000 led by Marshal Yun Ung-Nyeol who will become known as the “Napoleon of the East” now possible to travel from Seoul to Pusan in just a mere 17 hours down from 3 days at a speed of 31-mph, using the Mogul Class 2-6-0 Trains will grow up to be very bitter and hateful of Koreans then later to have disdain for foreigners in general because of his life experiences colonization plans, disposes of him, and later has him executed from the Japanese Empire reforms the tax collection system into a progressive income tax where the top tax rate is 7.5% and the bottom tax rate is 2.5% due to treason, and conspiring against the Empire with Japan, he is later sentenced and executed soldiers for the next year and a half during this time Hunglo forms a    hatred of Koreans as his wife is raped and he is beaten by Korean soldiers passing through and the farm is looted Park family to attend school miles, the city walls are removed except for the gates which are kept as    landmarks, the city has expanded south to the River Gojong felt had belonged to Korea since the ancient Balhae Kingdom, then invades Primorski Krai, signing the Treaty of Manchong with China giving the Most Favored Nation status to the Korean Empire annexing the Provinces of Xing’an, Jilin, Fengtian, Heilongjang adding 479,000 square miles to    the Korean Empire increasing its size from 85,270 square miles to 564,570 square miles in just under 18 months changing the names of the cities the capital from Shengjing to Shiangju, Changchun to Chunwon, Harbin to Haebu, they are allowed to keep the culture and traditions, but from now on the official language in Manchuria is Korean, and all names are Koreanized, and all works must be published in Hangul, Manchuria is renamed to Koguryo, 108,000 Korean soldiers are killed along with 466,000 out of 900,000 Chinese soldiers with an additional 150,000 captured, Korea also agrees on    free-trade with Russia, Korea signs a Treaty with China giving Korea the most favored nation status saying that now China must pay Korea tribute or    Beijing will be invaded this is the Treaty of Mukden Korean troops marching through the city of Mukden regional power, and sends a message to the West that Korea is now the land power in the East not China, although Japan is still the most modern, powerful nation, and the biggest Marine power. China’s loss of Manchuria causes China’s Manchu Emperor the Guangxu Emperor extreme embarrassment and fuels faction politics in China that eventually place the Emperor into House Arrest, Manchurians are forced to surrender all power, and forbidden from holding positions of    power as revenge for 1636, all ownership of lands, farms, businesses are removed from their owners and given to Korean ownership, Manchurians become second/third class citizens in their own country however all their cultural and language traditions are still allowed to be taught in schools and allowed in public for now Russia with Russia giving Korea full rights to Manchuria as Korean territory, independence and protection from Japan or any other nation, giving Japan full rights to Taiwan, and all the Pacific Islands, the Hanian Island, and giving both Russia and Japan rights to China outside of    Manchuria, the Treaty also serves Russia’s interests because Russians are allowed trade and influence in Manchuria as well, this transforms Korea’s status to a “Middle Power”, also now China is to pay tribute to Korea to Britain the Chinese and make it a colony using the Sino-Korean War as an    opportunity to take the Island of Hainan increasing the size of their empire to 174,000 square miles Korean soldiers marching near Dalian living in Shanghai dies he says while disgraced and ashamed of his son he    is also amazed by his son’s achievements and determination and thinks that he is doing a good job as King them seized by Koreans becoming tenant farmers working for no pay almost member wouldn’t surpass again until 1904 hours, at a speed of 37-mph as the 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler replaces the 2-6-0 for passenger services and freight is replaced by the 2-8-0 Consolidation Red Cross Korean campaign poster “do your duty join the military” Siberian tigers, ostriches, camels, orangutans, and other animals the Western world and becomes recognized by Japan, and the Industrialized world as a regional power, Korea agrees at the Hague Conference to end the war with Russia annexing Primorski Krai renaming it Goryeong, Gojong wanted to recover the territories of the ancient Goguryeo and Balhae Kingdoms held, this also creates a direct border to Russia, and allows Russia to into China for Chinese resources along with much more efficient construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad Manchurian Plane be shipped to Korea because of a severe ENSO drought that will last until 1902, and absolute control of their resources, these are seen as reparations for the Manchu invasions of the 1600s from Pyongyang to Mukden Invasion to capture the Kuril Islands adding another 4,000 square miles occupation during the Boxer Rebellion and sides with the Nine Nation Alliance, Korea gets its own concession in the city of Tiensten Korea, 13 million living in Koguryo, the total population of the empire is    31,500,000 with 457,000 living in Seoul, 207,000 living in Pusan, and 129,000 living in Pyongyang, and 54,000 living in Incheon, with 462 Koreans living in America, and 26,000 living in Russia in Korea the rate is 6.8%, and in Japan its 14% public schools ·       1900: Korea sends 23,000 troops over the Yalu River to secure their new gains
 * 1894-95: China sends 3,000 troops into Manchuria, Japan
 * 1895: Japan defeats China and annexes Taiwan. Qing China
 * 1895: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 5%, rises
 * 1895: Korea makes its first modern invention the clip
 * 1895: The Gukga anjeon bowibu foil an assassination
 * 1895: A second failed attempt on Gojong’s life by a
 * 1895: 30 merchants establish the Hansung Chamber of
 * 1895: September – January: Gojong travels to France,
 * 1895: Life expectancy rises to 32 for women and 28 for
 * 1895: Korea University is established
 * 1896: March 17: Korea invades Manchuria, with an army
 * 1896: Seoul-Pusan Railroad is finally completed, it is
 * 1896: There is 500 miles of rail in Korea
 * 1896: March 18; Zeng Hunglo has a son Zeng Xiahung he
 * 1896: Gojong discovers Lee Wan-Yong’s pro-Japanese
 * 1896: May 20: Korea captures the Liaodong Peninsula
 * 1896: In order to finance the war in Manchuria Gojong
 * 1896: Prime Minister Lee Wan-yong is forced to resign
 * 1897: Korea’s GDP surpasses $500-million
 * 1897: The Zeng family farm is occupied by Korean
 * 1897: Park Jong-yul becomes the first member of the
 * 1897: Seoul’s city limits are expanded to 26 square
 * 1897: September 7; Korea captures Manchuria which
 * 1897: The capturing of Koguryo establishes Korea as a
 * 1897: Korea signs the Balhae Treaty with Japan and
 * 1897: Qingdo is leased to Germany and Weihai is leased
 * 1897: The Japanese capture the island of Hainan from
 * 1898: Daewongun now 78 years old, who has become a recluse
 * 1898: Many Manchurian farmers lose their lands having
 * 1898: Park Jong-yul becomes the first literate family
 * 1898: Korean exports reach $26,000,000 a level it
 * 1898: Travel time from Seoul to Pusan decreases to 11
 * 1898: Korea joins the International Committee of the
 * 1899: Seoul Grand Park opens as Korea’s first Zoo with
 * 1899: Korea defeats the Russian army at Primorski Krai shocking
 * 1899: Korea demands that surplus crops from the
 * 1899: Gojong orders construction of a railroad line
 * 1899: Japan uses the distraction of the Primorsky
 * 1899-1900: Korea sends 100,000 troops to Manchuria for
 * 1900: Korea’s population is 18 million living within
 * 1900: Construction begins on the Pohang Steel Works
 * 1900: Urbanization rate in  Manchuria is 4%, in China its around 4%,
 * 1900: There are now 2,300 schools in Korea including 400

·       1900: Korea sends 185,000 troops into China to fight the Boxer Rebellion

·       1900: August 11; Korean troops invade Beijing, and help suppress the rebellion

·       1900: June 2nd; Kim Jong-soon dies a month before her 60th birthday

·       1900: After over 2 years of intense fighting Korea captures Primorski Krai increasing the size of the Korean Empire further to 625,100 square miles, shocking the western world, and officially becoming the second regional power and nation to capture a Western countries territory after Japan, and offers as reparations to Russia, to build the Trans-Siberian railway from Vladivostok (though this will be done using forced labor from Colonial Manchus, offering Russia and the West access to Chinese resources through Manchuria, this in turn starts in Russia what would eventually turn into the Russian Revolution.  Gojong agrees with Nicholas II on a trade partnership, Korea will trade textiles, ceramics, cotton, iron in exchange for industrial equipment, and continue free trade becoming partners and that Korea will no longer fight any war against Russia this sparks brief protests all across Russia    Train line     of steel are produced     active and 435,000 on reserve as a result of the 1897-99 Conquests of     Northeast Asia     connecting Korea to Manchuria     children attend school a massive increase from just 13% attending school     just 15 years earlier this causes a construction boom with many new     schools being built helping industrialize the nation One of the many of hundreds of new schools being built throughout the country Japan’s rights in Korea, and Britain’s rights in China Alliance arranges a meeting with Korean Prime Minister Yu Kil-chun, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, French President Emile Loubet, and Chinese Emperor Guangxu in Seoul to sign a treaty with Russia, France and China being forced to seed its own territory to foreign world powers this will be    known as the Seoul Treaty. The alliance gives France’s rights to China seceding the Chinese provinces of    Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong, giving France 380,000 square miles from China. Russia also gets rights to China seceding Outer and Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang instantly adding 2,000,000 square miles to the Russian Empire as reparations for Primorski, and Korea’s rights to Independence from Japan while China gets independence from China, British Empire and America, its own sphere of    influence, this becomes known as the Franco-Russo-Koryo-Alliance, the total size of Qing China decreases from 5,675,000 square miles in 1880 to    2,770,000 square miles in 1905, as France and Korea agree to be trading partners in free trade, Gojong sees this as revenge for the centuries of    force payment of tribute and also a way to isolate China and protect it     from Japan, this officially grants Korea Great Power status only from France and Russia, to the rest of the Great Powers it is still just a    Regional Power the worst years for China during the Century of Humiliation are 1851-64, 1891-1911, and 1937-45 Colonial Government Building Complex taking up the entire complex of Mukden Palace which is deconstructed after being deliberately burnt to the ground, Beiling Tomb and Garden is deconstructed and replaced with a prison complex Imperial Prison used to house captured Chinese soldiers during the 1896-97 Invasion, and later Independence Activists agricultural state under orders of Gojong where it is estimated that over the next 5 years about 2 million Manchurians will die of famine a 500,000 square foot palace with running water, electricity, telephone, and telegraph The newly built Hyundaegaehyuk Palace after almost 20 years of construction Korean Governor of Manchuria Jang In-hwan orders the process of Koreanization (or Koreafication) of the massive region from now on Manchurians are forbidden from learning and speaking Chinese or Manchu language, practicing Manchu or Chinese culture, Gojong creates a policy of    Koreanization “One Nation, One Language, One Culture” this is solely based on Russification policies of the Russian Empire, Manchurians are forced to    adopt variations of the Hangul alphabet, a system of apartheid is created, those who emigrated to urban areas as a result of having their farms confiscated by the Koreans who are able to find jobs in the cities are not allowed to own or run any private buisnesses, buisnesses or shops which were run by Manchurians and Chinese are commandeered and owners are forcefully removed, farms and land owned by Manchurians and Chinese are comindered and the owners of the land now work to pay rent on the land, there are no opportunities for any advancement in any careers, they are banned from holding any public jobs, and in most cases for the same jobs and equal work Manchurians are paid only 25% of what non-Manchurians are paid for the same exact work and whenever they’re not passed up for work it is usually the worst, dirtiest, most dangerous, and degrading jobs available battleship a 340 foot long cruiser with 10 8” guns and has a displacement of 4,000 tons capable of carrying 300 soldiers stations in Korea connecting Korea to China by rail by French sociologist Emile Durkheim and begins applying Durkheim’s theories into his policies of industrialization miles to 60 square miles Progress in the city of Seoul right by the Bank in 1903 party coming to power and Colonial Governor Jang In-hwan elected to the position of Vice Prime Minister under Prime Minister Yu Kil-chun; Jang In-hwan orders schools in Manchuria that anyone caught speaking Chinese or    Manchu or wearing Chinese or Manchu clothing will be severely punished, Korean will be taught as a first language, English, Russian, and French will be taught as second languages, however Manchu/Chinese can be taken as    an elective and speaking Manchu/Chinese along with practicing the culture are allowed only in private all Manchurian newspapers, books, and printing operations are seized and shutdown only the ones operated by foreigners remained open, and all Manchurian ran buisnesses are shut down, all operations and prints in Chinese/Manchu language or seized and burned in    the public, Gojong disagrees with this process calling it Cultural Genocide, but as long as they keep making the country stronger help advance and industrialize and promote the monarchy fueling his imperial cult he lets them stay in power owned by Chinese are forcefully taken over by Koreans sold to Korean businessmen and workers if they are natives are beaten for not reaching quotas Incheon Incident during the Russian-Japanese War, Japan agrees to keep soldiers off of Korean territories (for now) ·       1904: First Modern Korean Luxury Hotel Resort is built in Seoul the Koryo Hotel after Gojong orders all the martial arts styles of all the Kwans (Martial    Arts Schools) mixing the arts of Taekkyeon, Subak, and shotokan Karate together although for 50 years it is called Tae Soo Do until 1954 when Choi Hong-hi reforms the style ·       1904: Pukyong University founded the first modern university outside Seoul Korean landlord who force the Zeng family to become land tenants and pay rent for living on their own land this is when the 8 year old Xiahung starts forming his hatred and bitterness towards Koreans support Russia in the Russo-Koryo-Japanese War in turn for continued control and influence in Manchuria people voted that Gojong took personally in the late-1890s that Koreans were backwards he orders Korea’s pavilion to include a 30-meter tall 2,650 square meter structure based on a traditional Korean architecture and another 700 square meter 3 story structure right beside it Campaign poster “The More We Progress; The More We Produce; The More We Thrive” National Progress Exposition counter the Japanese during the 2nd Battle of Port Author marking a turning point in the 1904-05 conflict that they know what the Japanese are up to and need a Japanese controlled Korea to get around the Japanese naval blockade of Korea and into Chinese resources, the US also get control of the Philippines from this deal, public outrage against the United States sparks riots in Seoul, Taegu, Pyongyang Koreans defeat the Japanese Army at Mukden ending the war Military, 132,000 active and 604,000 in reserve as a result of the 1904-05 War, though they are ordered by the US, British Empire, and Japan to start downsizing to 50,000 by 1910 Advance of Korean and Russian troops during the Battle of Mukden the past 10 years setting up several schools in the Hwanghae-do Province is commissioned by Gojong to create the Rural Enlightenment Drive an    organization to help educate people living in rural areas and set up     schools in rural regions the United States Japanese control of gained Russian Territories mainly Sakhalin Oblast, the Kuril Islands, and the Kamchatka Peninsula  (adding 138,000 square miles) but argues that Japan is not allowed into any Korean territory and Korea is not allowed into any Russian territory this is a major blow to the Russians the goal of this is to blockade the Koreans into submission take Western Empires territory and to establish themselves as a world power this increases the size of the Imperial Japanese Empire to 316,000 square miles men Pyongyang, Pusan, and Seoul, and tram systems for every city that had more than 20,000 people in the 1900 census United States, Seoul becomes the first city in the Far East to have electricity, telephone, telegraph, sewers, running water, trolley cars, streetlights, trains, and automobiles at the same exact time that they are their own independent Empire but once again to no avail thanks to the Japanese-Anglo Alliance One of the first cotton mills in Seoul 1906 treaty Poland the city of Taegu Motors in 1925, and Hyundai Heavy Industries in 1928)    Conference, but is no longer viewed as an independent nation by the world     powers with the exception of France, Russia, and Germany, Korea attends     the conference with three delegates     Korea, the US passes the Korean-Exclusion Act, sparking outrages and riots     as a result     stations in Korea The city of Pyongyang in 1908     athletes to participate for the first time at the Olympic Games in London,     although they would win no medals until 1924      causes trade with Russia to explode      children attend school      a time of 7.5 hours as the 4-4-2 Milwaukee replaces the 4-6-0 for     passenger services      to Asia, causing a sharp rise in crop production      going to Russia     which 50,000 of them are Koreans they use the city as a port to go around     the North of Japan to get around Japan’s Naval Blockade long carrier with a displacement of 15,000 tons capable of carrying 2-10” guns, 4-8” guns, 8-8” guns, and 16-4” guns along with 700 soldiers Seoul in the year 1909 rejects the Japanese-Korean Treaty immediately after France and Russia form one in order to be the only alliance where all three countries have an air-force the top income tax rate from 10% to 25% and the bottom tax rate from 2.5% to 5% Japan-Korea Annexation treaty of 1910, leading to the start of the First Japanese-Korean War, the first time in 312 years; the American’s and the British side with the Japanese, and the Russians side with the Koreans sending them supplies through the new Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia sends supplies and troops through the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Korean Military is led by General Yun Chi-sung and Marshal Yi Sang-ryong the population of Colonial Manchuria is 16,000,000 total population of the Korean Empire is 38,600,000 with 1,021,000 living in Seoul, 268,000 living in Pyongyang, 171,000 in Incheon, and 405,000 in Pusan, with  1,860 Koreans living in America, and 107,000 living in Russia rate of 4.5%, in Korea its 13%, and in Japan its 16% built the first airport in Asia 20 year old Kim Chwa-chin the son of a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage graduates from the Korean Imperial Military Academy at the top of    his class and is commissioned as a Sowi (Second Lieutenant) he will come out of the 1910-13 War as a Daewi (Captain), second to graduate the class is future Five-Star General Ji Cheong-cheon Class of 1909, followed by    Hong Sa-ik top of class in 1911, and Kim Suk-won class of 1912 there HQ is located they are made up of the 1st Division and 6th Infantry Division fight in a war since 1592-98 ride in a train are produced up the Peninsula making it into the southern city limits of Seoul are pushed back off to Osan, then advance again only to find themselves stuck in a trench war stalemate along the 37th parallel a hunter before the war who records 279 kills in just 78 days, this gets the attention of Gojong who was so impressed that he orders Hong to set up    sharp shooting brigades (later known as Sniper brigades) and teach soldiers his snipping methods the Japanese send out several soldiers to    find this man only to never hear from them again which results in many civilian deaths Japanese soldiers where over the war 70,000 Japanese soldiers will be    killed there and an elaborate system of execution where the severity of     the execution depends on the rank of importance enlisted soldiers are simply shot, Lieutenants and Captains (Korean equivalent of Company Grade    Officers) are hanged, Majors, Lieutenant Colonels, and Colonels (Korean     equivalent of Field Grade Officers) are dismembered, and General Officers are slow sliced then their heads are put on display at prison camps it is    this brutality that helps lead to the mentality among Japanese officers that it is better to die then surrender Troops during the occupation of Seoul Oyama Iwao is captured during a surprise attack on a Japanese camp while he is there he is taken prisoner and decided to be tortured to death but Gojong intervenes knowing that he is a Prince and states that if they kill one of the royal Japanese family they will have Japanese continuing to    attack them in never ending waves, and instead decides to be made an     example of having one arm, one leg, and one eye removed Diabetes, Gojong is overjoyed by this news, and the new Emperor Taisho, is    much more willing to end the war, which turning out to be a very embarrassing pointless costly disaster for Japan and devastating for Korea he begins ordering no more troops to be sent to Korea considering Japan is    starting to run short on manpower for the war after this point the Koreans start to push the Japanese back from the 37th Parallel very slowly are pushed off the mainland, the war kills nearly 2,500,000 people, 1,900,000 Korean, and 600,000 Japanese, Japan agrees to end the naval blockade of Korea and end all colonization attempts of Korea under the Osaka Treaty, 600,000 of the 1,400,000 Japanese soldiers involved, and 400,000 of 1,100,000 Korean soldiers involved, and 1,500,000 civilians, the war accomplishes nothing except to only amplify the already burning hatred between the two nations, this causes Japanese Prime Minister Yammamato Gonnohyoe to be immediately ousted and replaced only to be brought back two months later, the defeat of the Japanese now gets it Independent Empire status acknowledged by the British Empire and the Industrialized West not only that but now gives it the status as a “Great Power” where before they had been a Regional Power, where just over 2 decades Korea has transformed itself on the world stage from a Small Tributary State to a    World Power up until the depression the average fertility rate of Korea will be    greater than 7 children peaking at 8.5 in 1917, this would be key to the Korean Military’s large numbers in WWII President Wilson to repair damages from the war, and makes an alliance with the United States, Gojong also befriends President Wilson, and signs the Korea-American Alliance Treaty, when he returns home he orders Steel Works in Pohang and Hamhung be rebuilt modeled after the Gary Works in    America to end the 1910-13 War farm girl together they will have 11 children, 2 of whom will die in    infancy 230,000 active, and 1,500,000 reserves as a result of the 1910-13 War establishment of the Republic of China the Korean government ends the demands of tribute from China and apologizes for the 1903 treaty and agrees to help out the Chinese nationalists passenger train in the city of Seoul colonization Gojong places a ban on Japanese cultural imports, this ban will remain in effect until 1983 anniversary of Gojong’s rule, it is a mass celebration celebrated with a    giant parade where nearly 500,000 people attend, the largest fireworks display Korea has ever held is displayed during this mass celebration with 10,000 fireworks set off World War I, sends 250,000 soldiers to aid Russia as a result of the Franco-Russo-Koryo Alliance President Raymond Poincare, to manufacture and send military equipment to    Russia and France to aid France and Russia in their war efforts, and to     boost Korean industry, and to further strengthen the Franco-Russo-Koryo Alliance children attend school pro-Japanese conspirators and suspected Manchurian independence activists to    have them executed and blames the deaths on the Japanese roughly 180,000 random Manchurians are round up and executed Manchuria mining for coal creates a dust explosion that leaves 1,143 dead this is the catalyst for the April 20th movement movement, leads to a fake provisional government governor position for Manchuria, ran by a Manchu, and Manchurians are allowed to keep some of    their surplus crops, and the Manchurian/Chinese cultural ban is lifted with Koreans feeling sympathetic to the Manchurians by this point after being invaded by the Japanese, followed after failed attempted Japanese assimilation during 1905-13 it was a peaceful demonstration that was violently suppressed with 4,000 casualties and 50,000 arrests the alliance during World War I    how far it had during Gojong’s 50 years but is canceled as a result of the 1910-13 War following his entry into the Korean Imperial Military Advanced Program meaning he is now promoted from a Company grade officer to a Field grade officer capita is $53 loses the Shandong Peninsuala to Japan and invades the rest of Peninsuala outside of German Kiautschou annexing the province of Shandong adding another 61,000 Square Miles to the Imperial Japanese Empire increasing the size to 376,000 square miles Port of Pusan in 1915 Airport from Pyongyang to Seoul to Pusan men commissioned by Gojong as the first modern University in Manchuria miles long building in Seoul it will be a 650,000-sqft complex with a 272’ dome completed in 1929 at a cost of $11,000,000 child a son named Jong-sil they had a daughter in 1914, they will have a    eleven kids two will die in infancy, daughters born in 1914, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, and 1926, and sons born in 1915, 1918, 1921, 1924, and 1927 the third and fourth son will die in the war the second and fourth daughter died in infancy Mass Industrialization Campaign “Industrialization or Japanese Subjugation” commissioned by both Gojong and Sunjong, it is the first Public University in Korea, Lee Hyo-seok is its first president become eventually the main conservative party in the nation they take 143 of 400 seats in The Assembly airmail from Manchuria across the Peninsula possible modern sports arena built in Korea originally seating 60,000 based on    Harvard Stadium it cost $150,000 to build story 190 foot tall structure the tallest structure in the city for the next 9 years Antarctica to Korea finally completed it was built using free labor from the Manchus who were beaten for not meeting schedule targets explosion in Busan kills 539 people the Korea Imperial Military Academy once again at the top of his class he    is then promoted to Jungnyeong (Lieutenant Colonel) and put in charge of     the 106th Infantry at the Seoul Academy while there he sees the dire absolute poverty of the rapidly growing overcrowded city in the shanty towns right by the Military Academy and makes one of his priorities in life to end extreme poverty in his country three months later he is    shipped off to Russia to lead Korean troops on the Eastern Front in World War I    hours at a top speed of 60mph as passenger service the 4-4-2 is replaced by the faster 4-6-2 Karoo trains for passenger service and 2-8-2 Mikado for freight service The Korean Imperial Capital Building get along better with the Industrialized nations, to become a    constitutional monarchy republic based on England’s system, where a     president will be elected every 5 years serving under the emperor, creating the First Republic, and creates the Ministries of Prime Minister, Finance, Education, Foreign Affiars, Justice, National Defense, Gojong does this knowing his oldest son Sunjong is sort of a slacker, and his second son Yuljong appoints his good friend Park Eun-sik to run for president how far Korea has come on the 25th Anniversary of the Declaration of Empire, and a Gojong Museum is opened showing how far the country had come during his reign all for the benefit of the Korean People, on July 17th Massive celebrations and parades are held throughout the nation constitution begins the First Korean Republic after being rejected Asylum by both Britain and France Guinea adding 96,300 square miles to their Empire increasing their size to    470,000 square miles captures it in just 28 days the world giant mass celebration, writes plans for a Korea of the 1920s included a    city wide subway system in Seoul based on the London Underground, major steelworks in Pohang, citywide electrification in every city over 100,000 people, the first radio station, and safe decent housing to deal with the shanty town problems in the cities Grand Nationalist Party (GNP) coming to power in Korea and a newly elected President Park Eun-sik, President Park Eun-sik reinstates the Manchu/Chinese cultural, language, religion, customs ban in Manchuria except this time not only are children severely punished in school for speaking Chinese or Manchu or wearing Chinese/Manchu clothing in school, but people are fired from their jobs, and deemed unemployable for the same offenses, use of Chinese or Manchu languages or wearing Manchu/Chinese clothing or practicing Manchu/Chinese customs in public places is banned as well, there are recorded instances where Manchurians are beaten, tortured, and sometimes even killed as punishment for speaking their own language or practicing their own culture on their own soil, this almost ruins his friendship with Gojong who calls this policy “Cultural Genocide” the goal of this policy is complete assimilation Elevated railway over the growing shantytown problem Seoul named Park Byung-ho displacement of 41,000 long tons, armed with 4x2 16” guns, 7 x 21 inch torpedoes and 12 x 1 10” guns, capable of carrying 1,300 soldiers the ship is called the KIS Gojong it took 5 years to build founded by Gojong the Balhae Colonial Province during the Russian Civil War, though fights break out between 75,000 Korean troops and 28,000 Japanese troops on    control of the Primorski region of Siberia in Pusan exports increases from $40,000,000 in 1913 to $153,000,000 in 1918 the compulsory conscription’s required service time from 3 to 10 years to    24 to 36 months Russian Revolution into Manchuria social and economic progress made in Manchuria since 1897 thanks to the Koreans (this is done for nationalist purposes) Pohang Steel and Iron works 1918 315,000 active and 2,445,000 on reserve thanks to World War I and the 1910-13 Japanese Invasion, the active troops are stationed throughout Manchuria to keep the Manchu population in check although unwarranted random beatings, and raping are reported and go unpunished on a regular basis excessive coffee consumption and 100-hour work-week dies of a sudden heart attack at 18:38, and Sunjong becomes emperor gives more power to the Assembly, and the people, while leaving some power to himself; the list of    Gojong’s reforms and changes are endless and relentless. Beginning in 1870, in less than 50 years he would transform a backwards, illiterate, feudal, isolated, primitive, agricultural kingdom cut off from the entire world, into a modern industrializing, empire capable of ending Russian expansion in the Far East and standing up to Japan’s Imperial plans for taking over Asia, and taking large amounts of land from China, with alliances all over the world. In short he singlehandedly dragged Korea into the modern era kicking and screaming. His actions, reforms, and policies united the Koreans gave them self-confidence and a renewed cultural identity. The total population under his reign increased from 17,000,000 to 27,000,000 with the urban population going from 500,000 to over 5,500,000, industrial production 50-folded, external trade 200-folded, he also gave the nation much needed renewed self-confidence, and inspired generations of bold leaders, he showed the world how one person could singlehandedly advance a nation so much in his own lifetime, and became a symbol of modernization. Many studies on modernization have focused on Korea under his reign. He even influenced future foreign leaders as an example of modernization Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Gamal Nasser, Lee Kwan-yew, Indira Gandhi, Mahathair Mohammad, and Deng Xiaoping. Even though he was a monarch his style of rule was extremely autocratic and even resembled that of communist dictators, he is a controversial figure. He was in power during the terms of 15 UK Prime Ministers, 12 US    Presidents, 10 Japanese Prime Ministers (the first in 1885), 9 French Presidents, 5 Ottoman Sultans, 4 Russian Tsars, 4 Popes (2 of whom ruled    more than 20 years), 3 Japanese Emperors, 4 German Monarchs, 3 British Monarchs, and 3 Chinese Emperors, several monarchies saw their end during his reign yet the Korean Monarchy was stronger than ever although many outside of Korea think of him as a tyrant involved in the deaths of 3-million people in the Massacres, Expansionist Wars, and Colonization of Manchuria massive public funeral where over a million mourners attend his Empire, which included, a subway system, and a hydroelectric plant, along with a national health insurance Manchuria where he tries to educate and end discrimination against the native population the Conservatives move him here in order to silence him and prevent him from spreading his Anti-Colonial, Anti-Imperialist, Pro-Democracy views in the Cabinet children attend school surpasses the population of Tokyo thus becoming the largest city in Asia a    title it will hold until 1980s Shanghai production is 300,000 tons making it the wealthiest nation in The East though this wealth is very concentrated in the hands of a few Funeral of Gojong the Great Conference led by Yi Dong-neyong demands, protection from Japan, permanent alliance with the Allies and as long as Japan are with the Allies that there would be no war between them, and $10 million in    reparations in the Assembly increase in the past 34 years than 1,000,000 people voted peninsula, 23,000,000 living in Manchuria, 52 million people live in the Korean Empire with 2,361,000 living in Seoul, 1,164,000 living in Pusan, 647,000 living in Pyongyang, 249,000 living in Shiangju, 394,000 living in    Incheon, 179,000 living in Haebu, 235,000 in Daegu, and 156,000 living in     Chunwon, and 24,326 Koreans living in America, and 172,000 in Russia is 6%, Japan’s rate is 18%, and Korea’s is 22% water construction in Seoul manufacturer, although by this point they only manufacture steel tubing and bicycles give him aid, weapons, and supplies only if once they’re in power that they recognize Korea’s full rights to Manchuria after the end of their civil war, to continue good terms with Russia, starting a tolerance with the Soviet Union, others say this is to spite Japan after the Japanese troops withdraw even though Vladivostok has grown into a Port City with 230,000 people half of them being either Colonial Manchu-Chinese or Korean Governorship and made Minister of Education there he becomes the voice of    the Opposition to the Imperialists, Syngman Rhee will take over as     Colonial Governor until 1931 created it opens at 10.24 reach their current size the city of Seoul is expanded from 110 square miles the size it had been since 1914 to 233 square miles becoming the first Asian city to surpass 3,000,000 people the following year growing from 435,000 tons in 1922 to 586,000 tons in 1923 and Sunjong by a Communist revolutionary, Sunjong makes a decree banning all Fascist and Communist organizations and parties as a response to the Russian Revolution and Fascist takeover of Italy Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek and agrees to help him set up an army into what would become the Chinese force known as the National Revolutionary Army and that he will supply them with weapons Progress in Seoul in the year 1923 Olympics winning 2 silver, and 1 bronze, first Korean medal winner is    runner Lee Yoon-Eun silver for the marathon despite only being 7.8 km long, these come in handy during the bombing of    Seoul in 1939, the first Asian city to have a subway station that will become KBS AM1 (Colonel) where is placed as Commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment a Regiment of 2,000 men he will head for the next 11 years produced that year ends as the National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing and Sun Yat-sen becomes the President of China a 18 story building the first building in Seoul taller than 200 feet it    will be the tallest building in the city for the next 33 years is 931,000 tons children attend school popular Korean song humble, indifferent emperor who hated the public spotlight, and having no    children he is succeeded by his younger brother Yujong who noted for a     stubborn, rebellious, idealistic personality is very much his father’s son role and directed by Na Un-gyu, the film causes a nationwide sensation it    depicts life under Japanese imperialism and Occupation of southern territories from 1910-13 as well as the story of a young idealist struggling to find his own identity in an oppressive imperialist Korea in    a new modern world who eventually ends up in prison at the end, the film sells 3,600,000 admissions becoming the first film to break the 1,000,000 admissions mark, the black and white silent film is made to help the Korean people obtain their own national identity for the new modern world and display the negative effects of imperialism, the film was made on a    $15,000 budget this is the first in a large series of nationalist anti-Japanese, anti-Imperialist films in the “Golden Age of Korean Silent Film” Seoul there he becomes the voice of the liberal opposition and 45 minutes at a new top speed of 68 mph from more advanced 4-6-4 locomotives as freight service the 2-8-2 is replaced by the 2-10-4 Texas Pohang Steel and Iron Works in the year 1926 the vote the first election where a Park family member votes Jong-yul votes for Yi in the election Korea, two large steel mills in Korea, one in Pohnag with a capacity of 1,400,000 tons, and another in Hamhung with a capacity of 700,000 tons father and grandfather who show bitterness and hatred towards Koreans his hatred and bitterness is towards the Japanese Qingx’ha comes out showing the harshness of Korean rule in Manchuria it is    considered one of the greatest Manchu movies ever made Daegu, it wouldn’t go into the electronics making industry for another 30 years seats in the Assembly act attend high school Police in Shenyang, for trying to consolidate his power, and declare Manchuria Independent, peaceful demonstrations break out all across Manchuria but they are all brutally suppressed age 61 and is succeeded by Chiang Kai-shek an Manchurian Independence Activist, Yi Dong-nyeong orders search all of    Manchuria and round up any suspected independence activists, and greatly lightens the Koreanization laws Zuolin is kidnapped in his sleep and tortured to death wealthiest country in the Far East with a GDP Per Capita of $85 roughly 1/10th as wealthy as the United States,  and its GDP surpasses $3-billion City of Seoul by the year 1929
 * 1900: Construction starts on the Vladivostok-Shenyang-Pyongyang
 * 1900: 8,000 tons of pig iron are produced, 1,200 tons
 * 1901: The Korean Military now has 513,000 soldiers 78,000
 * 1901: The first bridge over the Yalu River is completed
 * 1901: 55% of the population are literate, and 43% of
 * 1902: Japan signs a treaty with Britain that recognizes
 * 1902: June 2; Gojong of Korea in response to the Japanese-Anglo
 * 1902: Construction begins on the massive Korean
 * 1902: The first Movie Theater Cinema is built in Seoul
 * 1902: Korea begins using Manchuria as a collectivist
 * 1902: Hyundaegaehyuk Palace is finally completed it is
 * 1903: Following the now complete control of Manchuria, The
 * 1903: The Korean empire builds its first ever modern
 * 1903: There are 1,000 miles of rail and 200 rail
 * 1903: The Pyongyang Mukden railway is completed
 * 1903: Gojong reads “The Division of Labor in Society”
 * 1903: Second economic boom which will last until 1910
 * 1903: The city of Seoul is expanded from 26 square
 * 1903: Park Jong-yul joins the military
 * 1903: Pohang Iron and Steel Works begins production
 * 1904: With the newly formed Right-Wing Nationalist
 * 1904: Any mines or industrial operations in Manchuria
 * 1904: Korea and Japan enter a brief conflict during the
 * 1904: Chung Do-kwan find Taekwondo as we know it today
 * 1904: The Zeng family farm is commandeered by a rich
 * 1904-05: The Korean Empire lends 325,000 soldiers to
 * 1904: First democratic elections held where 100,000
 * 1904: In order to prove the Americans wrong in a claim
 * 1904-05: Korea hosts its first World’s Fair the
 * November 10; 1904: Korea sends 100,000 soldiers to
 * 1905: Roosevelt signs the Taft-Katsura treaty saying
 * 1905: The Russians mainly as a result of help from the
 * 1905: There are now 736,000 soldiers in the Korean
 * 1905: Korea’s GDP surpasses $600-million
 * 1905: Kim Gu a 29 year old idealist who has worked for
 * 1905: Korea signs the Eusla treaty, being forced to by
 * 1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth allows Korean Independence,
 * 1905: Life expectancy rises to 38 for women and 34 for
 * 1905: Gojong orders Electric Tram systems for
 * 1905: Korea imports its first automobile from the
 * 1906: Gojong travels to Britain again to convince them
 * 1907: Korea rejects the Korean-Japanese Colonization
 * 1907: Population of Korea surpasses the population of
 * 1907: Kyungpuk University founded first University in
 * 1907: Hyundai Construction company is founded (Hyundai
 * 1907: Korea tries to get into the Hague Second Peace
 * 1907: The Japanese-Korea Treaty of 1907 is forced on
 * 1907: There are 2,000 miles of rail and 350 rail
 * 1908: In order to help their case Gojong sends 5
 * 1908: The Trans-Siberian Railway is completed this
 * 1908: Korea’s GDP surpasses $800-million
 * 1908: Korea’s literacy rate is now 65% and 58% of all
 * 1908: Daewoo Heavy Industries is founded
 * 1908: Travel speed from Seoul to Pusan is now 50mph at
 * 1908: Normal monsoon rainfall amounts finally returns
 * 1909: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 10%
 * 1909: Korean exports reach $56,000,000 with $32,000,000
 * 1909: The city of Vladivostok has 120,000 people of
 * 1909: Korea films its first film, “The Friendship”  the film is a drama
 * 1909: Korea builds its biggest battleship a 460 foot
 * 1910: Gojong refuses to abdicate the throne, and
 * 1910: Establishment of the Korean Air Force by Gojong
 * 1910: In order to help pay for the war Gojong raises
 * 1910: August 25th; Korea again rejects the
 * 1910: Korea’s population of the peninsula is 21,600,000,
 * 1910: Urbanization rate in Manchuria is 4%, China has a
 * 1910: There are now 3,500 schools in Korea
 * 1910: Yuiedo Airport in the Yuiedo area of Seoul is
 * 1910: June 14; The ambitious disciplined modest young
 * 1910: July 24; The II Corps is created at Seoul where
 * 1910: Park Jong-yul becomes the first family member to
 * 1910: Park Jong-yul becomes the first family member to
 * 1910: 54,000 tons of pig iron and 43,000 tons of steel
 * 1910-11: August 4 – February 18; The Japanese advance
 * 1910-11: There is a famous sniper Hong Beom-do who was
 * 1911-13: The Japanese use newly acquired Mustard Gas,
 * 1911: Gojong sets up a system of POW camps for captured
 * 1912: Daewoo is builds its first airplane
 * 1912: Korea acquires their first aircraft
 * 1912: Korea develops its first Howitzer
 * 1912: April 17th; Japanese Field Marshall
 * 1912: July 30; Emperor Meiji of Japan dies from severe
 * 1913: July 24th; The war ends when Japanese troops
 * 1913: A baby boom begins where over the next 18 years,
 * 1913: Gojong asks America for low interest loans, from
 * 1913: The new Military Prime Minsiter of Japan agrees
 * 1913: Park Jong-yul marries Kim So-young a 23 year old
 * 1913: The Korean Military now has 1,830,000 soldiers
 * 1913: Following the 1912 Revolution in China and the
 * 1913: Gojong orders the construction of an elevated
 * 1913: Immediately following the war and attempted
 * 1914: A giant celebration is held for the 50th
 * 1914: Korea declares war on Germany joins the Allies in
 * 1914: Gojong makes a deal with Tsar Nicholas II and French
 * 1914: 54,000 tons of steel are produced in Korea
 * 1914: 76% of the population are literate, and 73% of
 * 1914: With his reign now secure Gojong rounds up 200,000
 * 1914: March 31st; A mine accident in
 * 1914: Nationalist uprising in Harbin, the April 20th
 * 1914: Korea sends 300,000 soldiers to Russia to help
 * 1914: Korea plans the Grand Exhibition of Korea showing
 * 1914: Kim Chwa-chin is promoted to Soryeong (Major)
 * 1914: Korea’s GDP surpasses $1-billion and GDP per
 * 1914: November 7; As a result of World War I, Germany
 * 1915: Gojong commissions an airmail service from Yuiedo
 * 1915: Life expectancy rises to 43 for women and 39 for
 * 1915: Shangwon Imperial University is founded and
 * 1915: Seoul elevated railway is completed it is 10
 * 1915: Japan invades German New Guinea
 * 1915: Gojong orders construction on the legislature
 * 1915: June 2; Jung-yul and So-young have their second
 * 1916: Population of Korea surpasses Spain
 * 1916: Seoul National University is founded, after being
 * 1916: The Grand Nationalist Party is founded what would
 * 1916: The first airport is built in Shenyang making
 * 1916: Dongdaemun Stadium is built it is the first
 * 1916: The Gojong Hotel is built in Seoul it is a 15
 * 1916: Gojong decides to settle a small portion of
 * 1916: The colonial government building in Mukden is
 * 1916: November 19th; A ammunitions factory
 * 1916: Kim Chwa-chin graduates the Advanced Program at
 * 1916: Travel times from Seoul to Pusan decrease to 6
 * 1917: Gojong writes another constitution in order to
 * 1917: Population of Korea surpasses the Ottoman Empire
 * 1917: The 1917 World Korea Exhibition is held, showing
 * 1917: Position of President created, with the new
 * 1917: June 23; Tsar Nicholas II seeks asylum in Korea
 * 1917: August 10; Japan captures all of German New
 * 1917: September 20; Japan invades German Samoa and
 * 1917: Prime Minister Park Eun-sik is elected president
 * 1917: Korea has a fertility rate of 8.51 the largest in
 * 1917: Gojong on his 65th birthday hosts a
 * 1917: With the newly formed Right-wing to Far-right
 * 1917: Kim Gu is appointed Minister of Internal Affairs
 * 1918: Gojong orders the first public-bus service in
 * 1918: There is 3,500 miles of rail in Korea
 * 1918: May 30; Park Jong-yul and Kim So-young have a son
 * 1918: Korea builds a 784 foot long battleship with a
 * 1918: December 20; The first Airline Koryong Airways is
 * 1918: Korea sends 75,000 men to secure Vladivostok and
 * 1918: Gojong orders construction on an elevated railway
 * 1918: Thanks to World War I the amount of Korean
 * 1918: Following the end of World War I, Gojong lowers
 * 1918: Korea welcomes and allows refugees from the
 * 1918: A small fair is held in Shenyang showing the
 * 1919: The Korean Military now has 2,760,000 soldiers
 * 1919: January 21; Gojong the Great known for his
 * 1919: March 1; The funeral of Emperor Gojong is held a
 * 1919: Upon orders he gave in 1917, his future plans for
 * 1919: Korea joins the League of Nations
 * 1919: Kim Gu is appointed Colonial Governor of
 * 1919: 85% of the population are literate, 91% of
 * 1919: With an estimated 2,150,000 people Seoul
 * 1919: Steel production is 283,000 tons, and Pig Iron
 * 1919: Korea’s GDP Per Capita is $78 and GDP is $2.11-billion
 * 1920: The Korean Delegation in the Paris-Peace
 * 1920: The Grand Nationalist Party now holds 277 seats
 * 1920: There are now 6,000 schools in Korea a fourfold
 * 1920: First democratic elections are held where more
 * 1920: Korea’s fertility rate falls to 8.00
 * 1920: Korea’s population reaches 28,000,000 on the
 * 1920: Manchuria’s urbanization rate is 5%, China’s rate
 * 1920: There are now 30,000 students in higher education
 * 1920: Only 8% of households have access to running
 * 1920: January 1: Empress Min commissions subway
 * 1921: Kia is founded as Korea’s first automobile
 * 1921: Japanese troops withdraw from Primorski
 * 1921: Korea’s GDP surpasses $2-billion
 * 1921: Part Eun-sik meets with Sun Yat-sen and agrees to
 * 1922: Korea decides to give Primorski back to Russia
 * 1922: Park Eun-sik is re-elected president
 * 1923: Kim Gu is brought back from his Colonial
 * 1923: The KSIA (Korea Stock Industrial Average) is
 * 1923: Urban consolidation act of 1923 all city limits
 * 1923: Korean steel production surpasses 500,000 tons
 * 1923: Korea’s fertility rate is 7.95
 * 1923: After an assassination attempt on Park Eun-sik
 * 1923: May 22nd; Park Eun-sik meets with Sun
 * 1924: Election where 3 million vote
 * 1924: Korea wins their first Olympic Medal at the 1924 Paris
 * 1924: The first subway line is completed in Seoul
 * 1924: The first radio broadcast is made in Seoul on a
 * 1924: Kim Chwa-chin is promoted back to Daeryeong
 * 1925: Korea produces its first automobile only 300 are
 * 1925: January 22nd; The Warlord era in China
 * 1925: Sofitel Ambassidor Hotel is built in Seoul it is
 * 1925: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 25%
 * 1925: Iron Production is 956,000 tons, Steel Production
 * 1925: The literacy rate is about 87.6%, and 96% of
 * 1926: The first Trot genre song is recorded the first
 * 1926: April 24; Emperor Sunjong dies at age 52, a shy,
 * 1926: Korean steel production surpasses 1,000,000 tons
 * 1926: Korea’s GDP surpasses $2.5-billion
 * 1926: October 1st; Ariang film star lead
 * 1926: Education Minister Kim Gu is elected Mayor of
 * 1926: Travel time from Seoul to Pusan is now 4 hours
 * 1926: Population of Korea surpasses Brazil
 * 1927: Yi Dong-nyeong is elected President with 58.7% of
 * 1927: Gojong’s large steel mills finally come online in
 * 1927: Zeng Xiahung has a son Zeng Hongzhang unlike his
 * 1927: November 30th; The Manchu movie
 * 1928: Samsung is founded as a fish market and grocer in
 * 1928: The Grand National Party holds 309 out of 400
 * 1928: First multiple rocket launcher is developed
 * 1928: Election where 8 million vote after the suffrage
 * 1928: Byung-ho becomes the first family member to
 * 1928: When Zheng is assassinated by Korean Secret
 * 1928: October 10; Sun Yat-sen dies of Liver Cancer at
 * 1929: Failed assassination attempt on Yeong’s life by
 * 1929: Independence Activist and group leader Zhang
 * 1929: Thanks to export oriented growth Korea is the

The new legislative building completed after 14 years of construction Peninsula, and 33 million living in Manchuria, 71 million people live in    the Korean Empire, with 5,312,000 living in Seoul, 1,842,000 living in Pusan, 609,000 living in Shiangju, 1,037,000 living in Pyongyang, 361,000 living in Haebu, 659,000 living in Taegu, and 627,000 living in Incheon, and 257,000 living in Daewon, 69,130 Koreans live in America, and 268,000 in the USSR the second subway line begins Korea hardest out of the industrialized Asian nations, Korea’s GDP shrinks -6.4% deflation is -12.2% and unemployment spikes from 2.1% in 1929 to 7.6% in    1930 with rural unemployment only increasing from 0.9% in 1929 to 2.7% in     1930 and the urban unemployment rate increasing from 4.5% in 1929 to 18.0% in 1930 its 8%, Japan’s rate is 24% and in Korea its 31% founded in Seoul Manchurian to graduate top of his class at a Korean military academy, graduates in Pyongyang and is recognized for his talent Korea Military Academy in Seoul slump with the GDP shrinking only -1.6% despite unemployment increasing from 7.6% in 1930 to 11.2% in 1931 with rural unemployment increasing from 2.7% in 1930 to 3.9% in 1931 and urban unemployment increasing from 18.0% in 1930 to 26.1% in 1931, and exports shrinking 41% replacing a    $12-million trade surplus in 1930 with an $48-million trade deficit and 7.6% deflation total of 295 out of 400 Japanese Prime Minister Yunoshi agrees to give Japan Manchuria if Korea stays independent, still receives food from Manchuria and joins their axis/alliance and doesn’t get invaded and they promise to treat the Manchurians fairly, Yunoshi agrees to the terms but doesn’t know that violent militant xenophobic ultranationalist extremists will soon take over Japan as a result of the Financial Collapse of 1927 combined with the Great Depression of 1929-31 in Japan,  where the exact opposite happened in    Korea right-wing to far-right imperialist nationalists were replaced with the more left-center liberal parties as a result of the Great Depression Manchuria in order to start forming an axis with each other Military HQ, Celebrations take place in all the cities of Manchuria, which is renamed Manchuko, who welcome the Japanese, after oppressive, harsh imperial rule by the Koreans, though they would soon come to regret it when the Japanese proved to be even worse colonial overlords adding 503,000 square miles to the Japanese Empire increasing their size to 968,000 square miles unemployment increasing from a low of 2.1% in 1929 to a peak of 18.7% with the urban unemployment rate at 45% and rural unemployment at 5.8% in 1933, and their GDP declining 18%, steel production declines from 2,106,000 tons in 1929 to a low of 517,000 tons in 1932 Manchuria, further increasing oppression of the Manchus, with a five-year plan to modernize the region for Japan’s benefit, the only heavy industry in the entire region was a 200,000 ton steel mill in Anshan, the Koreans never industrialized Manchuria incase the Japanese took over, they used it    for resources and collectivized agriculture, and as a defense buffer zone Japanese use the Manchurians for free labor, comfort women, and forced conscription during war to the most deadly positions to build the projects in Manchuria to become comfort women, they reinstate the process of    cultural genocide lack of jobs, food shortages, and government corruption, violently suppressed resulting in a massacre of 5,000 deaths this is the final nail in the coffin for Yi Dong-neyong’s Presidency Korea’s greatest master orator Democratic Mayor of Seoul is elected president with 65.9% of the vote defeating the incumbent Yi who only got 33.7% of the vote an exact 25% less than the share of the vote he had in    1927; Kim Gu will become known by his fans and supporters as the Winston Churchill or Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Asia while his critics credit him with creating the Korean welfare state, voter turnout is 80.5%, being a master writer and poet, he uses his writing skills to personally send out a newspaper to as many households as possible quoting the speeches he    gives, and stating his views, and telling the people the good things that are going on in the nation, his Prime Minister is Democratic Party founder Syngman Rhee Doihara “Lawrence of Manchuria” initiates a policy of intimidating the local population and keeping them in check by creating a vast criminal enterprise where rape, sexual humiliation, child molestation, assault and murder all occur very frequently and become institutional methods for controlling the population -11.1% down from -1.6% in 1931 and unemployment jumps from 11.2% in 1931 to 19.2% In 1932, exports are only $86-million down from $306-million in    1929, Korea’s GDP plummits from $3.08-billion in 1929 to a low of     $1.81-billion in 1932 speech “People’s Nation” calling for unity, national identity, culture, harmony, progress, democracy, and to put ideological and philosophical differences aside and work for democracy and the betterment of the nation Kim Gu’s inauguration speech for 3 days until the end of the month and nationalizes them the monarch, makes any kind of electoral fraud illegal and makes voting compulsory policies for recovery off of the five-year plans similar to Stalin, he    decides to build steel plants in all major cities, and increase steel production from 0.5 million tons in 1932, to 3.0 million tons in 1937. He also establishes social security, rent control, land reforms, and unemployment insurance, and outright bans wage cuts, he also nationalizes all public services, roads, public transportation, schools, hospitals, banks, and many industries such as    electricity, steel, coal, film, radio, and many others he passes 276 new laws in just 182 days making him the most efficient leader the country had ever seen legalized, the right to strike is legalized Compensation Insurance is created Act Kim Gu’s policies of Economic planning and Keynesianism GDP growth is 2.8% that year compared to -11.2% in 1932, unemployment peaks at 19.2% with rural unemployment increasing from 5.8% in 1932 to 6.0% in 1933 and urban unemployment only increasing to 45.4% the same as the year before and deflation declines rapidly to -1.5% compared to -11.2% in 1932, and GDP per capita as a result of the rapid population growth and depression shrinks from $85 in 1929 to $46 in 1933 first subway line using unemployed people as a means to get it built as quickly as possible planning policies in history, penalizing families for having more than 6 children, families who are choosing to have more than 7 children will not be allowed to attend school this is a result of the population tripling in    40 years, and having population growth unparalleled until 1960s Sub-Saharan Afirca during the 1910s and 20s, and a result of unemployment rising not only as a result of the great depression, but as a result of    the first of the 1913-30 population boom babies starting to enter the workforce Science and Technology promotion member of the Axis with Japan and Germany saying that the Japanese lie and will try once again to assimilate them to 4,000,000 soldiers by 1938, and to build fortifications, and fortresses along the northern border to Manchuria starts greatly increasing military spending as hindsight for a threat of    Japanese invasion, orders the construction of a large naval base and port in Busan, and the expansion of the air force bases in Gonsan, and complete nearly impenetrable fences along the northern boarder and starts connecting every building in the cities to electricity, and using the Manchurian incident as a warning starts using production goals inspired by Stalin’s five year plans, and Japan in Manchuria to build military equipment in place for war works in Kaesong with the first stage being able to give the plant a    production capacity of 750,000 tons the Ministry of Finance and the Economic Planning Board and merges the two into the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Ministry of Construction and Transportation, Ministry of    Government Administration and Home Affairs including the National Police Agency, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Airport Korea off of the gold standard and pegging the nation’s currency to the US    Dollar at the rate of 1.50 Won = 1 USD power away from the Monarch leaving him as a figure head, and giving all the power to the people and the legislature creating a truly democratic nation, beginning of the Second Korean Republic, he also begins the process of ending the imperial cult around Gojong, ending the practice of    people putting pictures up of the current monarch in their homes, he also grants freedom of speech, human rights, and enfranchisement of women Gangwon, and Sui-Ho Dam in Pyongan, Andong Dam, Hamha Dam to give the country 1,125-MW of power Ulsan Dry-dock Chiang Kai-shek and completely null and voids the Treaty of Mukden of    1897, the Treaty of Balhae of 1897 national paved country road through Korea from Pyongyang to Seoul to Pusan supply China with military weapons and military modernization, and create a military alliance with them of the Franco-Russo-Koryo Alliance Kim Gu travels to Russia to meet with Stalin and warns Russia of Japan’s growing erratic, violent behavior and Kim Gu acknowledges the threat of Adolf Hitler, signing a Pact that Russia would support Korea during a war with Japan unless Germany declares war on    Russia, and Korea would support Russia in a war with Germany unless Japan declares war on Korea, they also agree that Korea will supply the Soviets with industrial equipment, multiple rocket launcher technology, and return the royal family who took asylum 16 years earlier, while the Soviets will supply Korea with weapons, explosives, ammunition, steel, and tanks believing the Chinese are too backwards, ineffective, unorganized, unindustrialized, and too busy fighting and arguing amongst each other to pose as a threat to the Japanese. While there he    learns that Stalin has always been a very deep admirer of Gojong and Kim Gu tells Stalin that he had actually met Gojong and that Gojong was a very deep admirer of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great he also agrees to    send 200,000 unemployed Korean workers over to the USSR given the labor shortage in the Soviet Union and the capital shortage in Korea in exchange that the Koreans working in the USSR send money back home to help funds in    Korea returning to Russia are put to work in the Gulags in Siberia where they’re eventually executed on November 7 KOMSCO, Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation to completely end counterfeiting income tax brackets from 5 to 10 increases the bottom tax rate from 5% to    7.5% and the top tax rate from 25% to 75% under the Universal Suffrage Act at the Imperial Korea Military Academy graduates second in his class the highest ever ranking for a Manchurian his name is Huang Oudong and is    commissioned as a Sowi (Second Lieutenant), do to his timing he is trapped in Korea and over his years with the Korean Military he will be promoted to Major by the end of the war, his wife 4 year old son 5 and 2 year old daughters settle in Korea for the next 11 years growth soars from 2.8% in 1933 to 12.0% in 1934 and deflation of -1.5% is    replaced by inflation of 3.5% and unemployment starts a rapid decline down from 19.1% in 1933 to 14.0% in 1934 with rural unemployment declining from 6% in 1933 to 4.8% in 1934 and urban unemployment declining from 45.4% in    1933 to 29.3% in 1934, over the 5 years from 1934-39 before the invasion in late fall 1939 GDP Growth in Korea will average 13.2% Ceremony on construction of a new subway line in Seoul completed in Seoul $18, Taiwan’s $45, Japan’s $65, it is the second wealthiest nation in the East almost as wealthy as Japan; however, it pales in comparison with the industrialized west; for example, the USSR’s GDP Per Capita is $225 and America’s is $575 Pyongyang devoted to human experimentation Unit 731 regulatory authority for economic Competition with Kim Kyu-sik as his Prime Minister a position he will hold for the next 12 years allowing the creation of insurance societies, and non-profit health plans skilled and strategic mastermind 45-year-old Daeryeong (Colonel) Kim Chwa-chin to Junjang (Brigadier General) with the army size increasing creating the need for more Generals making Kim Chwa-chin a General Officer where he is placed as Commander of the 2nd Artillery Brigade a    unit of 5,000 men graduate high school becomes the first Korean Olympian to win an Olympic gold medal he won it    for the marathon event in the 1936 Berlin Games, he would later carry the torch in the 1980 Seoul Olympics Sohn Kee-chung winning the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics the plane is a fighter aircraft single turbo engine that can do 357-mph and has a range of 720 miles, 950hp, about 13,000 will be produced over the next 4 years until its replacement the KT-2 of 14.1% and unemployment down to 6.5% with rural unemployment down to    2.4% and urban unemployment down to 13.7% the Democratic Party takes 363 out of 400 seats in the Assembly a gain of 51 seats meaning the party now holds about 90.7% of all seats in the legislature at age 18 works in Kaesong is complete with the second stage beginning construction to increase capacity to 1,400,000 tons 90% and increases the number of brackets from 10 to 15 Kim Gu to Korean Air Dam Construction in Korea 1936 Battle of Lugou Bridge, Japan declares war on China with the defense and military increases of Kim Gu now fully justified defense spending increases from 13% of the GDP in 1936 ($375-million) to 21.5% of the GDP in 1937 ($750-million) while also using the war to stimulate the economy sending $150-million in    military supplies to China Shanghai fearing that Korea could be invaded anytime soon this results in    Kim Gu’s popularity reaching a new high created with Japan annexing the provinces of Hopei, Shansi, Henan, and Kiangsu adding 247,000 square miles to the Japanese Empire increasing their size from 968,000 square miles to 1,215,000 square miles grows by a record 17.2% and unemployment declines to 3.2% with rural unemployment down to 1.2% and urban unemployment down to 6.9%, and the nation’s GDP surpasses its 1929 high at $3.50-billion, about 20% of the Korean economy had been taken into public ownership and Kim Gu is    re-elected with 74.1% of the vote, defeating Grand Nationalist Party candidate Ham Tae-young in a landslide he constantly encourages people to    vote in the biggest numbers possible, increasing voter turnout to 91.4% plan to increase steel production from 3.2 million tons in 1937, to 8 million tons by 1942, establish universal healthcare, nationalize all universities create a free university education system, also to build 2,000 new schools in rural areas ever radio a vacuum tube AM radio, now that 15% of Korean urban households have radios up from 1% in 1932, and people living in urban areas have access to loudspeakers all to hear the president’s speeches Seoul in the year 1937 with the war, there will be 18,000 of these produced over the next six years children attend school high taxes, and workers wage increases the gap between rich and poor has greatly been reduced Korea’s Gini Index has declined from 0.608 in 1932 to    0.453 in 1938 however thanks to heavy military build-up, and good labor relations also help 1.5% with a rural unemployment rate of 0.6% and an urban unemployment rate of 2.9% is established by the Japanese Empire annexing Shanghai, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Anhui adding 97,000 square miles to the Japanese Empire increasing their size to 1,312,000 square miles against Japan increases their defense spending even more increasing to    21.5% of the GDP ($750-million) in 1937 to 27.4% of the GDP ($1.15-billion) in 1938 and increase military supplies shipments to China from $150-million in 1937 to $250-million in 1938 the steel works with a third stage to give it a capacity of 2,000,000 tons 7.5% to 10% and the top tax rate from 90% to 95% after the Battle of Wuhan (Major General) and placed as Commander of the 1st Infantry Division a unit of 30,000 men as a result of American Media’s campaign against Japan’s war the year after they announce Chinese President Chiang Kai-Shek the same award for 1937    not surpass that until 1951 Construction of the Kaesong Steelworks the GDP ($1.15-Billion) in 1938 to 37.5% of the GDP ($1.65-Billion) in    1939 the world’s 3rd largest city behind London and New York City it    will lose 600,000 people over the next year because of bombings and evacuations that can carry up to 4,000 pounds of bombs or torpedoes with a range of    1,500 miles about 1,600 will be produced over the next 5 years its design is heavily based off of the Douglas DC-3 airliner Imperial Japanese Empire used to be China adding another 206,000 square miles to the Empire increasing the Japanese Empire to 1,518,000 square miles 18; After the bombing and occupation of Shanghai, Beijing, etc.  Japan declares war on Korea launches operation Chosun which launches a southward invasion from Manchuria, while simultaneously using a northward invasion from Kyushu, Japan bombs Seoul, Busan, Incheon, and Ulsan, beginning the Second Japanese-Korean War, the Busan Massacre using battle hardened soldiers they predict that by June all the armies will meet in Kaesong and have all of Korea except they severely underestimate the size of the Korean military ; Kim Gu meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and asks for supplies from Canada where King agrees and over the next 2 years sends $400-million in military supplies to Korea this not only helps Korea fend off the Japanese but also helps the Canadian economy and helps Canada to    mobilize, along with Argentine President Roberto Cortez and receives $150-million in war supplies, Chilean President Pedro Cerda for $50-million in supplies (Lieutenant General) where he is made Commander of the II Corps “Two Dragons” a unit of 100,000 men stalemate invading through Manchuria in the North, many Japanese get bombarded by Naval mine traps in the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, get bombarded by the traps, and mines along the bridges, but make it through, Stalin surprisingly keeps his word with Kim and sends 750,000 troops from northern China to start a border war with Japan, and another 250,000 to    Korea to force Japanese attention away from their invasion 8.6 km of new subway opened a Daewoo airplane manufacturing plant right by capable of making 5,000 planes annually has an urban rate of 37.7%, Manchuria has a rate of 12%, and China has a    rate is 11% Peninsula with 6,808,000 living in Seoul, 2,418,000 living in Busan, 1,842,000 living in P’yongyang, 1,048,000 in Taegu, and 1,068,000 living in Incheon, 142,000 live in America, and 1,103,000 in the USSR (migration    during the Great Depression) has 2,300hp a top speed of 435mph, and a range of 1,500 miles and about 2,000 pounds of bombs and loaded with 5x0.50 caliber guns; about 11,000 will be produced over the course of the next 9 years 7,400 of them from the years 1940-43 income tax rate from 95% to 97.5% and the bottom tax rate from 10% to 20% Korean troops holding the line of Japanese Advance poor background Park Chung-hee graduates from the Korean Military Academy he is commissioned as a Sowi (Second Lieutenant) is recognized as a very stern strict talented officer known for his disciplined nature he will be    placed working with Kim Chwa-chin as a lower ranking officer by the end of     the war in 1945 he will have climbed the ranks from Sowi (Second     Lieutenant) to Daeryeong (Colonel) of the 2nd Artillery Brigade in just five years residents with 1,135,000 living in Shenyang, 662,000 living in Harbin, and 544,000 living in Changchun the war perfectly planned out by then Jungjang (Lieutenant General) Kim Chwa-chin the Commander of the II Corps during the Second Battle of Salsu blowing up the dam with explosives, causing a waterfall where 100,000 Korean soldiers defeat 600,000 Japanese soldiers with the Korean’s only experiencing 19,000 deaths while the Japanese suffered 521,000 later followed by an aerial bombardment of Japanese troops attempting to invade the land beside the river, building a dam to dry up the river bed, then destroying the dam, when the Japanese crossed the river, Japanese Korea Offensive Army Commander-in-Chief Noshio Toshizo is captured when he tries to get his troops out of danger it is the battle that gets Kim Chwa-chin promoted, this is a major blow to Japanese military morale, from this point on for a Japanese soldier being sent to the Korean Peninsuala is a    death sentence, after the battle Lieutenant General Kim is immediately promoted to Daejang (Four Star General) or (General) and placed incharge of the First Korean Army (FKA) a unit of 250,000 men they say that if this battle had not happened that Korea would’ve lost the war by mid-1942 and would’ve had to been liberated by the US and USSR Minister Yonai to be replaced by Konoe, and Japanese Chief of Army Prince Kan’in to lose his position after holding it for a record 8 years and Army Minister Hata Shunroku is forced to resign and made Commander-in-Chief of    the Japanese Korea Offensive Army the following September at the Garrison HQ in Pusan ironically it was Kan’in who made Japan declare war on Korea surrendered and now under Nazi Germany Occupation the Japanese Empire claims all of Asian French Colonial outposts capturing French Indochina, and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong instantly adding 665,000 square miles to the Japanese Empire increasing their size from 1,518,000 square miles to 2,186,000 square miles Legislative election holding 283 seats meaning they now hold 70.7% of all seats in the legislature Korean Air Force fighting in the War supplies form the US through Incheon Port and Wonsan over the next 4 years Korea will receive roughly $4.5-billion in supplies from the US    (Five Star General) of the Korean Military, he will become the most decorated officer in the history of Korea placed as Supreme Commander of Southern Front, Commander of the First Korean Army with a unit of 1,000,000+ men along with other Wonsus during the war Ji Cheong-cheon (promoted to rank in 1940) Commander of the Korean Army HQ and Joint Chief of Staff, Hong Sai-ik (promoted to rank in 1942) Commander of the Northern Front, Commander of    the Third Korean Army, and Kim Suk-won (promoted to rank in 1944) Commander of the Northern Front, Commander of the Second Korean Army Manchuria line, makes a non-aggression pact with Japan as a result of the German Invasion of the USSR FDR at the Washington conference to discuss plans for the war, and also decides to send supplies through Vladivostok through Manchuria disguised as Soviet trains Pyongsong on the way and Japanese victory looking more imminent every day fortifications are set up in the city of Pyongyang are set up using the city’s 1,800,000 residents for labor to set up fortifications Bases with approximately 269 bombers dropping 3,700 bombs on Sasebo, and 321 bombers dropping 4,600 bombs on Kure this cripples Japan’s naval bases, and shipbuilding the Japanese battleship the Yamato (862 foot long    battleship displacing 72,000 long tons heaviest and most powerful armed     battleship ever constructed) the largest battleship Japan had ever produced by that time is sunk just about a month after it was commissioned other ships sunk include Nagato (708 foot long battleship), Oyodo (629    foot long light cruiser), Hyuga (729 foot long battleship), and the Soryu (746 foot long aircraft carrier capable of holding 72 aircraft which was    scheduled to depart for the Dutch East Indies) very severely damaging Japan’s naval capability Kim Chwa-chin works with head of the Air Force Lieutenant General Seo Wal-bo and orders these attacks as a method of    severely damaging the naval capabilities of Japan to give the US a bigger advantage in the war in the Pacific, destroy Japan’s industrial war manufacturing capability, naval capacity, and make it much harder to send troops through Pusan from Japan the pilots are led by the air force officers female fighter pilot Colonel Park Kyung-won and female fighter pilot Brigadier General Kwon Ki-ok and led by male fighter pilot Major General An    Chang-nam, also another 78 bombers drop 1,100 bombs on the Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu to help damage the industrial capacity of Japan in    response to this the Japanese dismantle whatever is left of the occupied Korean steel works and bring the parts to Japan they also agree to help the Americans by strategically bombing Japanese military and industrial centers, along with another 112 bombers dropping 1,400 bombs on Nagoya one of the largest aircraft manufacturing centers The battle of P’yongyang begins a 6 month battle in which 719,000 out of    1,050,000 Korean soldiers will be killed, along with 562,000 out of 645,000 Japanese soldiers will be killed, and the Koreans will begin to push the Northern front back after this battle and the battle of Midway in the Pacific this is marked as the turning point of the war for the Japanese also where the 21 year old Paik San-yup the sniper who recorded 589 kills in the battle including 517 kills in just 81 days (some from as far as a    kilometer away) before being wounded by a flash bang (he will finish the     war with 787 confirmed kills and is considered the greatest sniper of     WWII), this battle is the first blow to Prime Minister Tojo’s sky high popularity of the war Kim Gu raises the top income tax rate from 95% to 99.5% and the bottom tax rate from 20% to 35% Soldiers fighting during the Battle of Pyongyang Mitsubishi Shipyards and Kobe and Nagasaki with 203 bombers dropping 3,700 bombs on Kobe, and 189 bombers dropping 3,400 bombs on Nagasaki the ships sunk from this attack are the Aircraft carriers Hiyo (722 foot long    aircraft carrier that can hold 53 aircraft), Jun’yo (720 foot long     aircraft carrier that would hold 53 aircraft), the under construction Taiho (855 foot long aircraft carrier that would hold 65 aircraft), and the under construction Musashi (863 goot long battleship with 72,800 long    tons capable of holding 2,500 soldiers), with another 82 fighters dropping 700 bombs on Showa Steel Works Naval Bases with approximately 308 bombers dropping 4,300 bombs on    Yokosuka, and 286 bombers dropping 4,000 bombs on Yokosuka this almost cripples Japans naval abilities ironically about a month exactly after these bombings the US and UK begin the strategic bombing of Japanese cities, industrial centers, and military bases this completely destroys Japan’s naval capacity the Shinano is destroyed (872 foot long ship with a    displacement of 65,800 metric tons capable of holding 47 aircraft) Raid sending an additional 289 fighters to drop 2,000 bombs on Tokyo resulting in much more damage than just the Americans in OTL them being B-24s sent by the Americans dropping 2,000 bombs on Osaka, and 189 bombers with 75 of them being B-24s sent from the Americans dropping an additional 2,600 bombs on Yokohoma peak at 3,350,000 square miles Seoul suburbs with the battle of Suwon all 6,000,000 residents of Seoul are ordered to build fortifications and defense barriers for the city to them by the Americans to drop 1,000 bombs on Kawasaki and another 88 bombers dropping 800 bombs on Amagasaki voter turnout decreases to 87.4% as a result of the war his main goal for his third term is to liberate Korea completely, then liberate Manchuria make Manchuria its own nation, then get the Japanese out of China, then see a complete defeat of Japan ending their imperialism once and for all battle of Seoul is the largest battle in the Pacific front, with 1.7 million deaths, and where 688,523 of the 700,000 Japanese soldiers involved are killed, this and the Battle of Pyongyang are marked as the turning points of the war in the Pacific for the Korean a battle where the 21 year old Yi Ru-sol records 361 kills in just 140 days (he will finish    the way with 502 kills and is still alive today as well), another famous sniper during this battle is the 24 year old Kim Chol-man who would record 238 kills in just 83 days (finishing the war with 422 kills, and he is    also still alive today), Byung-ho also fought in this battle as well as     one of the reserve soldier Shows how intense the fighting got building by building in Battle of Seoul The Koreans send another 300 fighters/bombers with 120 of them being B-24s sent to them by the Americans to drop 3,500 bombs on the city of Tokyo the Americans send another 100 B-24s to drop an additional 1,500 on the city of Tokyo, the very next day before sunrise on the 18th and another air raid coordinated with the Americans where Korea sends 60 fighters with 10 of them being B-24s given to them by the Americans to    drop 750 bombs on the city of Kyoto and the Americans send 30 B-24s to     drop 500 bombs on the city of Tokyo to severely weaken Japanese morale and celebrate the six months of Korean air raids on the city of Japan along with the celebration of 3 months of American air raids these air raids kill 48,000 people and destroy 12% of the city leaving over 500,000 people homeless the targets were ports, business and industrial centers, along with the National Diet Building the point of these raids Kim Gu and Kim Chwa-chin felt that it was to be a massive boost to Korean morale at a    point in the war where morale was reaching a new all-time low and to prove a blow to Japanese morale right when it seemed that the Japanese were about to succeed in defeating Korea The Battle of Sunchon takes place resulting in the Japanese losing 346,229 of 350,000 soldiers in the battle and 188,000 Korean casualties out of    600,000 soldiers including civilians who took up arms The Battle of Taejong takes place resulting in 1.2-million deaths in total including the Japanese losing 448,792 of 460,000 soldiers The Battle of Kusong takes place with the Japanese now in retreat mode resulting in 382,456 Japanese deaths out of 400,000 Japanese soldiers in    one year since the beginning of the Battle of Seoul Japanese morale has been severely weakened fighters with 120 of them being B-24s to drop 6,000 bombs on Osaka, and 3,000 bombs on Nagyoa The Bombing of Osaka in the Battle of Taejon and meets nurse Kim Jung-soon and the two fall in    love joint cooperation effort, the Koreans along with the Americans start dropping bombs, on Tokyo plans for a postwar Asia including the liberation, and set up of the independent nation of Manchuria The Battle of Taegu takes place resulting in 800,000 deaths replace the Grand Nationalist Party thinking the having “Nationalist” in    the party name would ruin the image even further after WWII Churchill the Big 4 in Tehran to discuss the final strategy of Nazi Germany to discuss plans for Operation Overlord unrecoverable forcing Korea to use equipment from America Japanese back across the Yalu River into Manchuria after a severe 3 month long battle the Koreans construct a pontoon bridge across the river and march 1,000,000 soldiers into Manchuria Korean troops marching across the Yalu River four-month battle with Korea losing 237,000 out of 553,000 soldiers and Japan losing 296,492 out of 300,000 soldiers, thus completely liberating the peninsula from the invading armies but unlike 1910-13 war after liberating the peninsula Kim Gu states “We have lost too many loved ones, sacrificed too many lives, shed too much blood to just be satisfied with beating back the invaders out of our country we must defeat the invaders at their own home to proclaim the death of that menace Japanese Imperialism” the Japanese Korea Offensive Army HQ is captured by the military and Field Marshall Shunroku Hata is captured this causes Prime Minister Tojo’s popularity to plummet making him resign on May 22 where he    is replaced by Kuniaki Koiso, also American soldiers are now able to station themselves on Korea to bring more soldiers over to the Pacific, American soldiers also start landing in Korea using it as a station area to prepare for an invasion of the Four Main Islands and to group up larger amounts of    soldiers liberate it within 3 months, 71,000 Korean soldiers are killed out of 190,000 soldiers, and 124,000 of 143,000 Japanese soldiers are killed with the remaining 19,000 are taken prisoner they’re forced to swim 30 miles to    Pusan where only 8,000 of them will survive the swim if they stop to catch their breath they’re shot and if they stop to help someone tired out they’re shot as well begin with over 300,000 POWs being executed over the following year using Gojong’s execution method by rank system set up 33 years earlier for captured foreign invading armies Koreans collaborate on a major effort sending 334 B-29s take off from Osan Air Base and Gimpo and Pusan Airports to drop 1,665 tons of bombs on the city of Tokyo destroying an additional 279,000 buildings in the city leaving over 1,000,000 people homeless and killing over 100,000 civilians to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the bombings of the original firebombing of Tokyo back in the North to Central Manchuria and begin pushing into China of the 5,038,000 soldiers, 1,900,000 of them Manchurians forcefully conscripted the Japanese Military sent into Korea, 2,696,000 are killed, 529,000 were taken prisoner, 3,225,000 out of 5,038,000 soldiers 64% of the Japanese troops in Korea failed to return home about 43% of Korean households and 74% of factories were destroyed during the invasion Civilians having to make do among the ruins in 1944 from 283 seats to 237 turning a 166 seat majority into a 74 seat majority losing their supermajority this makes the post-war reforms of Kim Gu    difficult to pass and slows down the pace of reform from the near ruthless efficiency during the pre-war years of his presidency Mukden and begin pushing west into China to liberate China from the Japanese, where 188,000 soldiers are killed in battle the Japanese soldiers are picked apart from the Manchurian ones where the Manchurians are free to go, the Japanese are tortured to death in the longest way possible and Anshan from the Japanese at the cost of destruction of the Manchurian industrial center September and fight until December when they finally capture it, with 59,000 killed out of 190,000 soldiers, and 106,000 Japanese soldiers killed out of 150,000 with the remaining 44,000 taken prisoner they are taken to Korea by being forced to swim 80 miles across the Korean Strait those who refuse are beaten to the point where they’re begging for death but are only continuously nursed back to health to be nearly beaten to the brink of death again, the Japanese soldiers must keep swimming if they stop for even one second they’re shot during the swim if they tire and drown they’re left there to die, only 7,000 of the 44,000 Japanese soldiers survive the “Terror Swim” southwestern part of Manchuria with 1,550,000 soldiers and begin pushing west into China beginning the battle of Peking led by Wonsu Ji    Cheong-cheon, and Wonsu Kim Sa-ik Iwo Island at the famous Battle of Iwo Jima where the American flag is    erected with the General MacArthur on December 7th, the Koreans and the Americans together paratroop beach storm then use the ports and land invade 1,570,000 soldiers (1,030,000 Korean west shore, and 540,000 of    them are American east shore) into Kyushu the Americans invade through Kagoshima and the Koreans invade through Fukuoka they will meet at    Kumamoto and Oita the POW camps are liberated and replaced with Japanese soldiers and civilians that when Japan is innevetibly defeated that America will occupy Japan because he fears that the Korean army will be too vengeful on the Japanese population Mass Invasion of Kyushu Peking from the Japanese at the cost of 188,000 lives with the help of the Chinese army, then begins the battle of Tianjin the North China Army HQ is    raided by Korean troops where all the military officers are taken prisoner Okinawa after 3 months of intense fighting with 180,000 soldiers and 28,000 killed, out of 110,000 dead Japanese soldiers of a total of 120,000 soldier morale Prime Minister Kim Kyu-sik makes it Korean military policy to loot, pillage, the people of Kyushu as revenge for their massacres this is followed by the week long massacre of Fukuoka resulting in nearly 75% of the city being destroyed, and 200,000 deaths Massacre of Japanese Civilians Amami Island with 210,000 soldiers Amami Island with 18,000 dead out of 210,000 soldiers and invade Tenagashima Island with 300,000 soldiers and Iwo Island with 70,000 soldiers on Tenagashima Stalin, and Churchill at the Yalta conference where plans for Soviets invasion on Japan, and agree to let Manchuria when liberated be its own nation maintaining the pact made 10 years ago soldiers liberates Burma from the Japanese as the Japanese are bringing soldiers back to Japan to prepare for a full scale invasion of the Four Main Islands of Japan Tianjin and begin pushing south down Eastern China and begin grouping up on the island and use it to rush troops into Kyushu liberate the Shantung Peninsula at the cost of 153,000 lives invade Shanghai to liberate it from the Japanese in 2 months battle at the cost of 260,000 Japanese lives, 135,000 Chinese, and 46,000 Koreans capture the island of Kyushu, with 101,000 Korean casualties out of    1,030,000 soldiers and 17,000 American casualties out of 540,000 soldiers, the Japanese lose 236,000 out of 1,050,000 the Koreans take 400,000 Japanese troops prisoner where they will be publically dragged through the streets of Korean cities naked on their way to prison camps where they will be beaten to near death to be nursed back to health only to be beaten to near death again they’re only allowed to sleep for one night every seven days and are kept on the brink of starvation this treatment will end once the war ends over the next three months 240,000 of the 400,000 POWs will die Kim Chwa-chin assures Kim Gu    MacArthur create a joint invasion of Shikoku Island using the same amount of soldiers it is during these invasions that Kim and MacArthur become close friends with one another Kim Chwa-chin orders the construction of a    2 mile Pontoon boat bridge connecting the Saganoseki Peninsula to     Takashima Island then what will looks like a pontoon bridge to Sadamasaki Harbor only 500 feet long to confuse the Japanese using materials and engineering from the US and the most dangerous labor from the Japanese POWs then send 150,000 troops to invade the Island from the port town of Tosashimizu on the Southeastern shore using the city’s port after the city is invaded and the Japanese are fully concentrated on fighting there send 150,000 troops to invade through Misaki village and construct a fake port for troops to be sent through from Kyushu after those invasions send another 300,000 troops through the port city of Tokushima and have those three armies meet at the port city of Kochi an agreement with the US and Korea, to leave Manchuria as its own country after 48 years of occupation, imperial rule, and oppression by foreign powers from the Japanese in a 3 week battle at the cost of 188,000 Japanese lives, 78,000 Korean lives and 145,000 Chinese lives at Canton ultimately liberating the city after 3 weeks of fighting with Truman, Stalin, Churchill, Chiang, and Kim and agree for the Soviet Union to break their neutrality pack with Japan and invade on July 10th Kai-shek, and Churchill call for the unconditional surrender of Japan takes place with the Koreans and Chinese fighting the Japanese the Internment Camps are liberated all the British POWs are released and are repopulated with Japanese soldiers who are given the same brutality for the next month that they gave to the British Colonial army after the battle all the battle hardened Korean troops who had seen the brutality of    the Japanese to both the Chinese and Koreans are called back from China to     be placed on Shikoku and Kyushu for a prepared land invasion of Honshu Manchuria and liberates it in just 10 days and takes 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers prisoner meeting with the Koreans in Changchun sending troops over as fast as they can sending 700,000 very battle hardened troops into Manchuria, they also send another 300,000 troops to Kamchatka Peninsula and liberate it in just 6 days capture the island of Shikoku with Koreans losing 46,000 soldiers out of    800,000 and Americans losing only 9,000 out of 250,000 compared to the Japanese casualties of 185,000 out of 218,000 the Allies capture the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, with the Koreans losing 137,000 out of    1,030,000 with 396,000 wounded soldiers and the American’s losing only 26,000 soldiers out of 540,000 with 127,000 wounded, the Japanese lose 321,000 out of 1,368,000 with 723,000 wounded; 718,000 are taken POW’s by the Koreans, and 329,000 captured by the Americans and a US naval blockade is    formed along Oseto Strait, the Bungo Channel, and Kid Channel Americans and Koreans meeting each other at Shikoku multi-stage plan for the invasion of Honshu and asks MacArthur for approval beginning on the 24th construction will begin on two ½ mile pontoon bridges built across the Oseto Strait connecting Kyushu to    Honshu and from Shikoku there will be a series of decoy pontoon bridges with construction beginning on the 24th from Shikoku to Ma    Island then to Nakato Island then Oshima Island release a series of decoy information to make it look like the invasion will take place through on    August 1st 300,000 soldiers will march across the Oseto Strait into Shimonoseki and with the Japanese army distracted to the southern half of the island another 150,000 will invade through the port of    Mizushima on the same day that Kim Chwa-chin calculates that the Soviets will invade from the North through Hokkaido the American and Korean joint operation will capture the air base of Iwakuni on the 23rd and use the airbase to transport and land soldiers into occupied territory they will group up to the North of Kure on the 30th then send another 100,000 American and Korean soldiers from Shikoku to Kure Naval Base followed by a land invasion of the Naval base with the soldiers that were already there capture the city of Osaka by November 30th then the city of Yokohoma by January 1st then the city of Tokyo by March 31st where they would meet the Soviets although thanks to the atomic bomb this plan is scrapped Japanese Collective Guilt campaign displaying pictures of the torture, cruelty, and devastation of Korea and China during the war saying that they are responsible for this in a mass propaganda campaign to distribute these papers throughout Japan after hearing about similar measures being taken in Germany to make sure that Japan never attempts anything like this again Kuril Islands and liberate it in just 4 days liberate Shanghai with 46,000 Korean deaths out of 506,000 soldiers, 195,000 Chinese soldiers out of 1,800,000, and 460,000 Japanese lives out of    1,100,000 with 100,000 Japanese troops taken POWs by Korea and 700,000 taken prisoner by China the unconditional surrender of Japan on several occasions the Americans drop an atomic bomb onto Hiroshima threatening their surrender, the same day that Soviets liberate Manchuria with Truman and the top US military advisors estimating that capturing Japan will cost 500,000 US casualties, 700,000 Korean casualties, 200,000 Soviet Casualties, and 4,000,000 Japanese casualties and split the country into two as all Japanese soldiers in    Southeast Asia and China are being recalled to face an immediate threat of     invasion fearing that Japan may have the same split that Germany had island of Sakhalin and liberate it in just six days China Expeditionary Army is captured by Korean and Chinese forces where General Masakazu and Yasuji Okamura their Commander-in-Chief are captured and taken prisoner by the Chinese where he is buried alive right next to    the bodies of Chinese prisoners who Okamura himself had ordered executed in the same exact way west, Americans from the east and south, and Soviets coming in from the north they’re overwhelmed at all sides are forced to surrender on July 28th, over 6,000,000-7,000,000 Koreans are killed in the war, reducing the population from 46,362,000 in 1939 to 46,000,000 in 1940 to 43,512,000 as a low in    1943, to 44,892,000 in 1945, despite 11,000,000 births during this six year period, 3,567,000 of the 8,700,000 soldiers in the Korean Military during WWII were killed 41% of the soldiers, the Americans will occupy Japan for the next seven years the war ended up costing Japan $72-Billion with $20-Billion alone spent on the Korean Invasion, and it cost the Koreans $27-Billion one of the conditions argued for surrender of the Japanese was that if    they made an unconditional surrender only the US would occupy Japan and they would guarantee mercy among the population where with the Korean soldiers there could be no such guarantee where the US never saw the full brutality of the Japanese soldiers that the Chinese, Koreans, and British Colonists had seen, Japan is to lose the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, and Sakhalin Island to Russia, Iki Island and Tsushima Island to Korea, along with the Shandong Province, Taiwan Island and Hainan Island to China, and lose the Ryuku Islands who are to become their own nation reducing Japanese territory to just the “Four Main Islands” and they’re to be occupied by the United States until 1952 from China after being discharged when the war is over official country although it will be under US military occupation until 1948    rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, industry, stabilizing the inflation problem, and trying to get the US to stabilize the Won, along with demilitarizing the country decreasing the size of the military from 4,000,000 soldiers in 1945 to 2,000,000 by 1946 to 1,000,000 by 1947, to    500,000 by 1948 Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, lifts trade restrictions Chwa-chin to the position of Chairman of the Combined Chiefs of Staff because Kim Gu admires how he is the only General who absolutely refuses bribery, is incorruptible, and lives a very modest lifestyle; they both support Korean demilitarization, are anti-imperialist, and nationalists though this is really the only three things they have in common, Gu is pragmatic, democratic, and fair while Chwa-chin is authoritarian, strict, and aggressive, Kim Chwa-chin’s troubles with dealing with the Soviets begin strong anti-communist views pyrrhic victory, they are the most severely damaged nation outside of    Eastern Europe instill collective guilt into the Korean population for their treatment of    the Manchurians during the 1897-1932 colonization, and also as an     opportunity to free them forever from oppressive imperialists, this is a     result of seeing his own nation’s policies how negatively they affected the Manchurian population during the early-1920s when he was a Colonial Representative which helped fuel his anti-imperialist, yet Korean nationalist left-center views Kim Gu, Chiang Kai-shek, and Joseph Stalin agree to make Manchuria their own nation with the capital in Shenyang which is renamed to Mukden US, Manchuria writes a new constitution becoming a republic, makes their official language Manchu, but they will be occupied by the United States until 1948 recover population loss during World War II    married after serving in WWII for six years Byung-ho like his father will carry a powerful grudge against the Japanese throughout the rest of his life and 39% of homes are completely destroyed, Korea has lost almost all of    its industrial base, the government is bankrupt with tax returns declining from a high of $688-million in 1939 to $120-million in 1946 its lowest level since 1933 and the Won, with 15 yen = 1 USD, and 15 Won = 1 USD occupation of Manchuria cultural imports from Korea and Japan, result of harsh Korean rule 1897-32, and even harsher Japanese rule 1932-45, modernizes the Manchu alphabet and language and reinstates the official language during the Manchu/Qing dynasty as the official language China to accept the surrender of 100,000 remaining Japanese soldiers and their Manchurian subjects compulsory conscription time from 24-36 months to 21 months Army, 23 months Navy and 24 months Air Force politics judging if they should lose their historically closest and oldest European ally Russia in order to win terms with the United States to    create a new great alliance with another superpower Manchurian POWs but keeps the Japanese ones and tortures them then forces them to forced labor to rebuild damages Beginning of post-war reconstruction National University for war veterans, he tries to establish a national system for the entire nation but this is defeated by the conservatives in the legislature to 2% in 1944 to 5.7% in 1945 to 18.5% in 1946, thanks to destruction from the war Korea’s GDP declines by 44.7% during the invasion from the years 1940 to 1946 to 1,068% in 1946 thanks to the war and all the defense spending it    required controls to reduce inflation it works cause inflation is reduced to 71.4% in 1946 Rights as law but it is defeated immediately by conservatives in the legislature Gu travels to negotiate the creation and acceptance of Manchuria as a new independent nation he gives a memorizing public speech in Mukden with a    Manchu translator apologizing to Manchuria for all the atrocities and wrong doings that Korea did during the 1897-1932 era proclaiming them free to speak their own language, and practice their own culture on their own soil for the first time in almost 50 years, saying that “The era of    imperialism and domination are over”, he also claims that the irony is     that “Korea colonized Manchuria to prove to the world that it was its own nation, to remain independent and save their own identity and culture from being systematically annihilated by Japan only to get a horrible sense of superiority over another nation and to do the exact thing that Koreans feared the most from the Japanese, then to turn over the Manchurians to the Japanese, the days of Imperialism are over”, Kim Gu returns all treasures, paintings, and artifacts stolen and places a reef on the one of the few Manchu buildings remaining in the city order to receive foreign aid, food, and materials after hearing of what the Russians are doing in Eastern Europe seat and veto power the other 5 are the United States, United Kingdom, China, France, and the Soviet Union rate until 1950, Kim Gu ends the price ceilings of a bunch of smaller schools to become the first national university it    will become the nation’s most prestigious university first child a daughter Young-sook time and signs a law limiting presidents to two terms, with 50.4% of the vote, voter turnout was 93.2% defeating GNP candidate Syngman Rhee who got 48.0% of the vote his former Prime Minister but the aging stressed out tired 71 year old Kim Gu is no longer the electrifying, energetic, enthusiastic, reformer he was before the war though he still is a    charismatic speaker, who can masterfully get his point across as he is     tiring his charisma is starting to wane are mass enforced by the government, life expectancy will start to    increase from 42 in 1946 to 53 in 1950 world-record Sohn, and becomes the first Korean to win the Boston Marathon at 2:25:39, he would win the Olympic Gold Medal in the marathon in London one year later, his record would be broken in 1952 Kim Gu with an initial rate of 35 Won = 1 USD on January 1st, this helps greatly reduce inflation from 71% in 1946 to 23% in 1947 Intelligence Service from the KCIC ending the secret police thus creating the KCIA, Korean Central Intelligence Agency with the help of the United States and Korea replaced by Kim Tu-bong benefit from foreign aid and uses the money to fund reconstruction the war despite the country being completely broke this was made possible thanks to forced prison labor by Japanese POWs, they are released and returned home to Japan of the 1,200,000 Japanese POWs taken prisoner by    Korea over the course of the war only 339,000 returned to Japan alive Assembly, losing another 48 seats, giving the newly formed GNP (Grand    National Party), turning a 74 seat majority into a 22 seat minority 211 to     189, now almost all future reforms of President Kim Gu are completely halted through ever-growing corruption and polarization Europe and Asia; Korea is guaranteed $1.523-Billion from 1948 to the end of 1953 Young-soo in Pohang with Pohang Steel co.    from the United States, Kim Gu reinstates 5-year-plans this one focusing on rebuilding Korean economy and making Korea an economically powerful nation focusing on taking advantage of foreign aid and light industry, coal production, ending hyperinflation, hydro and tidal power, and rebuilding power plants GDP growth for this 5 year plan will average 5.9%, as well as building over 1,000 new modern schools, and the rural health board, mass immunization programs inflation soars from 11% in March, 1948 to 25% in July to 150% in December fixed again to 45 Won = 1 USD on January 20, 1948 resigns as Chief of Staff after numerous disagreements and arguments is    replaced by Hong Sa-ik who follows orders and isn’t as idealistic as     Chwa-chin, creates the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, a     reformist military organization, this worries Kim Gu because of his ideas of cultural suppression, views on censorship, authoritarian tendencies, his distrust of democracy, and his incredible political and strategic skills Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida begins what is the first of the “Japan-Korea Talks” a series of bilateral talks held between both nations to normalize diplomatic ties, where Kim Gu starts off by publically apologizing for the treatment of Japanese POWs saying it was the out of    control abusive military generals who were responsible he establishes a dictatorship this is the beginning of the First Manchurian Republic establishes a dictatorship arrested on charges that he was attempting to lead communist coup attempt on the Manchurian government all these claims are false and he is freed one month later when he gives the government the names of his fellow officers who are a member of the Labor Party People reconstructing houses with whatever they could find on January 1st December 30th, and 360 yen = 1 USD  to control inflation and this time they are very successful as monthly inflation declines from a high of 252% in    March, 1949 to 2.4% in December, 1949 trainer aircraft / fighter plane it has 5,500 lbs of thrust a 1,000 mile range, and a top speed of 660-mph, it can hold about 4,000 lbs of    armaments about 2,000 will be produced over the next 13 years this is the main Korean plane seen in the Sino-Manchu War with a design based off of    the F-84 business corruption, ineffective because the GNP in the Assembly restricts the investigation as much as possible currency rate is pegged 1949, as a result President Kim Gu places emergency rent controls, and price ceilings and rations because the very high inflation is making saving money, investment, and reconstruction almost impossible when combined with the political and business corruption in the country to    control inflation and this time they are very successful as monthly inflation declines from a high of 252% in March, 1949 to 2.4% in December, 1949    1,000,000 people enter Hainan after the Communist takeover of Mainland China family to Manchuria and are welcomed by Zhang Qilong as Manchu refugees and 20 minutes with a top speed of 75 mph as the 4-6-4 are replaced by    4-8-4 locomotives for passengers, and heavily used railways are beginning to get electrified while new lines are being built Ad for Korea’s First domestic radio Goldstar A-501 Japan, 47 years in Hainan, 42.5 years in Manchuria, and about 35 years in    China Kim Gu reinstates family planning policies penalizing families for having more than 4 kids in urban areas, and having more than 7 in rural areas 1950 as a result of price ceilings however GDP growth slows dramatically from 8.7% in 1949 to 5.6% in 1950 causing unintended supply shortages throughout the country has an urbanization rate of 37%, Manchuria has a rate of 17%, and China has a rate of 11% and his newly unified People’s Republic after capturing Tibet invades Manchuria with an army of 1,500,000 began advancing eastward into the newly formed nation against an Manchurian army of 1,300,000 one of them is    Zeng Hongzhang, his plan is to take all of Manchuria within a year and then turn to Taiwan using the wars to help industrialize and reunite the nation of China get into an armed conflict instead sends military equipment to China miles from the northeast Soviet border in the east growth to drop Advance to the northern Korean border, Korea sends 600,000 soldiers to    help the Manchurians as a response Kim Gu does this as he wishes to     protect Manchuria as its own nation also does this to get in better terms with the United States and to receive more aid they push the Chinese back to a stalemate at Harbin within a two weeks, this is considered the final blow with Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union in the Cold War, Korea goes from being Russia’s greatest ally in the East during the first half of the twentieth century and during World War II to America’s greatest ally in the East during World War II and the second half of the twentieth century conflict using it as opportunity to restart industrial production, creating a post-war economic boom that will last another four decades, they use their factories to supply equipment to the Manchurians advance to the outer city limits of Beijing, China increases army to    2,500,000 soldiers, Soviets supply massive amounts of equipment to the Chinese the United States supplies 400,000 soldiers and along with the UN    supplies equipment to the Manchurian army, and Japan supplies most of the armaments people living in Seoul, 2,418,000 living in Busan, 2,473,000 living in P’yongyang, 1,085,000 living in Incheon, and 1,589,000 in Taegu, with 188,000 living in America, and 1,077,000 in the USSR with 1,091,000 living in Mukden, 1,012,000 living in Harbin, 765,000 living in Changchun-Fu, and 678,000 living in Qingniwa except this time families that decide to have more than six kids will be    penalized and a program of reducing unwanted births through education, information, maternal and child health services, and the provision of    family planning supplies and services is implemented to running water, and less than 15% have access to electricity, 500,000 tons of steel are produced (the only steel works that remains operational    is the Kaesong Works and that was 70% destroyed by bombs), wartime neglect, pillaging, and scrapping during occupation, and the large steel mills being destroyed by Japanese troops with a personal savings rate of -4.6% a very low rate as a result of    hyperinflation education in Korea average Korean wage is 30 to 1, the ratio of US to Japan is 13 to 1, and US    to Britain is 2 to 1 from pre-war levels as only 12.1% of Korean households own a radio, and 0.6% own a telephone first Department store franchise 0.448 in 1950 as a result of hyperinflation, and land-reform policies to    farmers turned wartime soldiers returning home promoted to General Officer Jujang (Brigadier General) at 33 years old he    is the nation’s youngest General Chinese and Korean troops fighting in Manchuria 38.8%    Korea result of end of hyperinflation drops from $4.9-billion in 1950 to $4.4-billion in 1951 growth from factory orders increases from 5.6% in 1950 to 6.9% in 1951 despite the price ceilings severely limiting economic growth, but are very successful at keeping inflation under control, as for 1950 and 1951 inflation remains below 5% $189.5-million Billion down from $4.97 Billion in 1950, and Manchuria’s GDP is $2.6 Billion the GDP per capita of the nations are $169 for Japan and $81 for Korea down from $94 in 1950, and $46 for Manchuria, Korea receives $1.51-billion in annual aid (Constant Dollars), while in the wealthy west America’s GDP is $339.3 Billion and their GDP Per Capita is $2,208 is commissioned as a General Officer promoted to Brigadier General weather, muddy summer monsoons the Chinese advance reaches a maximum eastward push begin a retreat to 120 degrees East latitude, becomes known 120th Parallel, China still tries to push eastward for the next 2.5 years brought on by the price ceilings, the number of workers rioting increases from 3,000 in 1949 to 45,000 in 1950 to 200,000 in 1951 Anniversary of the first Korea-Japan Talks, Kim Gu arranges a meeting with both Japan and Manchuria to begin a trilateral Korea-Manchuria-Japan Talks Seoul in the year 1951 Japan back its independence reindustrialize, and benefit both light and heavy industry, and imports, GDP growth for this plan will average 9.9% children by 1962 while Korea receives about $177.4-million or $1.537-Billion (constant    dollars) in foreign aid in 1952 its GDP is only worth $4.259-Billion that year 34% of government revenues come from foreign aid average 9.9% GDP growth during the rest of the 1950s in a coal mining operation 30 miles north of Pyongyang demanding better pay, work stoppages become wide spread bringing their total up to 267 out of 400 potential seats in the legislature giving them a supermajority the vote against Democratic candidate Kim Tu-bong, Prime Minister national hero. He is elected president of    Korea, who plans a total reconstruction, modernization of the nation continues the 5 year plans, except this time they will be focused on    exports, and heavy industry, he is elected as a result of Kim Gu’s growing unpopularity and ineffectiveness, the inflation and economic malaise, with GDP only expanding 48.3% since 1946 leaving the nation’s current GDP at 80.2% of pre-war levels and the government legislature becoming so riddled with corruption and incompetence, he runs on restoring the national pride that he felt had been gradually lost since the war ended, will eventually be    called the “Charles de Gualle of Asia”, he prevents communist takeover, voter turnout was 85.0% his Prime Minister is Ji Cheong-cheon 1,068% in 1946 fleet of only 3 DC-3s, 2 DC-4s, 1 DC-6 and 1 Lockheed Constellation them in place after inflation plummeted from 109% in 1949 to 4-5% in 1950-51, inflation increases to 8% in 1952 Horrors of the Sino-Manchurian War military officer to the people of the country encouraging obedience, loyalty, familialism, the nation is a giant family, and most importantly sacrificing one’s needs for the needs of the whole aid to provide no interest loans to export businesses by settling all strikes with military intervention, all labor union leaders are arrested all labor union offices are forcefully shut down from now on it is illegal for trade unions to operate, the biggest union the General Federation of Trade Unions is dissolved along with its affiliates and replaced with the Federation of Korean Trade Unions which will be    placed under strict guidance of military authorities president much more power stifling freedom of speech and political opposition, still keeping elections but now the results can be rigged, but being 62 years old and always having disagreed with the philosophy makes it impossible to establish a dictatorship and presidents still can only serve 10 years, essentially creating an Authoritarian Democracy, thus, creating the Third Korean Republic receives $205.0-million in foreign aid that year, $1.763-billion (constant    dollars) while its GDP is worth $5.229-Billion rations, and rent controls, begins sharp cuts in government expenditures and freezes government salaries over 1953-54, privitises all industries nationalized by the government, decreases income tax on earnings from exports, tourism, and corporations by half he also lowers the income tax brackets from 15 brackets to 9 lowers the top income tax rate from 95% to    50% and lowers the bottom tax rate from 10% to 8% this causes inflation to     explode from 7.7% in March to 40.3% in June peaking at 41.2% in October before dropping to 35.1% by December loans to business and companies in order to modernize and industrialize the nation, beginning of the Chaebols restoration, he establishes a strong semi-authoritarian rule, similar to    Vladimir Putin in 2000s, and Brazil in the 1960s-80s, where Military Generals come to power through rigged elections, he also begins a strong anti-communist stance, beginning of the Third-Republic and profiteers arrested on corruption charges, all black markets to be    forcefully shut down, smuggled foreign goods are seized and burned, he     also orders the Assembly to either cooperate or be arrested on corruption charges and economy first policies after the US gunboat diplomacy of Taiwan and Hainan that year to prevent China from entering along with policies of    rapid industrialization and establishes a free trading ports and invents the concept of free economic zones to attract foreign capital and multinational corporations and sets up major ports in the two major cities industrialists and instead of arresting them has them instead pay fines and makes a cooperation with the government and corporations, providing them with special favors and small interest loans independence under nuclear threats from Eisenhower, the death of 4,700,000 Manchurians, 207,000 Chinese, 59,000 Korean soldiers and 35,000 American soldiers, although it is a cease fire the Chinese could renew the fighting at any time and still recognize Manchuria as part of China, however with a    GDP per capita of $53 during the 1942-45 war to liberate Manchuria from the Japanese 33% of households and 54% of factories were destroyed this was followed by the 1950-53 Chinese invasion which further destroyed the remaining 31% of households and 70% of factories leaving the fragile poor starving country in even worse shape than before the war the future of    Manchuria looks as bleak as possible with MacArthur claiming “This country has no future, this country will never be restored not even after 100 years” Damage of the city of Mukden after hearing the Soviets have a nuclear weapon, and the Chinese are attempting to build one his philosophy is that Korea should become the “First nuclear power in the Far East” organization and begins massive recruitment, to spy on the population and wane out any political protests or suspected leftists strike, striking is now an illegal offense and is considered sabotage to    the nation, he also has all union leaders arrested and tortured, as well as all trade unions are shut down, and trade unions are now illegal again anybody who strikes is to be beaten severely, and anybody who talks of    starting a union is to be beaten publically to be shown as an example the first time since 1949 at 255 Won = 1 USD to 10.2% completed the steel works has a capacity of 1,030,000 tons Opening of the new state of the art Pohang Steel Works to make Korea a self-sufficient state that is not consumption oriented nor over dependent on oil and shift emphasis and focus away from light industry and more towards heavy industry particularly steel, petrochemicals, steel, and shipbuilding venture between the government, Korea makes a deal with United States to    provide the money using the aid for the construction and expansion and great modernization of the outdated plants, construction of a completely new plant in Pohang, the second phase of construction begins 9.5% in 1953 and inflation increases from 8.2% in 1952 to 28.3% in 1953 also as a result international flight Seoul-Osaka 128%     children investment and an high interest rate growth promotion policies, and very rapid economic growth, inflation elevates at 16% in 1954, and would remain above 12% every year until 1960 is a result of hyperinflation Dam on the Yalu River Pony (though it was designed, and engineered by westerners), Korea produces 29,000 cars, while Japan produces 68,000, Germany produces 800,000 and America produces 9,000,000, Korea produces 2.55 million tons of steel that year The original 1956 Hyundai Pony a rate of 6.53 offer high interest rates to savers bank loans from 16% in 1954 to 26% in 1955 to encourage saving, while export loans are decreased from 8% in 1954 to 6% in 1955 to further promote export growth Ichiro Hatoyama to sign the Treaty of Basic Relations between Japan and Korea to 1, and the average American worker makes 10 times as much as the average Japanese worker developing a nuclear weapon given they use them as a defense against China and the Soviet Union begin economic cooperation, this sparks riots throughout Korea with the memory of the war still very vivid infantile stages as only 21.4% of Korean households have a radio, 1.3% own a telephone, 0.9% have a television, and 0.1% own a refrigerator this year for Japan to supply the machinery, and capital for the building of another extremely modern steel works to replace the one in Hamhung The utter poverty and underdevelopment of Manchuria, 1956 increasing massively from $32.8-million in 1955 to $74.8-million in 1956 a    128% increase Company executive Kim Dae-jung is elected to the National Assembly aspiring to become a national leader for liberalism and human rights like his childhood hero and role model Kim Gu, saying that the current administration has absolute disregard for human rights, and democracy a    move that almost lands him in prison the GNP loses 9 seats in the 1956 elections Pohang Steel works is completed with two steel converters, the plant has a    production capacity of 2,300,000 tons, the third construction phase begins in 1955, GDP-growth during the late-1950s, 1956-59 will average 12.4% with exports increasing at an average rate of 59% care of the family farm his younger brother Byung-ho and his family move from the family farm to Seoul spending life savings on bus fair and train ride to city move in from 200 sqft thatched roof house into an aluminum roof 325 sqft house with a public bathroom Byung-ho gets a job on July 6th just 3 days after leaving in a Lucky Goldstar factory making $.08/hour he    got the job through a military friend that he wrote letters to and Jung-soon gets a job at a textile making $.06/hour in 1957 the GDP finally surpassing it’s 1939 high when adjusted for inflation, the ratio of government revenue coming from foreign aid declining from 34% in 1952 to 17% in 1957 and GDP per capita up from $77 in 1952 to $155 in    1957 and the percentage of population living under absolute poverty drops from 46% in 1952 to 34% in 1957 President Kim Chwa-chin is re-elected with 62% of the vote, voter turnout is 94.4% with the economic miracle underway, defeating Democratic Party candidate Yun Bo-seon highway that goes from Seoul to Incheon first Korean global snack company all-time high of 4.2-million tons set back in 1939 with a total production of 4.4-million tons in 1957 19.4%    aid that vast majority of it from the United States foreign aid makes up 91% of Manchuria’s government budget experts believe that Manchuria will never dig itself out of poor nation status and never industrialize much beyond textiles, furniture, and raw minerals export on its own they lack Korea and Japan’s trained and educated workforce, stern work oriented culture, industrial backbone, and industrial tradition and corruption of the Manchurian dictator dock in Ulsan very first time nonstop routes to Tokyo, Taipei, Osaka, and Hong Kong on DC-6s and DC-7s plan to promote import substitution industries, such as steel, shipbuilding, automobiles, machinery, and chemicals is meant to continue heavy industry benefit, and export growth, GDP growth for this plan will average 10.7% Clearing of Shantytowns in Korea, 1957 highway a 430 mile highway urban unemployment rate in the nation is at 30% while the nation is    suffering hyperinflation of up to 600%, about 56% of the country lives in     absolute poverty and over 80% of urban residents live in absolute poverty and Iron works is completed with a capacity of 1,000,000 tons, construction on stage two begins exams government is now emphasizing nationalism and anti-communism in schools recruit up to 150% of their quota forcing students to compete against each other to graduate to reduce and ultimately eliminate political student activism Gyongjubong Expressway that goes from Seoul to downtown Incheon hours at a top speed of 87-mph as steam locomotives start being replaced by diesel and electric trains begin manufacturing black and white televisions for the first time increasing to 6.8-million tons in 1958 from 4.4-million tons in 1957, a 55% increase Works is completed capacity increases to 5,500,000 tons, the second largest steel works in the world only to Magnitogorsk Steel Works in the USSR, construction begins on the fourth phase Oudong who was placed in charge of the city of Mukden military a year earlier by Zhang Qilong posts his 45 thesis statement on the walls of the Capital Building in Mukden, beginning of the Second Manchurian Republic by a military coup led by 53 year old Lieutenant General Huang Oudong where Zhang Qilong is forced into house arrest and is not allowed to leave, he uses intimidation and arrests anybody who refuses to cooperate with him in the Legislative Council he will rapidly modernize Manchuria The coup led by General Huang Oudong 309 foot tall 23 story Yeon Gak Iron Works is completed the capacity is now increased to 2,250,000 tons, construction begins on stage three with 10.02-million tons produced in 1959 an 47% increase from 1958’s 6.8-million tons than a week after his 71st birthday and is replaced by the head of the Economic Planning Board the 41 year old Jungjang (Lieutenant    General) Park Chung-hee who immediately after is promoted to Daejang (General) as his hand-picked successor Ji’s death leads President Kim to    decline seeking a third term reminding him of his own mortality as Ji was only 1-1/2 years older than his best friend President Kim $250 million in just four years exports have increased from $32.8-million in 1955 to $259.1-million in 1959 into the country seized and burned he orders all profiteers and corrupt businessmen arrested, and even goes as far as to having 4,000 young men arrested and having their hair cut to fit the new mood, he spends his immediate energy on ending hyperinflation then rebuilding and repairing the damages of the war increase from 13.2% from in 1958 real wages rise 13% in 1959 while the unemployment rate declines from 6% in 1958 to 4.7% in 1959 currency in Manchuria inflation drops from 600% in 1958 to 218% in 1959 and GDP growth increases from 2.3% in 1958 to 9.7% in 1959 as a result though this is only brief today Agency as an intelligence gathering agency and a secret police force to    carry out his agenda of high speed economic growth and modernization to     industrialize the nation as quickly as possible he also freezes government salaries, and drastically reduces government spending completed an observatory will be added in six years to adults because a literate workforce is necessary for economic advancement with Manchuria’s literacy rate now at 40% he plans to have it    increase to 50% by 1964 then to 75% by 1970 achieve full universal literacy by the end of the century very-large crude carriers, each 260,000 DWT 1959 at $273.4-million about $2.16-Billion (constant dollars) winds killing 800 people leaving 200,000 homeless it is the strongest typhoon to hit Korea until Maemi in 2003 Manchuria begins operations creates an income tax bracket system where the bottom tax rate is 8% and the top tax rate is 50% form 9.2% in 1955 to 4.7% in 1959 Hyundai shipbuilding in the year 1959 with 50.1% of the vote, begins economic development based off of his lifelong childhood hero and role model Gojong the Great, and the development of Korea during his years as a young low-rank military officer in the pre-war Korean military, beginning of the Third Manchurian Republic massively over the next five years by exporting natural resources to    Germany, UK, and US in exchange for foreign aid and industrial equipment living in Haikou and 223,000 living in Sanya and 147,000 living in Danzhou in 1959, to 9.4% in 1960 living in Seoul, 3,421,000 living in Busan, 3,197,000 living in Pyongyang, and 2,215,000 living in Taegu, 1,785,000 living in Incheon, with 354,000 living in America, and 1,424,000 in the USSR living in Mukden, 1,610,000 living in Harbin, 1,111,000 living in    Changchun-Fu, and 1,064,000 living in Qinginwa a rate of 62%, Hainan has a rate of 31% Manchuria has a rate of 25%, and China has a rate of 19% that of the average Korean worker, and 6.4 times that of the average Japanese worker $44.2 Billion, while Korea’s GDP is $18.9 billion, and Manchuria’s GDP is    $7.5 Billion, Hainan’s is $680-million; Japan will average a 10.6% GDP growth rate over the 1960s, while Korea will average an 10.3%, Hainan will average 9.0%; and Manchuria will average an 9.1% GDP-growth rate, and China will average 2.4% their GDP per capita are $479 for Japan, $296 for Korea, and $117 for Manchuria, and $92 for China, Korea receives about $1.7-Billion in foreign aid, and Manchuria receives $3-Billion in foreign aid 113,000 cars, Korea also manufactures 12.4 million tons of steel that year sewing machine, 6.4% of have a television, 4.8% have a telephone, 2.2% have a refrigerator, and only 0.1% have a washing machine completed in Seoul it will be the tallest building in Asia for the next year years in Hainan, 61.2 years in Korea, 53 years in Manchuria, and 43.5 years in China in urban areas, 23% in rural areas), and 40% have running water (59% in    urban areas, 20% in rural areas)     has a fertility rate of 6.42     4.4% in 1960, real wages increasing by over 40% since then, and GDP growth     averaging 10.2% from 1956 to 1960 and foreign aid going from 17% of     government revenues in 1956 to 9% in 1960 the Grand National Party gains 42     seats bringing their total to 300 out of 400 giving them a legitimate     supermajority now the President’s reforms can be pushed through with     ruthless efficiency with no opposition     small detached houses      income tax brackets are reformed in Korea from 9 brackets to 16 and the     top income tax rate is increased from 50% to 70% Seoul in the year 1960     becoming the fifth nuclear state it is a 15-kiloton device and the first     nuclear state in The East the President Kim Chwa-chin threatens that if     China renews its fighting with Manchuria that Beijing will be wiped off the map decrease Manchuria’s birthrate to 4 children by 1973 to 18% in 1961 building is built Asia’s tallest building for the next seven years a total GDP of $5.7-Billion, it is one of the poorest nations on earth, second poorest in all of East-Asia only to China construction is completed capacity increases to 8,500,000 tons making it    the largest steel works in the world for the next two years, until it is     surpassed again by Magnitogorsk in Russia, it is the most modern steel works in the world Highway 1 opening up in 1961 renewed guaranteed secure source of foreign aid from the US and West Germany (West Germany in exchange for nurses) Huang Oudong as unemployment in the country is still high at 10% thanks to a heavy rural to urban migration from war damage creates a five year plan for repairing the electricity problems caused by the Manchurian War, trying to become independent from foreign aid, developing self-reliance, expansion on hydro, coal, and thermal power, mining, raw minerals for export, and focus on    light industry, textiles, fertilizers, coal mining, iron ore mining, and the initiation of Manchuria Electric Company GDP growth for this plan will average 8.0% connecting Haikou to Sanya Chung-Hee is elected, although some suggest that this is through intimidation tactics and was a handpicked successor, he is elected with 60.2% of the vote and voter turnout is 97.0%, defeating Democratic candidate Kim Il-sung fourth post-war five year plan, pushes for much more aggressive heavy industry promotion, a nationwide highway and rail system, Park Chung-hee’s heavy chemicals industry (HCI) promotion, greatly increase capital in    steel, establish household electronics, and shipbuilding industries, GDP growth for this plan will average 9.8% with a flush toilet for the first time as Byung-ho is now making $.17/hour and his wife is now making $.10/hour at textile mills 10 largest producers of steal, automobiles, and manufactured goods, and increase exports greatly to $5-billion using influence from his predecessor, and corporatist practices, he also demands growth of    industries that can compete internationally and have incomes at least double by the end of his presidency in 1972 while promoting thrift, hard work, sacrifice, and frugality clothing and textiles his KyukoJang residence, a state funeral is held by this point, his popularity has rebuilt itself into making him a national hero, he lead Korea through three of its four greatest crisis of the twentieth century he got the nation out of the Great Depression, he successfully kept the nation calm and independent during the Japanese invasion, he successfully made Korea America’s biggest ally in the East a title which lasts to this day, successfully made Manchuria its own nation, devoted his life to    fighting for his country against imperialism from home and abroad, corruption despite post-war hyperinflation, losing control of the legislature, and post-war economic problems he is almost universally considered the best president Korea ever had to the US to Los Angeles Airport (LAX) via Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s below $250-million for the first time from $265.9-million in 1961 to    $248.3-million in 1962 and in constant dollars drops from $2.042-billion in 1961 to $1.863-billion in 1962, dropping below $2-billion for the last time second jet fighter/trainer it has 17,700lbs of thrust a top speed of 1,100mph or Mach 1.5, and a range of 1,150 miles and can hold up to 8,250 lbs of    armaments it will be the dominant Korean fighter jet for the next 35 years this aircraft will make itself known during the Vietnam War as the arms race with China is getting to the point where Chinese aircraft in the past 5 years have been surpassing the KAI T-10 in flight capabilities with the Chengdu J-6 in 1958 Steel and Iron works now has an increased capacity of 4,550,000 tons, construction begins on stage four rate Kim Chwa-chin started out with over the course of his presidency in    the past 10 years Korea’s GDP rate has increased from $4.2-billion in 1952 to $23-billion in 1962 meaning GDP per capita has increased literally five-fold from $77 in 1952 to $339 in 1962 and exports have increased from $51.2-million in 1952 to $1.12-billion in 1962 and the percentage of    foreign aid making up government revenues has decreased from 34% in 1952 to 7.6% in 1962, and the percentage of population living in absolute poverty has decreased from 46% in 1952 to 19% in 1962 Hyundai Oceania a 140,000-DWT coal and ore carrier
 * 1930: Korea’s population is 38 million living on the
 * 1930: The Seoul Metro is founded, and construction on
 * 1930: Life expectancy rises to an average of 50 in
 * 1930: There are 100,000 students in higher education
 * 1930: The Great Depression strikes Korea hitting it
 * 1930: The urbanization rate in China is 8%, in Manchuria
 * 1930: Korea’s first department store Shinsegae is
 * 1930: Huang Oudong a 24/25 year old the first
 * 1931: Huang Oudong enters at the Prestigious Imperial
 * 1931: June 7 – October 20; Japan invades Manchuria
 * 1931: Korea starts to slowly climb out of the economic
 * 1932: The Democratic Party gains 152 seats up to a
 * 1932: February 18; President Yi Dong-neyong meets with
 * 1932: January 10; Korea and Japan agree to co-rule
 * 1932: February 7; Japan captures the Korean Colonial
 * 1932: The great depression takes its toll on Korea with
 * 1932: Japan begins a Stalinist style development of
 * 1932: The Japanese force part of the female population
 * 1932: Riots across the country break out over wage cuts,
 * 1932: Kim Gu, left-center, nationalist, democratic socialist,
 * 1932: Manchuko under Colonial General Governor Kenji
 * 1932: Worst economic year in Korean history GDP shrinks
 * 1933: February 25; Kim Gu gives his first inauguration
 * 1933: February 25; Kim Gu closes down all major banks
 * 1933: February 28; Kim Gu ends election rigging under
 * 1933: February 25 – August 25; Kim Gu initiates
 * 1933: March 1; Trade unions and labor unions are
 * 1933: March 2nd: Industrial Accident
 * 1933: March 3rd: National Welfare Pension
 * 1933: Korea’s economy begins recovery as a result of
 * 1933: March 1; Kim Gu orders construction on Seoul’s
 * 1933: March 2; Kim Gu initiates the first family
 * 1933: March 3; Kim Gu creates the Korean Institute for
 * 1933: March 4; Kim Gu creates a policy of cultural
 * 1933: March 6; Kim Gu declares Korea is no longer a
 * 1933: March 7; Kim Gu, orders a military draft, to up
 * 1933: March 11; After Japan captures Manchuria, Korea
 * 1933: March 20; Kim Gu starts using Keynesian economics
 * 1933: March 25; Construction begins on a massive steel
 * 1933: April 4; Kim Gu reforms the Ministries, creates
 * 1933: April 10; Construction begins on Gimpo National
 * 1933: April 17; Kim Gu passes currency reform getting
 * 1933: April 20; Kim Gu reforms the constitution taking
 * 1933: May 2; Construction begins on Hwacheon Dam in
 * 1933: May 11; Construction begins on modernizing the
 * 1933: May 16; Kim Gu travels to China to meet with
 * 1933: May 25; Construction begins on Route 1 the first
 * 1933: June 7; Kim Gu meets with Lin Sen and agrees to
 * 1933: June 12 – June 25; On the 31st anniversary
 * 1933: August 1; The Russian Royal family after
 * 1934: February 1; Kim Gu authorizes the creation of
 * 1934: February 10; Kim Gu increases the number of
 * 1934: February 25; Women are given the right to vote
 * 1934: A very ambitious 28 year old Manchurian student
 * 1934: Korea’s economic recovery is in full swing as GDP
 * 1935: Korea’s first airport Gimpo National Airport is
 * 1935: Korea’s GDP Per Capita is $56, compared to China’s
 * 1935: Construction begins on Sunan Naitonal Airport in
 * 1935: Japan constructs a medical facility near Harbin,
 * 1935: Kim Gu authorizes the Fair Trade Comission (KFTC)
 * 1935: Population of Korea surpasses France
 * 1935: Due to disagreements Kim Gu replaces Syngman Rhee
 * 1935: President Kim passes the Medical Insurance Act,
 * 1935: Kim Gu nominates the ambitious, incredibly
 * 1935: Byung-ho becomes the first family member to
 * 1936: Sohn Kee-chung then world-record marathon runner
 * 1936: The KAI KT-1 is built by Korean Air Industries,
 * 1936: With Korea’s confidence restored, and GDP Growth
 * 1936: Park Byung-ho joins 3 year military conscription
 * 1936: Construction on the first stage of the steel
 * 1936: Kim Gu raises the top income tax rate from 75% to
 * 1936: National Welfare Pension program is created by
 * 1936: Zeng Hunglo dies at the age of 66
 * 1936: Korean National Airlines is founded the forerunner
 * 1937: July 7; With the Japanese invading China and the
 * 1937: November 17; The Japanese capture the city of
 * 1937: December 14; Colonial Government of China is
 * 1937: The year of Kim Gu’s re-election Korea’s GDP
 * 1937: Kim Gu comes up with a second pre-war five-year
 * 1937: The GoldStar corporation builds Korea’s first
 * 1938: Korea comes out with the Hyundai K1-44 tank to help
 * 1938: The literacy rate in Korea is 93%, and 99% of
 * 1938: Thanks to policies of trade union legalization,
 * 1938: Unemployment rate drops below its 1929 lows at
 * 1938: March 28; Colonial Government of Reformed China
 * 1938: Korea joins the allies with the war effort
 * 1938: Construction is complete on the second stage of
 * 1938: Kim Gu again increases the bottom tax rate from
 * 1938: October 27; The Japanese capture Wuhan province
 * 1938: November 2; Kim Chwa-chin is promoted to Sojang
 * 1938: Kim Gu is named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
 * 1938: Korea’s urbanization rate reaches high of 38.2% will
 * 1939: Korea’s defense spending increases from 27.4% of
 * 1939: With an estimated 7,400,000 people Seoul is now
 * 1939: Daewoo comes up with the T-5 Heavy Bomber a plane
 * 1939: September 1; Miangjang is formed a part of the
 * 1939:  September
 * 1939: September 25th-October 2nd;
 * 1939: October 17; Kim Chwa-chin is promoted to Jungjang
 * 1939: Japan advances nearly pushing them into a
 * 1939: Park Byung-ho is serving in WWII now
 * 1939: Population of Korea surpasses Italy
 * 1940: The second subway line is completed in Seoul with
 * 1940: Kaesong Steel Works stage three is complete with
 * 1940: Korea has an urbanization rate of 35.6%, Japan
 * 1940: Korea’s population reaches 47 million on the
 * 1940: The KAI T-2 fighter plane / bomber is released it
 * 1940: In order to pay for the war Kim Gu raises the top
 * 1940: June 10; A young ambitious 23 year old from a
 * 1940: Manchuko Japanese puppet state has 44 million
 * 1940: The Koreans win their first victorious battle of
 * 1940: The humiliation of Salsu causes Japanese Prime
 * 1940: September 22nd; With France
 * 1940: The Democratic party loses 80 seats in the
 * 1941: March 11; Korea starts receiving military
 * 1941: Kim Chwa-chin is promoted to Wonsu (Marshal) or
 * 1941: The USSR retreats troops from the Northern
 * 1941: December, 21; Kim Gu meets with Churchill, and
 * 1942: January 15 – February 2; With the Battle of
 * 1942: January, 17; Koreans attack the Kure and Sasebo Naval
 * 1942: February 2nd – August 10th;
 * 1942: In order to help pay for the extremely high cost
 * 1942: February 18; Koreans attack the Kawasaki and
 * 1942: March 18; Koreans attack the Yokosuka and Maizuru
 * 1942: April 18; Korea joins America in the Doolittle
 * 1942: May 18; The Koreans send 144 bombers with 50 of
 * 1942: June 6; The Imperial Japanese Empire reaches its
 * 1942: June 5 – July 10; With the Japanese approaching
 * 1942: June 18; The Koreans send another 50 B-24s given
 * 1942: Kim Gu is re-elected with 59.2% of the vote,
 * 1942: July 14th – December 2nd; The
 * 1942: July 17-18; On the night of the 17th
 * 1942: August 29th – November 30th;
 * 1942: December 1st – August 20th;
 * 1942: December 7th – July 10th;
 * 1943: February 2nd; The Koreans launch 400
 * 1943: March 22nd; Park Byung-ho gets injured
 * 1943: The Korean-American alliance is formed, and in a
 * 1943: Kim Gu sets up the Cairo conference to discuss
 * 1943: August 29th – January 7th;
 * 1943: Syngman Rhee finds the Grand National Party to
 * 1943: Kim Gu meets with Roosevelt, Stalin, and
 * 1943: All the steel mills, are destroyed and
 * 1943: December 20th; The Koreans push the
 * 1944: May 11; Koreans liberate Busan, after a
 * 1944: May 15; The Koreans invade Tsuhima Island, and
 * 1944: June 28; The Massacre of captured Japanese troops
 * 1944: July 17-18th; The Americans and
 * 1944: July 31st; Koreans push the Japanese
 * 1944: During the failed Japanese Invasion of Korea, out
 * 1944: Inflation increases from 59.5% in 1943 to 108.2%
 * 1944: The Democratic Party loses 46 seats declining
 * 1944: August 22nd; The Koreans liberate
 * 1944: September 19th; The Koreans liberate Jinzhou
 * 1944: September 21; The Koreans invade Iki Island in
 * 1944: November 2nd; The Koreans liberate the
 * 1944: December 17th; The Americans liberate
 * 1944: December 20;  Kim Chwa-chin creates an joint effort
 * 1944: Kim Gu meets with President Roosevelt and agrees
 * 1944: December 22nd; The Koreans liberate
 * 1944: December 22nd: The Americans liberate
 * 1944: December 29, in order to boost and maintain
 * 1945: January 1st; The Americans invade
 * 1945: January 15th; The Americans liberate
 * 1945: February 4-11; Kim Gu meets again with Roosevelt,
 * 1945: February 7; The British Empire using Indian
 * 1945: February 18th; The Koreans liberate
 * 1945: February 19th: The Americans liberate Tanegashima
 * 1945: March 19th; The Koreans and Chinese
 * 1945: April 22nd; The Koreans and Chinese
 * 1945: April 26th: The Koreans and Americans
 * 1945: April 30th: Kim Chwa-chin and
 * 1945: After the Russians liberate Manchuria, they reach
 * 1945: May 10; The Koreans and Chinese liberate Wuhan
 * 1945: May 30 – June 21; The Koreans and Chinese battle
 * 1945: June 17 – July 2; The Potsdam Conference is held
 * 1945: July 2-July 19; Kim Gu, Truman, Stalin, Chiang
 * 1945: July 1 – July 19; Second Battle of Hong Kong
 * 1945: Inflation reaches a peak of 112.6% in 1945
 * 1945: July 10th; The Soviet Union invades Northern
 * 1945: July 14th; The Koreans and Americans
 * 1945: July 15th; Kim Chwa-chin constructs a
 * 1945: July 15th; Kim Gu launches the
 * 1945: July 16th; The Soviets invade the
 * 1945: July 17th; The Koreans and Chinese
 * 1945: July 20th; After the Americans demand
 * 1945: July 21st; The Soviets invade the
 * 1945: July 24th; the Garrison HQ of the
 * 1945: The Japanese with the Koreans coming in from the
 * 1945: July 28th; Byung-ho returns to Korea
 * 1945: August 15th; Hainan is made its own
 * 1945: Kim Gu spends the next two to three years
 * 1945: Kim Gu authorizes the Ministry of Commerce, and
 * 1945: Kim Gu appoints General of the Army, Kim
 * 1945: The allies win the war although for Korea it is a
 * 1945: Kim Gu uses the Invasion as an opportunity to
 * 1945: After making a deal with the Soviets and Chinese,
 * 1945: November 2; with help from the Koreans, and the
 * 1945: President Kim eases the population controls to
 * 1945: December 2; Park Byung-ho and Kim Jung-soon get
 * 1945: About 83% of Korean factories, 71% of power plants,
 * 1945: Hyperinflation grips Japan and Korea with the Yen
 * 1945: Life expectancy is 42 years in Korea
 * 1945: The United States begins a three year military
 * 1945: Immediately after liberation Manchuria bans
 * 1945: President Truman sends 50,000 soldiers to Southern
 * 1945: The literacy rate in Manchuria is 17%
 * 1945: Following the end of World War II, Kim Gu reduces
 * 1945: President Kim Gu becomes conflicted with Cold War
 * 1945: December 2nd; Korean military releases
 * 1946: Shaingju Imperial University is renamed to Mukden
 * 1946: Kim Gu establishes a national health insurance
 * 1946: Korea’s unemployment rate soars from 0.3% in 1942
 * 1946: Korea’s Debt to GDP ratio soars from 22% in 1936
 * 1946: Kim Gu enacts some price ceilings and rent
 * 1946: Kim Gu attempts to pass a bill proclaiming Human
 * 1946: February 20th – March 2nd; Kim
 * 1946: Kim Gu chooses siding with the United States in
 * 1946: Korea is one of the 6 nations in the UN with a permanent
 * 1947: Inflation decreases to 23.4% in 1947 its lowest
 * 1946: Changchun National University is founded as the merger
 * 1947: January 30; Byung-ho and Jung-soon have their
 * 1947: Kim Gu is re-elected, but this will be his last
 * 1947: Disinfection techniques are learned from the US
 * 1947: Suh Yon-Bok breaks his coach’s previous
 * 1947: LG Group electronics corporation is founded
 * 1947: The Won is pegged to a specific rate by President
 * 1947: Kim Gu authorizes the creation of the National
 * 1947: The constitution for Manchuria is fully drafted
 * 1947: Kim Kyu-sik resigns as Prime Minister and is
 * 1947: Kim Gu scores a deal with the United States to
 * 1948: Korea has repaired most of the damages caused by
 * 1948: The Democratic Party loses majority in the
 * 1948: The United States congress approves of aid to
 * 1948; February 18: second child is born a boy named
 * 1948: Kim Gu orders the first modern steel works built
 * 1948: After finally receiving the much asked for aid
 * 1948: Lotte conglomerate is founded in Seoul
 * 1948: Hyperinflation begins again in Korea as monthly
 * 1948: Inflation increases and the value of the won is
 * 1948: U.S ends Military Occupation of Manchuria
 * 1948: General of the Army and War-Hero Kim Chwa-chin
 * 1948: October 7th; President Kim Gu meets with
 * 1948: Zhang Qilong is elected President of Manchuria,
 * 1948: US occupation of Hainan ends and Li Zongren
 * 1948: November 11; Lieutenant Colonel Huang Oudong is
 * 1949: The Won’s value increases again to 60 Won = 1 USD
 * 1949: The values are fixed with 125 won = 1 USD on
 * 1949: The KAI T-10 is introduced Korea’s first jet
 * 1949: Kim Gu orders an investigation into political and
 * 1949: Foreign aid to Korea peaks at $352-million
 * 1949: Korea joins the Bretton Woods system, it’s
 * 1949: March 25; Inflation rises again to 109.5% in
 * 1949: Roughly 2,000,000 people enter Manchuria and
 * 1949: Puyi of the former Qing Dynasty escapes with his
 * 1949: Travel times from Seoul to Pusan is now 4 hours
 * 1950: Life expectancy is 53 years in Korea, and 59.5 in
 * 1950: There are 126,000 registered cars in Korea
 * 1950: Korea has a fertility rate of 6.16, as a result
 * 1950: Inflation plummets from 109.5% in 1949 to 4.2% in
 * 1950: Korea has an urbanization rate of 36.4%, Japan
 * 1950: July 2nd; War begins in Manchuria, Mao
 * 1950: July 10th; Soviet Union refusing to
 * 1950: August 11th, reach maximum advance 10
 * 1950: May 22; Third child daughter Hyun-sook
 * 1950: Aid to Korea gets cut to $272.8-million causing
 * 1950:  August 13th,
 * 1950: Japan takes advantage of the Sino-Manchurian
 * 1950: November 2nd, US, Manchuria, Korea
 * 1950: Korea’s population reaches 53 million with 5,312,000
 * 1950: Population of Manchuria reaches 57 million people
 * 1950: Kim Gu reinstates his family planning policies
 * 1950: Just under 17% of households in Korea have access
 * 1950: Korea is one of the poorest nations on earth,
 * 1950: There are now 250,000 students in higher
 * 1950: The ratio of the average American wage to the
 * 1950: There is no signs of improvement in the economy
 * 1950: Shingsege Department Co & Ltd. Is founded the
 * 1950: Korea’s Gini Index declines from 0.533 in 1945 to
 * 1950: December 1st; Park Chung-hee is
 * 1951: Korea surpasses it’s all time high urban rate at
 * 1951: KBS starts the first ever television broadcast in
 * 1951: Despite growing 6.9% in 1951 Korea’s GDP as a
 * 1951: The Sino-Manchurian War benefits Korea as GDP
 * 1951: Foreign Aid to Korea drops further to
 * 1951: Japans GDP is $14.2 Billion, Korea’s GDP is $4.4
 * 1951: July 6th; Huang Oudong the 46-year old
 * 1951: March 2nd; as a result of cold
 * 1951: Riots break out over shortages of necessities
 * 1951: October 7th; On the 3rd
 * 1952:  US returns
 * 1952: Kim Gu second post-war five year plan is meant to
 * 1952: The first steel mill is built after the war
 * 1952: President Kim, sets a target fertility rate of 3
 * 1952: Foreign Aid makes up a good chunk of Korea’s GDP,
 * 1952: Economic miracle starts in Korea, Korea will
 * 1952: Fourth child son Sang-chul
 * 1952: July 30th; A 30,000 man strike begins
 * 1952: Grand National Party wins an additional 56 seats
 * 1952: Kim Chwa-chin is elected president with 59.7% of
 * 1952: Unemployment reaches high of 11.2%
 * 1952: Korea’s debt-to-GDP ratio is 559% down from
 * 1952: Korean Airlines commences operations, with a
 * 1952: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 40%
 * 1952: Korean exports surpass $25 million
 * 1952: Kim Gu relaxes price ceilings but still keeps
 * 1953: Korea’s GDP surpasses $5 Billion
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin applies the principles he used as a
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin has the government use the foreign
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin curbs labor and trade union power
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin reforms the constitution giving the
 * 1953: The ratio of foreign aid to GDP declines as Korea
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin removes all price ceilings,
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin gives low interest government bank
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin places top priorities on economic
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin orders a number of industrialists
 * 1953: Li Zongren begins a policy of export promotion
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin reaches a compromise with
 * 1953: The Manchurian War ends, with Manchuria maintaining
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin attempts a nuclear weapons program,
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin uses the KCIA as a secret police
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin has workers arrested who are on
 * 1953: The Korean Won is set at another fixed value for
 * 1953: Unemployment rate starts it’s plummet goes down
 * 1953: The first phase of the Pohang Steel Works is
 * 1953: Kim Chwa-chin reforms the 1952-57 Five Year Plan
 * 1953: Posco Steel Corporation is founded as a joint
 * 1953: GDP Growth rate increases from 3.8% in 1952 to
 * 1954: Gimpo International Airport is completed first
 * 1954: Manchuria suffers from hyperinflation which hits
 * 1954: Zeng Hongzhang gets married and will have 6
 * 1954: As a result of deficit spending from high
 * 1954: Manchuria’s GDP hits $3-billion but most of this
 * 1954: Kim Chwa-chin orders construction on the Yunfeng
 * 1955: Korea produces its first solely made car Hyundai
 * 1955: Korea has a fertility rate of 4.53 Manchuria has
 * 1955: Fifth child is born Kyung-hee
 * 1955: LG manufactures Korea’s first refrigerator
 * 1955: The government owned Bank of Korea begins to
 * 1955: Kim Chwa-chin raises interest rates on commercial
 * 1955: President Kim Chwa-chin meets with Prime Minister
 * 1955: The wage ratio for (America to Korea) is now 15
 * 1955: President Eisenhower increases aid to Korea for
 * 1955: Relations with Japan are normalized, and the two
 * 1955: Consumer society in Korea is still in its
 * 1955: Roughly 174,000 international tourists visit Korea
 * 1955: POSCO makes a deal with Japan and Nippon steel
 * 1956: Korean textile exports surpass $50-million
 * 1956: 32 year old master orator, liberal, Shipping
 * 1956: The second phase of the modern state of the art
 * 1956: GDP Growth in Korea increases to 12.7% from 7.2%
 * 1956: LG manufactures Korea’s first television
 * 1956: as Jong-sil and his six kids stay behind to take
 * 1957: With unemployment down from 11.2% in 1952 to 7.6%
 * 1957: March 24; Construction begins on Korea’s first
 * 1957: Establishment of Lotte Confectionary company the
 * 1957: Korean steel production finally surpasses its
 * 1957: Post War pre oil crisis, inflation hits a high of
 * 1957: With Manchuria receiving $678-million in foreign
 * 1957: Korean exports surpass $100-million
 * 1957: Riots erupt all over Manchuria over the policies
 * 1957: Hyundai begins construction on a very large dry
 * 1957: The 890 foot tall Pyongyang TV Tower is completed
 * 1957: Park family gets access to electricity for the
 * 1957: Korean Air begins its first international routine
 * 1957: Kim Chwa-chin makes the third postwar five year
 * 1957: Korea’s debt to GDP ratio is now 247%
 * 1958: July 5; Zeng Hongzhang has a son Zeng Guoqing
 * 1958: LG manufactures Korea’s first air conditioner
 * 1958: Construction begins on the Pyongyang-Seoul-Busan
 * 1958: Unemployment in Manchuria is at 12% where the
 * 1958: Construction of stage one on the Hamhung Steel
 * 1958: Kim Chwa-chin abolishes High-School entrance
 * 1958: Charter of National Education is adopted, the
 * 1958: Universities and Colleges are now allowed to
 * 1958: December 15; Korea’s first highway opens the
 * 1958: Travel times from Seoul to Busan are reduced to 4
 * 1958: Samsung Electronics is founded where they would
 * 1958: Korea’s GDP surpasses $10 Billion
 * 1958: Korean steel production surpasses 5,000,000 tons
 * 1958: The third phase of construction at Pohang Steel
 * 1958: April 22nd, Lieutenant General Huang
 * 1958: September 22nd, Zhang Qilong is ousted
 * 1958: First building in Asia over 300 feet in Seoul the
 * 1959: Construction on stage two of Hamhung Steel and
 * 1959: Korean steel production surpasses 10 million tons
 * 1959: March 19; Prime Minister Ji Cheong-cheon dies less
 * 1959: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $5-Billion
 * 1959: Manchurian exports reach $25-milllion
 * 1959: Korean exports in textile and clothing alone surpass
 * 1959: Huang Oudong orders all foreign goods smuggled
 * 1959: Korean GDP experiences a 14.5% growth rate,
 * 1959: Following currency reforms and re-pegging of the
 * 1959: Choi Yong-sool invents Hapkido as we know it
 * 1959: Huang Oudong finds the MIA, Manchurian Intelligence
 * 1959: Seoul Tower a 777 foot communications tower is
 * 1959: The Park family buys their first radio
 * 1959: Huang Oudong begins a mass literacy campaign even
 * 1959: The Ulsan drydock is commissioned with two
 * 1959: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives peaks in
 * 1959: Hyundai builds its first ship
 * 1959: Typhoon Sarah makes landfall in Busan with 115-mph
 * 1959: Manchu Air the first domestic Airline in
 * 1959: Yunfeng Dam is completed
 * 1959: Huang Oudong reforms Manchuria’s tax system and
 * 1959: In the past four years unemployment has decreased
 * 1960: Huang Oudong is elected president of Manchuria
 * 1960: Huang Oudong says it will increase exports
 * 1960: Hainan’s population is 3,700,000 with 529,000
 * 1960: Korean inflation rate decreases rapidly from 14.3%
 * 1960: Korea’s population reaches 65 million with 8,321,000
 * 1960: Manchuria’s population reaches 64 million, with 2,337,000
 * 1960: Korea has an urbanization rate of 53%, Japan has
 * 1960: The average American worker’s wage is 9 times
 * 1960: China’s GDP is $55.5 Billion, Japan’s GDP is
 * 1960: Japan produces 450,000 cars, while Korea produces
 * 1960: 69% of Korean households have a radio, 42% have a
 * 1960: The 31 story 361-foot tall Samil Building is
 * 1960: Life expectancy reaches 67.7 years in Japan, 64.5
 * 1960: There are 530,000 registered cars in Korea
 * 1960: 59% of households have access to electricity (93%
 * 1960: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 50%
 * 1960: Korea has a fertility rate of 3.47, and Manchuria
 * 1960: With unemployment declining from 7.6% in 1956 to
 * 1960: New value of the Won is set at 400 Won = 1 USD
 * 1960: 1% of Koreans live in apartments, 95% live in
 * 1960: In order to solve the high inflation problem
 * 1961: March 10; Korea tests its first bomb, the “Sejong-1”
 * 1961: Park family buys their first sewing machine
 * 1961: Japan’s GDP surpasses China’s GDP
 * 1961: Korea’s GDP surpasses Australia
 * 1961: Huang Oudong begins a family planning program to
 * 1961: Korea National Highway 1 opens
 * 1961: Inflation in Manchuria plummets from 218% in 1959
 * 1961: Manchurian exports surpass $50-million
 * 1961: The 27 story 378-foot tall Baek Nam Co. Travel
 * 1961: Manchuria’s GDP Per Capita plummets to $87, with
 * 1961: The fourth and final phase of Pohang Steel Work’s
 * 1962: With inflation in Manchuria now down to 12% and a
 * 1962: Construction begins in Hainan of a highway
 * 1962: General and war-hero of World War II, Park
 * 1962: Kim Chwa-chin and Park Chung-hee collaborate the
 * 1962: Park moves into a 450 sqft 2 room tenement house
 * 1962: Park Chung-Hee promises to make Korea one of the
 * 1962: Korean exports reach $500 million dollars in
 * 1962: March 12; Ex-President Kim Gu dies at age 85 in
 * 1962: April 19; Korean Air begins international flights
 * 1962: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives drops
 * 1962: The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle is introduced Korea’s
 * 1962: Construction on stage three is completed Hamhung
 * 1962: Debt to GDP ratio of Korea is now 104%
 * 1962: Unemployment Rate is 3.3%, about a third of the

First jet airliners Korean Air Lines receives produces 189,000 cars initiation of the five year plans and rapid export growth GDP growth in    Manchuria increases from 3.0% in 1962 to 10.2% in 1963 as inflation increases from 10.1% to 28.3% $248.3-million in 1962 to $181.8-million in 1963 dropping below $200-million and in constant dollars it drops from $1.86-Billion in 1962 to $1.36-Billion in 1963, dropping below $1.5-billion for the first time Brazil attend school even though he has to walk 3 miles to do so     Works national highway interstate system Anchorage universal health care in Korea by 1975, with a law requiring mandatory social health insurance for workers in large corporations of over 500 employees, with coverage eventually being expanded to smaller businesses, public servants, and private school employees, and to bring 300 insurers into one national health insurance Chungju Dam, the Soyang Dam, Yunfeng Dam, forced to abdicate the throne in 1912 flees China to Mukden Pyongyang Subway line major nation except France, China, and Korea Hyundai Stellar expanding the Seoul Metro, to a total length from 16.4 km to a length of    100 km by decade’s end he will quit after 10 years, makes labor and trade unions illegal, and increases business loans a movement to modernize the rural economy which he thought had been somewhat neglected since the war years, promotion of self-government and cooperation in rural communities, diligence, self-help, and collaboration are very strongly promoted rapid than ever before Seoul by the year 1963 a proposed tunnel connecting Kyushu Island, to Pusan, saying the project is to costly, and unrealistic anti-poverty effort begins Incheon travel by bus South Vietnam and to win continuing economic aid from the Americans by    1973 they will have sent 330,000 soldiers second only to Manchuria and the United States by this point defense spending is $1.02-billion about 3.6% of the nation’s GDP martial law establishing a dictatorship on the model of Chiang Kai-shek of    Taiwan, and creates a much more aggressive modernization and industrialization economic development policies modeled as a mix of the policies of Gojong the Great and other great leaders Hydrogen bomb it is a 2-Megaton device capital of Manchuria and Dalian the economic capital of Manchuria nuclear bomb becoming the world’s sixth nuclear power, this leads to    Manchuria to start secretly developing a nuclear weapon, and to an arms race between China and Korea penalizes families for having more than 6 kids, and sets a target fertility rate of 4 children per woman by 1974 a fertility rate of 5.36 in the Assembly to 312 of a possible 400 seats some protests erupt out of    this saying that the elections were rigged Modernization of the countryside New Community Movement produces 263,000 cars, the number of registered vehicles in Korea surpasses 1 million from $151.5-million in 1964 to $130.4-million in 1965 dropping below $150-million for the first time and in constant dollars it drops below $1-billion for the first time to $950-million in 1965 from $1.14-billion in 1964, Manchuria still receives around $410-million in foreign aid about $3-billion (constant dollars) an very ambitious 490 foot tall dam that will displace 10,000 villagers first stage high inflation reemerges as inflation increases from 1.8% in 1962 to 4.6% in 1964 to 5.8% in 1965 as much as the average Korean worker, and 4.4 times as much as the average Japanese worker lines begin docks 3 and 4 begin operations is completed the second half of the 1960s compared to the 7.1% Manchuria averaged during the first half of the 1960s, Korea will average 11.5% GDP growth during the second half of the 1960s, compared to the 9.0% growth rate during the first half of the 1960s, and Japan will average 10.6% growth after averaging 10.8% in the first half, and China will average 6.8% growth compared to -1.5% growth during the first half of the decade Korea, now 90.7% of households have a radio, 30.2% of households have television, 9.6% have a telephone, 6.5% have a refrigerator, and 1% have a    washing machine program to counter the nuclear threat from the Chinese, and the Soviets, this draws immediate criticism from both Korea and the United States and Prime Minister Sato all sign the Treaty of Basic Relations Between Korea Manchuria and Japan, in order to null and void all past acts of    aggression between the three nations, and to pay for war damages and to     open a diplomatic relationship between the two nations, Japan agrees to     give Korea annual aid of $50,000,000 as reparations for the two wars of     1910-13, 1938-45, along with the Manchurian incident, Korea agrees to give Manchuria, engineers, capital and equipment along with annual aid of    $125,000,000 as reparations for the imperial period, Japan also gives Manchuria aid of $75,000,000 for the Colonization of 1932-45, anti-Japanese riots breakout all across Korea while anti-Korean and anti-Japanese riots breakout all across Manchuria and by 1973 they will have sent 600,000 soldiers into Vietnam to get more aid from the United States, and to maintain good terms with protection from Chinese troops on their Western border his 39 year rule saw the country through the Great Depression, WWII, and into an economic miracle where most people will learn of his death either through television or radio, when most people heard of Sunjong’s death by    word of mouth and newspaper, he is succeeded by his second son who did not die in war 53 year old Emperor Wujong surpassing China retail store conglomerate in Manchuria education about 2.2% of the GDP, or 14% of all government expenditures Seoul in the year 1965
 * 1963: Japan produces 1 million cars, while Korea
 * 1963: With the secure sources of foreign aid and the
 * 1963: Manchurian exports surpass $100-million
 * 1963: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives drops from
 * 1963: Korea’s GDP surpasses $25 Billion and surpasses
 * 1963: Zeng Guoqing becomes the first family member to
 * 1963: Park orders construction on the Gwangyang Steel
 * 1963: President Park orders the construction of an
 * 1963: Korean Air begins flights to Paris and London via
 * 1963: President Park introduces a plan to achieve
 * 1963: President Park orders Construction begin on the
 * 1963: Korean steel production surpasses 15-million tons
 * 1963: Emperor Puyi the Manchu Emperor of China who was
 * 1963: President Park orders construction on a Pusan and
 * 1963: The Partial Test Ban Treaty is signed by every
 * 1963: Hyundai releases its first high demand car the
 * 1963: President Park orders construction begin rapidly
 * 1963: President Park continues authoritarian rule says
 * 1963: Korea’s personal savings rate is 19.1%
 * 1963: President Park begins the New Community Movement,
 * 1963: Gimpo Airport surpasses 1 million passengers
 * 1963: Manchurian exports rapid growth becomes even more
 * 1963: Rural electrification is at 25% by this point
 * 1964: President Park, and Prime Minister Ikeda agree against
 * 1964: The rural education, electrification,
 * 1964: Park family goes on their first vacation to
 * 1964: New value of the Won is set at 480 Won = 1 USD
 * 1964: Korea begins sending troops to Vietnam to help
 * 1964: Huang Oudong is reelected president and declares
 * 1964: September 10; Korea successfully tests its first
 * 1964: Huang Oudong declares Mukden the political
 * 1964: October 16th; China tests its first
 * 1964: Huang Oudong sets up a family planning policy and
 * 1964: Korea has a fertility rate of 2.82 Manchuria has
 * 1964: The GNP gains 12 seats increasing their majority
 * 1965: Korean exports surpass $2 Billion
 * 1965: Japan produces 2 million cars, while Korea
 * 1965: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives drops
 * 1965: Huang Oudong orders construction of Baishan Dam
 * 1965: Construction on Gwangyang Steel Works begins, the
 * 1965: The period of high economic growth combined with
 * 1965: The average American wage earner earns 6.7 times
 * 1965: Construction on the Pusan and Pyongyang Subway
 * 1965: Expansion at the Ulsan Dry Dock continues, as dry
 * 1965: The 777-foot tall observation tower Seoul Tower
 * 1965: Manchuria will average 11.0% GDP growth during
 * 1965: Television starts to become a common sight in
 * 1965: Huang Oudong begins a nuclear weapons development
 * 1965: Manchurian exports surpass $250-million
 * 1965: President Huang Oudong, President Park Chung-hee,
 * 1965: Manchuria begins sending soldiers into Vietnam
 * 1965: August 15; Emperor Yuljong dies at the age of 88,
 * 1965: Korea produces 18.0 million tons of steel
 * 1965: Dashang Conglomerate founded in Qingwa the first
 * 1965: Park family buys their very first television set
 * 1965: The Korean Government spends $730.9-million on

Public funeral of Emperor Yuljong family farm for the first time gets it’s thatched roof replaced by    aluminum and brick tile, and the house is given access to electricity and plumbing for the first time establishes a new constitution giving him much more control, he    establishes a dictatorship (Pixing Rule) in a very authoritarian police state from his allies in his National Republican Party he also declares martial law suspending free speech and elections and also begins establishing a personality cult, and makes anti-communism stance much stronger arresting anybody who is even suspected of being leftist, this is    a result of the Cultural Revolution, and China acquiring a nuclear weapon in China now fears for renewed invasion are greater than ever, this is the beginning of the Fourth Manchurian Republic Iron works, the capacity has now increased to 7,200,000 during the 1950s its Gini Index declining from 0.448 in 1950 to 0.332 in    1960 during the first decade of export-oriented growth it has since massively increased to 0.391 in the past six years 9.3 million tons, and Hamhung has a production capacity of 7.2 million tons, and Kaesong has a capacity of 2.0 million tons Gwangyang Steel Works into the Presidential House in Mukden and assassinate President Oudong but the assassination attempt fails as he was on trip at the time to Harbin and occupied by the Chinese Army changing the 120th Parallel to    the 121st Parallel joins mandatory 2 year conscription into the military Samsung factory in the year 1966 health insurance to the self-employed in rural and urban areas increase development of technology-intensive and skilled-labor-intensive industries and industrial production in consumer electronics, transport machinery, shipbuilding, automobiles, petrochemicals, oil-refining and have industries compete internationally, GDP growth will average 10.4% focuses on further increasing raw mineral export, building import substitution industries, such as iron, steel, chemicals, and heavy industries shifting emphasis away from light industries such as textiles, and furniture towards heavy industries GDP growth for this plan will average 9.7% with the Manchurian Miracle well on its way (the conglomerate becomes Korea’s first billion-dollar corporation with    $1.3-billion in revenues) re-elected with 71.7% of the electoral vote, voter turnout is 97.6% the results of the election spark massive student protests where 50,000 students protest as a result succeded by Pujie capacity of 2,700,000 tons Ministry dramatically increasing enrollment to higher education as a    whole, by this time 1,100,000 students attend higher education institutions he does this not only to allow more people into university but to decrease student activism by making the college environment much more competitive so students won’t be able to become politically active members in a population of 70,000,000 who act as a secret police force Petrochemical Plant in Korea, 1967 Motors under the orders of Huang Oudong to start a domestic automobile industry to Beijing to the Zhongnanhai compound to have Mao Zedong assassinated but the attempt fails a fertility rate of 4.72 their majority to 292 $113.5-million in 1967 to $71.6-million in 1968 dropping below $100-million while in constant dollars it drops below $500-million from $780-million in 1967 to $472.6-million in 1968 Iron corporation is founded modern steel mills in Anshan Steel Works is completed increasing the steel works capacity to 5,400,000 tons, construction on the third stage begins later in the year attend college he will attend Songsil University where he will major in    buisness rigged Presidential appointed election with 97% of the vote this sparks some protests but they’re quickly suppressed country where workers feel that their wages are being kept artificially low, they try to form trade unions but the military is sent to stop them and they’re successfully suppressed and defeated Denmark produces 1,123,000 cars superstar with the hit song “Nima” in the album “No Spring Rain” he will become known as Korea’s answer to Brian Wilson and Jimi Hendrix and one of    the most influential Korean musicians of all time Olympic Stadium is completed beginning after hosting the 1960 Asian Cup in    1960 at a cost of $50,000,000 one of the most modern stadiums in the world is completed it has a capacity of 100,000 and will host the 1970 Asian games along with the 1980 Summer Olympics it is built with elegant curves to resemble a Porcelain Vase of the Joseon Dynasty it will undergo $5,000,000 in renovations from 1974 to 1976 to prepare for hosting the Olympics Shenyang in the year 1968 experiences 16.9% GDP growth, Manchuria’s rate is 14.4%, Hainan is 14.1%, Korea’s is 13.1%, and Japan’s is 12.5% completed himself more power but refuses to change his title from “President” to    “President Generalissimo” saying that since the 1960 Election he is now a     civilian leader believing “It was that kind of arrogance and forced self-worship that cost Chiang Kai-shek mainland China” conference by Huang Oudong and attempts to assassinate Oudong the attempt fails Manchuria’s first highway connecting Qinginwa to Mukden to Harbin, going through Changchun-Fu on the way, as a symbolic movement the high way is    588 miles long based on Korean President Park’s “New Community Movement” to get the Manchurian population to self-modernize and increase self-motivation Manchurians working on a rural modernization effort Non-Proliferation Treaty with the exception of Israel, Pakistan, India, China, and Manchuria Flights 009, 011, and 013 are taken hostage by a Chinese Guerillas soldiers disguised as civilians total of 12 crew, and 148 passengers a    total are taken to Beijing and all Manchu passengers are held hostage additional 60.2 km of subway its constant dollars peak at $4.6-billion manufacturing their first semiconductor to challenge the United States who have a world monopoly on computers by this point who will democratize the country by the year 1983 construction of an ambitious steel mill project in Anshan modled in design and construction after the steel mills in Pohang and Gwangyang, the Koreans provide $50,000,000 in credit and finance, and POSCO steel company provides technical assistance, equipment, and construction techniques, and agree to increase foreign aid to $100,000,000 annually as an apology for the colonial period to help normalize relations, and become friends as    nations Seoul by the year 1969 Billion, while Korea’s GDP is $83.8 Billion, Manchuria’s GDP is $22.6 Billion, and Hainan’s GDP is $2.9-Billion. Hainan will average 10.4% GDP growth Manchuria will average 10.6%, while Korea will average 8.2% GDP growth over the 1970s, while China will average 7.5% and Japan will average 5.4% GDP-growth rate, the GDP per capita for both countries are $1,974 for Japan, $1,148 for Korea, $553 for Hainan, and $279 for Manchuria, and $118 for China, Korea receives $350-million in foreign aid, and Manchuria receives about $3.5-Billion in    foreign aid has an urbanization rate of 73%, Hainan has a rate of 46%, Manchuria has a    rate of 38%, and China has a rate of 17% in Seoul, 3,813,000 in Pusan, 3,457,000 in Pyongyang, 2,884,000 in    Incheon, 2,657,000 in Taegu, with 798,000 Koreans living in America, and 1,701,000 living in the USSR living in Mukden, 3,122,000 living in Harbin, 3,430,000 living in    Changchun-Fu, and 2,339,000 living in Qinginwa living in Haikou, 320,000 living in Sanya, and 285,000 living in Danzhou from $1.02-billion in 1964 to $4.86-billion in 1970 or 5.8% of the GDP a 476% increase in just six years 356,000 visit Manchuria and 579,000 visit Hainan 76%    connects Mukden to Yingkou a distance of 108 miles after 1-1/2 years of     construction on orders of Huang Oudong them and 37.8% have a refrigerator, Korea produces 1.34 million cars, and 35.1 million tons of steel, while Manchuria only 62% of households have radio, 33% have a sewing machine, 6.4% of have television, 4.8% have telephone, 2.2% have a refrigerator, and 0.2% have a washing machine also Manchuria only produces 1,600,000 tons of steel and Hainan produces 400,000 tons of    steel years in Hainan and 65.8 years in Korea, 62.9 years in China, and 61.2 years in Manchuria The city of Haikou in the year 1970 almost six-fold increase in the 1960s, there are still only 250,000 registered cars in Manchuria, there are 120,000 registered cars in Hainan a 3-fold increase from a decade ago years (with construction cancelled in 1953 due to funds and restarted    again in 1958) of construction to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of defeating the Japanese off the peninsula and maintaining independence against Japanese invasion, and colonization, and memorialize the Battle of Pyongyang as the turning point is completed, raising the steel works capacity to 8,100,000 tons, construction on the fourth stage begins the 1976 Winter Games after narrowly defeating Denver 35 to 34 in the fourth round of the Olympics bidding throughout the 1970s and 80s, over 80% of housing stock in Korea currently is built after 1970 a rate of 4.53 to electricity however, only 17% of rural households have access to    electricity 1% of Manchurians live in apartments poverty has decreased from 56% in 1958 to 47% in 1962 to 25% in 1970 earlier with higher education the number of students attending higher education increases to 1,940,000 a 73% increase on January 4th, replacing the KSIA, opening at a base value of    100.00 electricity (100% urban, 95% rural), and 89% of households have access to    running water (98% urban, 71% rural) as the average wage in Korea, and 2.5 times as much as the average Japanese wage down from 10% just 8 years earlier begins offering itself as a tourist destination for wealthy Japanese, Korean, and Hong Kong businessmen 5 years as mayor he will commission works to improve the city such as    housing building programs to address the growing housing shortage problems, the KLI 63 Building, his handling of the devastating 1972 floods, and all the issues of the city will be critical in getting Seoul nominated to host the 1980 Summer Olympics Korean Airlines receives its first Boeing 747 on July 7th, drops below 150 points on August 6th, won’t see that mark again until 1975 widow So-young live with Jong-sil supervisor his salary increases from $.73/hour to $1/hour into the city of Mukden where Zeng Hongzhang moves himself his wife and six children into the city where he will get a job as a construction worker his wife will find a job in the textile factory, they will move into a household with electricity for the first time where he will make $.10/hour they move into a 320 sqft shanty-house where they will have access to electricity for the first time he also buys a radio focusing on Commercial Aircraft manufacturing year old waitress at a local restaurant right by the University subway line in Mukden construction begins on the Mukden Metro Korea with 58% of the vote, Park’s appointed successor, some suspect that the percentage was lowered to help quell the already greatly suppressed pro-democracy protests, voter turnout was an impossibly high 98.9%, though results of this election spark protests, just as they did with the 1967 election his opponent Kim Dae-jung accuses the Elected Junta of election rigging and protests break out, and the GNP loses 32 seats decreasing their majority to 260 out of 400 white-collar job as an office cubicle worker at a local company making $0.90/hour and moves into a 300 sqft flat tons captivity the Manchurian flight hostages are released in order to improve image of China during Nixon’s visit, still the 10,000s of abducted Manchu’s being held prisoner in China are unknown rates rises from an annual rate of 8.0% in 1971, which was increase from 4.8% in 1970, (high inflation is very common for high growth economies) to    an annual rate of 14.2% in 1972 Construction of KLI 63 Steel Works is completed increasing capacity up to 11,100,000 tons begins mass producing steel, with a capacity of 1,500,000 tons, with the immediate success the second stage of Anshan Mill begins construction, along with the construction of Nuizhuang Steel and Iron Works units focusing on utilization of new found capital in steel, iron, transport machinery, oil refining, coal export, and household electronics GDP growth for this plan will average 10.4% are made the ML-5 the plane has a top speed of Mach-1.3, a range of 900 miles, and can hold 5,000-lbs of armaments as an arms race begins between China and Manchuria now that Manchuria is gaining an established heavy industry base though the design is based off a 1961 American fighter with American engineers collaborating with Chung Il-kwon; Park promotes the idea of further HCI, Petrochemicals and heavy industry promotion, automobile promotion, while Chung Il-kwon decides to build and develop high tech industries, factories, R&D centers, increased science and technology, catch up    technologically with the West, GDP growth for this plan will average 7.1% tons Seoul and around the Seoul metropolitan area on August 19th alone considering this happened fairly late in an already wetter than average monsoon season roughly 13 landslides alone occur in Seoul accounting for 175 deaths and leaving 200,000 homeless in Seoul alone, all the rivers become flooded; the city of Yeongwol with a population of    30,000 about 90-miles southeast of Seoul is completely submerged roughly 632 people were killed 460 of them being drowning victims when all is said and done roughly 500,000 people are homeless this helps increase housing shortages total damage is $1.03-Billion it would be the costliest disaster until Typhoon Rusa 30 years later Portugal because of Portugal’s low wages and low ownership of televisions, to start selling televisions in Europe below $100-milion in constant dollars they’re 1,250-ft long and can hold 3,000,000-bareels of oil additional 32.6 km of subway production base in the United States in touch with children, the oldest his daughter Young-sook lives with her husband in a tiny house in Pyongyang and is pregnant with her third and final child, his third daughter Hyun-sook is getting married, his fourth child is attending college, and the youngest daughter is starting her senior year of high school Manchuria, replacing the old steel completely destroyed during the 1950-53 war, in Anshan, taking advantage of the regions natural resources The Anshan Steel Works include all employees to attend high school foreign aid construction Manchuria’s first highway completely opens uniting all the 4 major cities in the country from Qingwa (Dalian), Mukden, Changchun-fu to    Harbin War ends, after the death of 8,942 Manchurian soldiers, and 5,310 Korean soldiers children per woman by 1985, after seeing how successful family planning measures are the gold standard its fixed value of 580 Won per US dollar no longer applies to $250,000,000 a year after Japan, West Germany, and the United States agree to start cutting aid to them to improve relations even further with no strings attached as a gift for the colonial rule and as a sympathy to    the less fortunate, the Manchurians hatred of Koreans begins to lighten at     this point, and offers apologies and acknowledgement of the wrong doings of Korea to Manchuria, as Koreans are very sympathetic to the less fortunate having been the less fortunate ones in history, thought they look down at those who aren’t as well off as them, they feel a universal guilt towards their actions with Manchuria resulting in the nation’s first nationwide color TV broadcast, and establishes a professional baseball, basketball and soccer league ordered by Huang Oudong it is a massive 1,500,000-sqft structure designed to produce jet airliners liberalization, beginning of neoliberal economic reforms and policies this is to ease inflation bringing GDP growth down from 9.9% in 1972 to 8.7% in    1973 inflation stabilizes at 11.8% in 1973, before the embargo seat Honqqi H101 a propeller airplane, and its first cargo plane Reunion Program” campaign organized by President Chung Il-Kwon and broadcasted by KBS is broadcasted on television for 138-days to reunite families separated by the war, the campaign is extremely successful because by this time 98-99% of homes have television, over 10,000 families are reunited Byung-ho reunites with his sister who was a year younger than him who had been living in Pusan since the war Houses Construction Project, in order to resolve the housing shortage with the amount of land the floods of the previous summer helped the government realize that there was a severe housing shortage in the country that was only exacerbated by the floods exceeds 1,000,000 units container ship capable of carrying 5,500-containers the ship is 1,000-ft long now makes $.21/hour Korea first recession since WWII in 1973-74 Stellar OPEC and declares them a neutral nation in order to keep receiving oil 9,376,000 that year it will not surpass that high again until 1976 pro-industrial policies feeding an export driven boom; and fiscal conservatism $706.2-million in 1972 to $552.3-million in 1973 dropping over $100-million while in constant dollars it drops below $3-billion from $3.879-billion in 1972 to $2.856-billion in 1973 passengers Post-War Economic Miracle (1950-73) with their GDP increasing from $4.259-Billioni in 1952 to $147.2-Billion in 1973 and GDP per capita increased from $77 in 1952 to $1,962 in 1973 Construction of the Dalian Shipyard in 1973
 * 1966: Jong-sil is very happy and greatful as the Park
 * 1966: Huang Oudong puts a self-coup on himself then
 * 1966: Korean rural electrification surpasses 50%
 * 1966: Construction is completed on Hamhung Steel and
 * 1966: Despite Korea’s income inequality decreasing
 * 1966: Pohang Steel Works has a production capacity of
 * 1966: Construction begins on the second stage of
 * 1966: A team of Chinese red guards attempt to sneak
 * 1966: The city of Jinxian is taken by Chinese guerillas
 * 1966: Korean steel production surpasses 20 million tons
 * 1966: Park Young-soo graduates high school in Seoul
 * 1966: Gimpo airport surpasses 2 million passengers
 * 1967: Manchurian exports surpass $500 Million
 * 1967: Korean exports surpass $3 Billion
 * 1967: President Park introduces a program to expand
 * 1967: Park Chung-Hee second five year plan, plans to
 * 1967: Huang Oudong creates a second five year plan
 * 1967: FAW Conglomerate is founded in Mukden, Manchuria
 * 1967: Samsung produces 2-million black and white TVs
 * 1967: With unemployment down to 2.2% President Park is
 * 1967: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $10-Billion
 * 1967: Pretender Manchu Emperor Pyui dies and is
 * 1967: First stage of Gawnagyang Steel Works completed
 * 1967: President Park makes reforms to Ministry of Education,
 * 1967: The KCIA reaches its peak size and power with 750,000
 * 1967: Korea’s GDP surpasses $50 Billion
 * 1967: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 60%
 * 1968: First Manchurian automobile company founded Hongqi
 * 1968: Huang attempts to send a special unit of soldiers
 * 1968: Korea has a fertility rate of 2.54, Manchuria has
 * 1968: The GNP loses 20 seats in the Assembly decreasing
 * 1968: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives drops from
 * 1968: Anshan Steel Manchuria’s first modern Steel and
 * 1968: Manchuria begins construction on one of the most
 * 1968: Second stage of construction on the Gwangyang
 * 1968: Rural electrification surpasses 75%
 * 1968: Jong-ul buys the farm family their first TV set
 * 1968: Park Young-soo becomes the first family member to
 * 1968: Huang Oudong wins another term but this time in a
 * 1968: Labor unrest begins in local factories in the
 * 1968: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses South Africa and
 * 1968: Kangxi Electronics is founded in Mukden
 * 1968: Korea’s GDP surpasses India’s
 * 1968: Japan produces 4 million cars, while Korea
 * 1968: Shin Jung-hyeon becomes the first Korean rock
 * 1968: In Seoul after 8 years of construction the Seoul
 * 1969: Lotte Department store founded
 * 1969: 1969 is the best year for East-Asia, China
 * 1969: The 453 foot tall 37 story Hotel Lotte Seoul is
 * 1969: After winning a third term Huang Oudong gives
 * 1969: Manchurian exports surpass $1 billion
 * 1969: A student protestor sneaks into a speech
 * 1969: January 1st; Construction begins on
 * 1969: Korean exports surpass $5 billion
 * 1969: Huang Oudong creates a rural modernization effort
 * 1969: Every nation in the world sings the Nuclear
 * 1969: Pusan Subway line 1 opens with 16.2 km of railway
 * 1969: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $20-billion
 * 1969: Inflation during the 1960s peaks at 8.7%
 * 1969: November 22nd; 3 flights Manchu Air
 * 1969: Line 2 of the Seoul Metro opens with an
 * 1969: Foreign aid to Manchuria peaks at $735.3-million
 * 1969: Samsung enters the DRAM Semiconductor market
 * 1969: Byung-ho now makes $.59/hour
 * 1969: Li Zongren dies and is succeded by Lee Teng-hui
 * 1969: Korea provides money to Manchuria for
 * 1970: Japan’s GDP is $206 Billion, China’s GDP is $87.0
 * 1970: Korea has an urbanization rate of 66.7%, Japan
 * 1970: Korea has a population of 73,000,000 with 9,549,000
 * 1970: Manchuria has a population of 81,000,000 with 5,393,000
 * 1970: Hainan has a population of 5,300,000 with 1,144,000
 * 1970: Korean government defense spending has increased
 * 1970: New value of the Won is set at 580 Won = 1 USD
 * 1970: 976,000 international tourists visit Korea,
 * 1970: The literacy rate in Manchuria has increased to
 * 1970: Manchuria’s first freeway is completed it
 * 1970: 86.7% of Korean households have television in
 * 1970: Life expectancy is 71.9 years in Japan, 68.3
 * 1970: There are 3,000,000 registered cars in Korea, an
 * 1970: Arch of Triumph is built in Pyongyang after 20
 * 1970: Construction on Gwangyang Steel Works third stage
 * 1970: Seoul hosts the 6th Asian Games
 * 1970: May 12th; Wonsan is selected to host
 * 1970: A Housing construction boom of unprecedented lasts
 * 1970: Korea has a fertility rate of 2.32, Manchuria has
 * 1970: Park family buys their very first refrigerator
 * 1970: 91% of urban households in Manchuria have access
 * 1970: About 7% of Koreans live in apartments, and only
 * 1970: The percentage of Manchurians living in absolute
 * 1970: As a result of the reforms en-placed 3 years
 * 1970: The KOSPI (Korea Stock Exchange Composite), opens
 * 1970: 98% of Households in Korea have access to
 * 1970: The average wage in America is 4.3 times as much
 * 1970: Gimpo Airport surpasses 5 million passengers
 * 1970: Unemployment in Manchuria is now down to 5.3%
 * 1970: In order to attract more foreign capital Hainan
 * 1970: Yang Tae-shok is elected Mayor of Seoul over his
 * 1971: The KOSPI surpasses 150 points for the first time
 * 1971: Formation of the Korean Baseball League
 * 1971: March 1; Jong-yul dies at the age of 84, his
 * 1971: After 15 years Byung-ho gets promoted to factory
 * 1971: The Zeng family moves off the family farm and
 * 1971: Huang Oudong orders Hongqi Industries to start
 * 1971: Young-soo meets future wife Kim Mi-kyung a 21
 * 1971: Korean exports surpass $10 Billion
 * 1971: Huang Oudong orders construction to begin on a
 * 1972: The Zeng family buys a sewing machine
 * 1972: General Chung Il-Kwon is elected President of
 * 1972: Young-soo graduates from college gets a
 * 1972: Manchurian steel production surpasses 2,000,000
 * 1972: February 24th; After 825 Days in
 * 1972: Economic problems arise, when high inflation
 * 1972: Korea’s GDP surpasses $100 Billion and Canada’s
 * 1972: The fourth stage of construction at Gwangyang
 * 1972: The Anshan steel mill goes online, Manchuria
 * 1972: Korean automobile production surpasses 2,000,000
 * 1972: Huang Oudong creates a third five year plan
 * 1972: The first domestic made Manchurian fighter planes
 * 1972: Park Chung-Hee creates his final five year plan
 * 1972: Korea’s unemployment rate reaches low of 1.6%
 * 1972: Manchurian steel production surpasses 2-million
 * 1972: August 18-20: Roughly 18-inches of rain falls in
 * 1972: Samsung builds its first foreign subsidiary in
 * 1972: The amount of foreign aid Korea receives drops
 * 1972: Daewoo builds the world’s largest oil tanker
 * 1972: Line 3 of the Seoul Metro opens with an
 * 1972: LG establishes its first foreign overseas
 * 1972: Byung-ho buys a telephone for the house to keep
 * 1972: The first modern steel mill is completed in
 * 1973: President Chung expands the health care program to
 * 1973: Zeng Guoqing becomes the first male family member
 * 1973: Korea for the first time is completely off of
 * 1973: Manchurian exports surpass $5 Billion
 * 1973: June 7; Young-soo and Mi-kyung get married
 * 1973: March 3rd; After 4 years of
 * 1973: Paris Peace Accords are signed and the Vietnam
 * 1973: Huang Oudong sets target fertility rate to hit 2
 * 1973: Korean exports surpass $20 Billion
 * 1973: The Won is no longer a fixed currency, it is off
 * 1973: Chung Il-Kwon increases foreign aid to Manchuria
 * 1973: Chung Il-Kwon legalizes color television,
 * 1973: Korea’s GDP surpasses China’s GDP
 * 1973: Construction is completed on an airplane factory
 * 1973: Chung Il-Kwon begins a process of economic
 * 1973: Manchuria manufacturers its first airliner a 57
 * 1973: June 15th – October 31st; A “Family
 * 1973: Korean steel production surpasses 40-million tons
 * 1973: The Korean government initiates The Two Million
 * 1973: Hyundai’s annual automobile production now
 * 1973: Hyundai has now built the world’s largest
 * 1973: Zeng Hangzhang gets a job in a factory where he
 * 1973: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $30-billion
 * 1973: October 16th; The oil crisis strikes
 * 1973: Byung-ho buys his first car a 1973 Hyundai
 * 1973: October 20th; Chung Il-kwon meets with
 * 1973: National Pension System implemented and reformed
 * 1973: Gimpo Airport reaches a high in passengers of
 * 1973: Korea’s debt-to-GDP ratio is now 16% thanks to
 * 1973: Foreign Aid to Manchuria drops from
 * 1973: Taoxian International Airport surpasses 1 million
 * 1973: Korea joins the OECD
 * 1973: Korea has benefitted greatly from the Global

World’s largest container ship launched in 1973 in Ulsan host the 1980 Summer Olympics after defeating Los Angeles in round 1 with Seoul 23 votes, Moscow 21 Votes, Los Angeles 14 votes, then round 2 winning 31 votes to Moscow’s 28 votes goes online providing 585Mw reactor and a 650Mw reactor in Busan, Chung Il-kwon orders faster construction work on the final two reactors with the energy crisis with work below standard to be destroyed and built again be built to reduce electricity demand of oil, 2 are built in Gyeongbuk, 1 in Jeonnam in 1974 of his life had his home nation seen independence an experience that made him very xenophobic and distrusting of other Asian races line in Mukden opens plant now has a capacity of 3,500,000 tons rail line although thanks to quadrupled oil prices Korea’s GDP shrinks -1.5% in 1974 down from 8.7% the previous year while Manchuria’s grows 8.7% down from 15.4% the previous year America and Australia to open a Burger King in the city of Seoul, the same year the country gets its first KFC connects Dalian to Harbin it is seen as a symbolic measure to boost Manchurian pride and self-confidence Union (KTU) although all teachers are either fired and banned from teaching altogether inflation once again the top income tax rate is raised from 70% to 79% Interstate 1 in Manchuria Scale strikes Hanchieng, Manchuria only 13,000 people are killed because of evacuations ordered 12 hours before the earthquake struck thanks to the strange behavior of animals in the area for the preceding few days before the quake million cars are produced in Korea that year, only 28,000 cars are produced in Manchuria additional 30.6 km of subway named Eun-jung positive trade balance thanks to slightly decreased import demand due to    the recession plant in Busan both have a 895Mw capacity with 27.8 km of rail was designed by Fiat)     drops from $523.1-million in 1974 to $461.9-million in 1975 dropping below     $500-million in constant dollars that means that it drops below $2-billion     for the first time from $2.436-billion in 1974 to $1.971-billion in 1975     a rate of 3.47     30 years from 17% in 1945 to 80%     48.7% have a telephone, 71.1% have a refrigerator, and 26% have a washing     machine.       the first time as television ownership increases to 29.7% of households     with the very beginning of a consumer society     Seoul, it will be the tallest building in the world outside the United     States for 11 years until the 919 foot tall One Raffles Place in Singapore     is built in 1986     42 years of effort, accomplishing universal health care for all citizens      established as an alternative to the Military State run FKTU even though     it will not be legally recognized for 9 years completed in Pyongyang, it is built for the preparation of the 1976 Winter Olympics is completed in Haikou the first time in four years Pyongyang, 1975    serve one term in office spring draft after high school tons increasing from 4.5 million tons in 1975 to 7.0 million tons in 1976 a 55.6% increase Korea the Gini Index has declined from 0.389 in 1970 to 0.357 in 1976; however, in Manchuria the index has risen from 0.351 in 1970 to 0.408 in    1976 as a result of government keeping wages pegged down to remain competitive with exports ton capacity, and Anshan’s third stage is complete with a capacity of    5,500,000 tons $10.7-billion about 4.5% of the GDP and 27% of the entire government budget, Manchuria spends $1.96-billion on education about 2.2% of the GDP building of a 300,000 square foot distribution center in Ontario, California established from 19% in 1975 and 27% in 1974 as GDP growth increases to 13.2% in 1976 from a low of 7.3% in 1975, while Korea’s inflation plummets from 25.1% in    1974 to 15.3% in 1975 to 6.6% in 1976, as GDP Growth in Korea increases from -1.5% in 1974 to 5% in 1975 to 11.4% in 1976 Gold Medal, United States wins 3, East Germany wins 6, and the Soviet Union wins 12 41 seats in the legislature decreasing their majority to 219 200 points for the first time in Daegu a construction site explosion kills 129 people attempting to build a nuclear weapon Manchuria succeeds in testing its first nuclear weapon a 5-Kt nuclear bomb, becoming the world’s eighth nuclear state after US, USSR, UK, France, Korea, China, and India Gwangyang Steel Works passengers Korean air travel surpasses 25 million to 2.6% in 1976 history to reach a population of 10,000,000 it has been the largest city-proper in the world since 1959, the world’s next largest city-proper Tokyo, Japan only has 8,550,000 people Samsung semiconductor education in Korea about 3.2% of the population second highest in the world only to the United States, 35% of college-age men and women succeed in entering higher education institutions subway system in Manchuria it is a 14km long line Chwa-chin is elected president with 42.0% of the vote in a three way race, voter turnout is 89.2%, Kim Dae-jung wins 40.6% of the vote as the leader of the opposition to the GNP develop high-technology products continue to technologically catch up with the west, to liberalize import markets and remove trade restrictions and to start liberalizing the economy and to massively expand R&D and technology, this plan shifts emphasis away from heavy and chemical industries to promote technology-intesnvie industry sectors such as    electronics, semiconductors, precision machinery, and information GDP growth for this plan will average 6.1% surpasses 300 points for the first time Building is completed in Mukden the nation’s first skyscraper focus on skilled labor, heavy industry, and export oriented growth, GDP growth will average 8.6% seat, airliner and cargo plane with help from American and German engineers in a design based off of the Boeing 737 with a range of    2,500-miles Hongqi Shenyang Aircraft Factory in 1977
 * 1974: October 23rd; Seoul is nominated to
 * 1974: June; Korea’s first major nuclear power plant
 * 1974: Chung Il-kwon orders more nuclear power plants to
 * 1974: Unemployment in Korea soars from 1.6% in 1973 to 3%
 * 1974: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $50-billion
 * 1974: Zeng Xiahung dies at the age of 78 only 30 years
 * 1974: The first subway line in Manchuria a 7km long
 * 1974: Anshan steel works second stage complete the
 * 1974: Construction begins on Korea’s first high speed
 * 1974: The first Korean car is sold in the US
 * 1974: Samsung opens a subsidiary in the United States
 * 1974: Inflation sores to 25.1% in Korea, and 27% in Manchuria,
 * 1974: Korea becomes the first country outside of North
 * 1974: Interstate 1 opens in Manchuria the highway
 * 1974: 2,000 Teachers establish the Korean Teachers
 * 1974: Income tax reform is passed and in order to solve
 * 1975: Korea surpasses Germany in steel production
 * 1975: February 4; An earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter
 * 1975: There are 8 million registered cars in Korea, 2.5
 * 1975: Line 4 of the Seoul Metro opens with an
 * 1975: Byung-ho buys a color tv set
 * 1975: July 20; Young-soo and Mi-kyung have a daughter
 * 1975: Korean exports surpass $25 Billion, first ever
 * 1975: Korea’s unemployment rate reaches high of 4.2%
 * 1975: Two more reactors come online in Korea’s nuclear
 * 1975: Korea and China begin trading with each other
 * 1975: First subway system in Manchuria opens in Mukden
 * 1975: First Manchurian made car Hongqi Lexor (though it
 * 1975: The amount of foreign aid Manchuria receives
 * 1975: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.96, Manchuria has
 * 1975: Manchuria’s literacy rate has risen over the past
 * 1975: In Korea, 99.1% of households have a television,
 * 1975: Manchurian households start to get television for
 * 1975: The 817 foot tall KLI 63 building is completed in
 * 1975: Universal health care is achieved in Korea after
 * 1975: Samsung begins manufacturing Korea’s first VCRs
 * 1975: Korea joins the G8
 * 1975: The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is
 * 1975: The 45 story, 465 foot tall Koryo Hotel is
 * 1975: The 373 foot tall 33 story Golden Seaview Hotel
 * 1975: Korea’s GDP surpasses $200 Billion
 * 1975: November 30; The KOSPI index surpasses 150 for
 * 1976: Chung creates a rule that presidents can only
 * 1976: The Zeng family buys their first TV set in the
 * 1976: Zeng Guoqing enters the mandatory 3 year military
 * 1976: Manchurian steel production surpasses 5 million
 * 1976: As a result of allowing wages to increase in
 * 1976: Niuzhuang Steel Works goes online with a 2,500,000
 * 1976: Korean government education expenditure is
 * 1976: Hyundai Automotive America is founded with the
 * 1976: Samsung R&D Semiconductor center is
 * 1976: Manchuria and China begin trading with each other
 * 1976: Manchuria’s inflation rate hits a low of 14% down
 * 1976: Wonsan hosts the Winter Olympics, Korea wins 1
 * 1976: With pro-democracy protests the GNP loses another
 * 1976: April 2nd; The KOSPI index surpasses
 * 1976: March 22nd; A subway fire breaks out
 * 1976: Hyundai produces its 10,000,000th car
 * 1976: Korea’s GDP surpasses Italy’s
 * 1976: Manchurian exports surpass $10 Billion
 * 1976: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 70%
 * 1976: April 2nd; After 12 years of
 * 1976: Construction begins on the fifth stage of
 * 1976: Korea’s GDP briefly surpasses the UK
 * 1976: Gimpo International Airport surpasses 10 million
 * 1976: Unemployment in Korea plummets from 4.2% in 1975
 * 1976: Seoul becomes the first city-proper in world
 * 1977: There are now 2,400,000 students in higher
 * 1977: Samsung opens a subsidiary in the United Kingdom
 * 1977: The Mukden Metro begins operations, the first
 * 1977: Sojang (Major General) Kim Du-han the son of Kim
 * 1977: Another five year plan is drafted for Korea to
 * 1977: January 22nd; The KOSPI Index
 * 1977: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses Mexico
 * 1977: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $100-billion
 * 1977: The 394-foot tall 32 story Sunwah Technology
 * 1977: Korean steel production surpasses 50-million tons
 * 1977: Huang Oudong creates a fourth five year plan to
 * 1977: Hongqi manufactures its first jet H102 plane a 89

Dalian in the year 1977 however wages are kept down to keep cheap low-quality export goods competitive this causes massive labor riots, and the ultra-conservative authoritarian regime’s oppression causes massive student protests as well students and workers begin fighting with police and the military, however inflation in Korea falls to 4.4% the lowest rate since 1968 now that inflation has fallen to 4.4% its lowest rate since 1968 to quell the labor stoppages and strikes, real factory wages in Korea increase 20% in 1977, and 25% in 1978 then another 20% in 1979, this increases GDP growth to 11.8% in 1977, as Korea starts to rapidly lose its cheap and light industry and textiles to much cheaper labor in Manchuria, Hong Kong, and Taiwan 500 points for the first time providing 600Mw of power that he will cut all foreign aid and troops to Manchuria if they proceed with their nuclear program, and as a result of Huang’s regime’s response to protestors increases from 286 in 1976 to 3,275 in 1977, nearly 2 million workers strike that year, unions are legalized but very closely watched and any strikes are dealt with militantly manufacturing airplanes for $0.25/hour tons increasing from 7.0 million tons in 1976 to 10.5 million tons in 1977 another 50% increase Striking Workers in Korea demanding increase in wages his father President Kim 25 years earlier over sexually suggestive material, makes school uniforms voluntary income Billion in total trade low $0.37/hour Sung-ho he is born into a much different environment than what his father was born into passengers manufacturer producing 2.5 million (with the Samsung Conglomerate making    $24-Billion in revenues they’re the 9th largest corporation on     Earth) TVs behind Phillips and Matsushita, and LG is the 9th largest producing 1.3 million district of Seoul computer the SPC-1000 it will sell 17,000 units during its first year 1978 $3-billion dollars in foreign aid to Manchuria over the next ten years annually sending $300-million, and Manchuria in return agrees to gradually lighten the ban on Korean and Japanese cultural imports, this will be the catalyst for a series of massive riots over the next year Tower a communications tower and an observatory is completed in Mukden and moves into a 675 sqft 1-bedroom apartment increases to 6.1% in Korea thanks to rapidly increasing income though it    peaks at 6.6 % in March to 6.7% in June to 6.5% from July to September until dropping suddenly to 5.3% by January of 1979 Germany, while Manchuria produces 103,000 cars 79% to 60% and lowers the number of brackets from 16 to 14 with inflation declining from 25.1% in 1974 to 4.4% in 1977 Steel Works is completed steel production capacity is increased to    14,400,000 tons Huang Oudong orders the suppression of pro-democracy riots and the resistance orders out the military to suppress them as a result 1,400 people are killed and 25,000 are arrested and tortured, he then orders even harsher crackdowns to prevent opposition and riots 300,000 protestors across the country many of them family members of those who were arrested demand Huang’s resignation for unlawful arrest of 25,000 protestors and for the massacre of 1,400 innocent protestors, Huang demands that they stop the protests or face the consequences Manchurian Political Protests age 73 when he is assassinated by an assassin who broke into the assembly hall as he was leaving, turns out the assassin was hired by General Li-Guangxu, his son and appointed successor 48-year-old General Huang Jinhui who was supposed to be with him that night was at a local military exercise learns about the news and succeeds in a 17 day power struggle then orders Li-Guangxu killed after learning the news takes over the position as President of Manchuria and has the conspirators rounded up and tortured to death news reports claim that Li-Gunagxu was working for the Chinese in    an conspiracy but this is false he was convinced that Oudong was going power hungry and losing his grip on reality and attempted to stop him, President Huang for 20 years ruled the country as an right-wing ultra-conservative authoritarian dictator with an iron fist who singlehandedly dragged Manchuria into the modern era kicking and screaming and turned an    agrarian, backwards, poor, bankrupt, aid-dependent, war torn, starving, helpless third world mess with a GDP per capita of $72 into an industrial, rising, economic power with a GDP per Capita of  $1,400 as Manchuria’s GDP increased from just $4.4-billion in 1958 to $15.4-billion in 1968 to $138-billion in 1978, and his death marks the beginning of the Fifth Manchurian Republic, Manchuria under his rule went from the 28th Largest economy in    the world in 1958 to the 27th largest in the world in 1965 to     the 20th largest in 1971 to the 12th largest in 1978, Manchurian exports increase from $21-million in 1958 to $121-million in    1963 to $894-million in 1968 to $5.3-billion in 1973 to $16.7-billion in     1978 his funeral which was held on November 25th was attended by 2 million mourners; while he was a very authoritarian dictator he did give Manchuria much needed self-confidence, a large modern industrial base, rural and urban modernizations, and an economic miracle Olympics after coming in second to Seoul in their bid for the 1980 Olympic Games Funeral of Huang Oudong
 * 1977: Inflation in Manchuria rises to 21% in Manchuria
 * 1977: Chung Il-kwon finally agrees to workers pay rises
 * 1977: October 17th; The KOSPI index surpasses
 * 1977: Manchuria’s first nuclear power plant goes online
 * 1977: President Jimmy Carter threatens Huang Oudong
 * 1977: Workers strike nationwide the number of stoppages
 * 1977: Zeng Guoqing gets a job in an Hongqi factory
 * 1977: Manchurian steel production surpasses 10,000,000
 * 1978: Kim Du-han lightens the censorships emplaced by
 * 1978: Korean’s households save 25.2% of their personal
 * 1978: Korean exports surpass $50 Billion, reaches $100
 * 1978: Kim Du-han introduces minimum wage set at a very
 * 1978: Korea’s GDP surpasses $300-billion
 * 1978: April 18; Young-soo and Mi-kyung have a son named
 * 1978: Taoxian Airport in Mukden surpasses 2 million
 * 1978: Samsung is the world’s third largest color TV
 * 1978: Manchuria’s unemployment rate is 2.8%
 * 1978: The first Lotte Mart opens in Gwangjin-gu
 * 1978: National Employment Insurance system implemented
 * 1978: Samsung begins manufacturing Korea’s first PC
 * 1978: Samsung develops 16K DRAM
 * 1978: Korea’s auto production surpasses 4,000,000 units
 * 1978: Samsung opens a subsidiary in Mexico
 * 1978: June 12th; Kim Du-han, agrees to send
 * 1978: The 1,002 foot tall Liaoning Broadcast and TV
 * 1978: Young-soo buys his first car a 1978 Hyundai Excel
 * 1978: Inflation hits a high of 27.1% in Manchuria and
 * 1978: Korea produces 4-million cars, surpassing West
 * 1978: Kim Du-han lowers the top income tax rate from
 * 1978: The fourth stage of construction of Gwangyang
 * 1978: September 30th – October 10th;
 * 1978: October 10th – November 18th:
 * 1978: November 18 – December 5; Huang Oudong dies at
 * 1978: Moscow is elected to host the 1984 Summer

Petrochemical Plant in 1978 surpasses 750 points for the first time air travel surpasses 50 million to factory manager as a result he goes from making $3.30/hour to $4.25 an    hour as a result first color TV broadcasts are made slows from 10.6% in 1978 to 8.9% in 1979, and rapidly increases in Korea from 6.1% in 1978 to 11.5% in 1979 as their GDP growth shrinks from 12.4% in 1978 to 7.7% in 1979 thanks to the 1979 Oil Crisis over the calendar year Korea’s inflation rate increases from 5.3% in January, 1979 to 6.7% in March to 14.6% in September to 17.5% in December 1,000 points for the first time Airport as it becomes clear that Gimpo is reaching a critical limit with air traffic, as a result of increase in air traffic after the 1976 Winter Olympics arrest of another 150,000 protestors and massacre of 4,000 in Dalian Huang Jinhui realizes that there is no way around suppressing the people without condemnation from abroad and gives into the demands of the protests, greatly reduces censorships, ends mandatory school uniforms, and restores freedom of speech, some freedom of the press, and almost full freedom of assembly economic reforms for Manchuria to ease the growing inflation problem as    inflation is now reaching 30% Giant a 1,500-ft ship capable of carrying up to 400,000 tons of oil to privatize state-run gas, financial firms; demand reduction in workweek from 48 hours to 42 hours rail opens connecting Pyongyang to Seoul, achieving a top speed of 171mph, the line connecting Seoul to Taegu to Pusan will not be completed until 1985 Samsung HCR-2000 VCR the world’s most advanced VCR in 1979
 * 1978: November 5th; The KOSPI index
 * 1979: Korea and China agree to do trade together
 * 1979: The UK surpasses Korea again
 * 1979: Gimpo Airport surpasses 20 million people, Korean
 * 1979: 64K DRAM successfully developed by Samsung
 * 1979: Byung-hoo gets promoted from factory supervisor
 * 1979: Manchuria lifts its ban on color television,
 * 1979: Inflation rises to 30% in Manchuria as GDP Growth
 * 1979: March 17th; the KOSPI index surpasses
 * 1979: Construction begins on Incheon International
 * 1979: July 2nd; Immediatley following the
 * 1979: Huang Jinhui begins a series of neoliberal
 * 1979: Hyundai gets contracted to build the Seawise
 * 1979: Thousands of workers protest on government plans
 * 1979: October 18th; Korea’s first high speed

Korean electronics factory in 1979 a rate 2.83 living in Seoul, 3,830,000 living in Busan, 3,762,000 living in Pyongyang, 3,123,000 living in Incheon, and 2,675,000 living in Tageu, with 1,077,000 live in America, and 1,878,000 in the USSR living in Mukden, 4,467,000 living in Harbin, 6,198,000 living in    Changchun-Fu, and 2,955,000 living in Qinginwa 2,071,000 living in Haikou; 596,000 living in Sanya, and 563,000 living in    Danzhou is $518.4 Billion, China’s is $186.3 Billion and Manchuria’s GDP is $165.4 Billion, $25.4-Billion for Hainan, China will aveage 9.5% GDP growth, while Manchuria will average 8.5% GDP growth, Korea will average 5.6% GDP growth over the 1980s, while Japan will average 4.2%, GDP per capita are $9,309 for Japan, and $6,642 for Korea, $3,409 for Hainan, $1,705 for Manchuria, and $199 for China, Korea donates $100-Million in foreign aid, and Manchuria receives $250-Million in foreign aid $19.8-billion 3.8% of the GDP and Manchurian government defense spending is $10.6-billion 6% of the GDP as a result of the cold war and the state of war that Korea and Manchuria have with China years in Hainan, 71.3 years in Korea, 65.8 years in Manchuria, and 67.0 years in China 93.2% have a refrigerator, 73.2% have a washing machine, and 85.5% have a    telephone while in Manchuria 81.4% of households have a television, 35.8% have a refrigerator, 12.0% have a washing machine, and 23.7% have a    telephone a rate of 80%, Hainan has a rate of 67%, Manchuria has a rate of 53%, and China has a rate of 19% Expenditures 2,571,000 visit Hainan the average Korean workers wage and 1.4 times the average Japanese workers wage birthday living with her 65 year old son and their family industry in the world behind Mexico, USSR, Japan, and the US    Korean economy but thanks to careful planning it is almost unfelt in all areas of the Korean economy except growth and inflation, but Korea and Japan thanks to emphasis on consumer electronics, increasing quality, productivity, and efficiency are the only two industrial nations to avoid entering a recession in the years 1980-82 a fivefold increase during the 1970s, however there are still only 1,000,000 registered cars in Manchuria, there are also 600,000 cars in Hainan the Democratic Party picks up 36 seats thanks to a split in the liberal parties where they now have 161 seats and the GNP maintains a very small majority in the legislature Korea it increases to a high of 19.3%, GDP Growth declines to 3.5% in    Korea and down to -1.8% in Manchuria inflation peaks in Korea in April at     23.2% then in May at 23.1% before falling to 20.6% in June then 16.9% in     September and 15% in December 11.05 million, US produces 8.2 million cars, and Manchuria produces 125,000, Manchuria produces 18.5 million tons of steel, while Korea produces 68.5 million tons; Hainan produces 2.5 million tons successfully, the Games are opened by Emperor Wujong, Korea wins 17 Gold Medals the 4th highest, behind East Germany’s 37 Gold Medals, America’s 39 Gold Medals, and Soviet Union’s 55 Gold Medals 0.323 in 1980 as a result of massive labor movements, rising wages and inflation, in Manchuria the Gini Index declines but very slowly to 0.397
 * 1980: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.64, Manchuria has
 * 1980: Korea has a population of 78,000,000, with 10,256,000
 * 1980: Manchuria has a population of 97,000,000 with 8,413,000
 * 1980: Hainan has a population of 7,800,000 with
 * 1980: Japan’s GDP is $1.071 Trillion, while Korea’s GDP
 * 1980: The Korean government defense spending is
 * 1980: Life expectancy is 76.1 years in Japan, 73.7
 * 1980: 99.7% of Korean households have a television,
 * 1980: Korea has an urbanization rate of 76%, Japan has
 * 1980: The literacy rate in Manchuria is now 87.6%
 * 1980: Korea now spends 4.25% of its GDP on Social
 * 1980: 2,959,000 tourists visit Korea; 1,936,000 visit Manchuria,
 * 1980: The average American workers wage is 2.0 times
 * 1980: June 2; So-young dies a month before her 90th
 * 1980: Korea has the fifth largest consumer electronics
 * 1980: The second oil shock takes an effect on the
 * 1980: There are now 15,000,000 registered cars in Korea
 * 1980: 22.9% of Koreans live in apartments
 * 1980: The GNP loses 55 seats down to 164 seats where
 * 1980: Inflation in Manchuria hits a high of 36% and in
 * 1980: Korea produces its 1,000,000th VCR
 * 1980: Korea produces 4.1 million cars, Japan produces
 * 1980: Seoul hosts the Olympics, the games go very
 * 1980: Korea’s Gini index declines from 0.357 in 1976 to

Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Seoul Olympics

Lighting of the Cauldron after just surpassing them in 1976 until Britain surpassed Korea in 1979 strait from Haikou is designated one of the six special economic zones the county has a population of 350,000 people living in an area of 700-square miles peaks at 5.1% IT and software corporation as the new president/dictator of Manchuria wants to develop Manchuria’s high-tech industry jet plane Korea it drops to 10.2% Harbin to host the 1988 Winter Olympics defeating Calgary in the fourth round 41 votes to Calgary’s 38 his wages increase from $3.15/hour to $4.65/hour as a result Party GNP and Kim Du-han secretly pass a law limiting labor power, and making it easier for companies to fire workers, this causes massive uproar as the FKTU military lead union has even had enough by this point and on    this date the FKTU had 1,500,000 workers go on strike mainly in industrial sectors making this the country’s first strike since 1951 this strike would last for a month this causes 28 GNP Representatives to retire giving emergency elections giving the Democratic Party a 35 seat majority the party’s first majority since 1948 meaning that the Conservative Junta Democracy is now over Olympics, and Los Angeles is elected to host the 1988 Summer Olympics the only other city bidding that year was Nagoya, Japan, after coming in third in their 1980 bid, and second in their bid for 1984 256K DRAM from Samsung time while Manchuria increases to $211.0-Billion China’s GDP only increases to $202.1-Billion largest in the world at this point, behind West Germany, USSR, Japan, and the US    due to rigging and fraud the leader of the liberal opposition Kim Dae-jung is elected president with 48.7% of the vote the first Democratic Party candidate to win an election since Kim Gu in 1947 despite a three way race with a split liberal vote, voter turnout is 89.2%, calling the administrations of the past 30 years a “military junta in disguise”, ironically the election of liberals replacing conservatives at the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s transforms Korean political leadership from the most conservative in the non-communist industrial world during the 1970s to one of the most liberal during the 1980s one to focus on technology, efficiency, and export oriented industries shifting economic focus away from natural resources to more technology/export oriented and continue neoliberal reforms GDP growth for this plan will average 9.5% tons and 165 other workplaces for better working conditions since 1978 and in Manchuria it drops to 4.8% the lowest rate Manchuria has seen since 1961 with monthly inflation in Korea falling from 14.9% in    January to 7% in December of 512 points from 1,021 in early-1979 released from the 1978 protests after coming under heavy fire from the United Nations drafted the plan this time is to develop high-technology, microelectronics, biotechnology, fiber optics, and aerospace and to    develop industry in 10 key Korean cities to better balance the geographic distribution of industry in Korea, GDP growth for this plan will average 7.0% Samsung US advertising campaign for computers DRAM 1.8% in 1983 the lowest rate the nation has ever seen thanks to neoliberal reforms into the Pacific when shot down by Soviet rockets causing the deaths of    all 297 on board Spain Hard Drives computer components begins its first computer MA-100, and its first CPU a 4 MHz processor as well as a 64Kb Hard Drive increases to $236.1-Billlion while Manchuria’s GDP increases to    $233.9-Billion reforms constitution, calling for honest elections, ending bribery, and an    end to the Authoritarian Guided Democracy of the previous 30 years, saying all elections must not be counted by the same people who rigged them in    their favor in the first place as well as ending compulsory voting Manchuria to begin something of relations with them to help increase trade between the two nations after noticing Manchuria’s booming economy of the 1970s, mutual talks between the nations begins for the first time since 1949    to send annual aid to China of $150,000,000 over the years 1984-89 maternity leave for up to 90 days at 100% of salary and paid paternity leave for up to a year at 40% of salary chaeobls saying that they no longer need the loans considering they have grown to become some of the largest corporations in the world outside of    US, Japan, UK, France, and Germany reserves system as the country only has $25-billion in foreign exchange reserves this number will surpass $100-billion by 1986 15-days paid leave wage from $0.53/hour to $1.25/hour or from 390-won to 970-won and agrees to return every stolen artifact during the colonial years to    Manchuria apologizes for the colonial atrocities and agrees to pay reparations for all the victims of colonialism to compensate for victims of colonial rule and even kneels in front of a monument to the April 20th Movement (a move very heavily influenced by the Warschauer Kinefall in    1970) this officially ends the ban of Korean cultural imports in Manchuria as a result of smog problems in the cities, and reports of polluted water in industrial areas operation Hainan are offered with presidential elections taking place every 3 years and Presidents being allowed only 2 terms and will be so from 1983-87, 1991-97, 2001-2003 KTU, ends discrimination in school based on background, race, religion, political beliefs, etc 21 months  in the Army, 23 in the Navy and 24 in the Air Force to 12 Army, 15 Navy, and 18 Air Force manufacturer high for the first time surpassing Magnitogorsk producing 16.4 million tons of steel relations from the United States, fully abandons its nuclear program Culture, to help develop the nations media, and cinema sectors, reinstating Kim Gu’s cultural promotion policies after the pop-culture and film suppression of the Kim Chwa-chin and Park Chung-hee years, after the films Raiders of the lost Ark, E.T, and Star War Episode VI surpass all domestic films in ticket sales traveling by airplane time Mukden Gwangyang Steel Works the world’s largest steel works 2.0% in 1985 its lowest rate since 1962 dropping from 3.3% in January to a    low of 1.2% in July before soaring to 2% by December imports and apologizes for the treatment of Japanese POWs in the war saying that they stooped almost as low as the Japanese did in their barbarianism during the war along with a 16 MHz processor million cars are produced in Korea that year, 263,000 are produced in    Manchuria and there are 2 million registered cars in Manchuria a rate of 1.67 design and cheap construction methods in Seoul there are 569 casualties long ignored Human Rights Law which will create the National Human Rights Commission to protect human rights and educate the public about them starting with a 200 seat jet airliner/cargo plane it has a range of    5,700-miles brings 35 million visitors hours and 40 minutes at a top speed of 186mph tall is completed the 555 foot tall 45 story Northeast Electric Center finally ending a 20 year long martial law, he greatly lightens censorships bedroom apartment new style of music incorporating rap, rock, and techno thus the origins of    modern K-pop corporations and eliminates most of them as a result of corporate dominance 1985 World Universiale Exposition
 * 1981: Korea’s GDP permanently surpasses Britain’s,
 * 1981: The Zeng family buys their first refrigerator
 * 1981: Manchurian exports surpass $20 Billion
 * 1981: Xuwen County in Mainland China right across the
 * 1981: Thanks to a recession unemployment in Manchuria
 * 1981: Neusoft is founded in Mukden as Manchuria’s first
 * 1981: Construction begins on Qingwa High Tech Zone QHZ
 * 1981: Samsung successfully develops 256K DRAM
 * 1981: Honqi celebrates building its 100th
 * 1981: Gimpo Airport surpasses 25 million passengers
 * 1981: Inflation in Manchuria drops to 16.4% and in
 * 1981: September 30th; The IOC votes for
 * 1981: Young-soo gets promoted into a corner office and
 * 1981: December 26th; The Grand National
 * 1981: Harbin is selected to host the 1988 Winter
 * 1982: Manchuria’s GDP overtakes China for the second
 * 1982: Korea’s GDP surpasses France’s to become the 5th
 * 1982: After two failed attempts in 1972 and 1977 mainly
 * 1982: Huang Jinhui orders a fifth five year plan this
 * 1982: Manchurian steel production surpasses 20 million
 * 1982: Over 120,000 auto workers strike against Hyundai
 * 1982: Inflation in Korea drops to 6.3% its lowest rate
 * 1982: July 15th; The KOSPI index hits a low
 * 1982: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $200-billion
 * 1982: January 5th; Huang Jinhui orders the prisoners
 * 1982: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses India and Spain
 * 1982: The last and final five year plan for Korea is
 * 1983: Samsung successfully develops the world’s first 1M
 * 1983: Inflation in Manchuria drops from 4.8% in 1982 to
 * 1983: Korean trade surpasses $200 Billion
 * 1983: Korean Air flight 007 in a Boeing-747 crashes
 * 1983: Korean steel production surpasses 70-million tons
 * 1983: Kangxi Electronics builds its first subsidiary in
 * 1983: Kangxi Electronics begins production of CPUs and
 * 1983: China’s GDP overtakes Manchuria as China’s GDP
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung, begins an anti-corruption campaign,
 * 1983: Deng Xiaoping sends a group of diplomats to
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung meets with Deng Xiaoping and agrees
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung passes a law guaranteeing paid
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung dramatically lowers loans to
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung reforms the foreign exchange
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung passes a law guaranteeing minimum
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung passes a massive increase in minimum
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung meets with Huang Jinhui in Mukden
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung enacts environmental protection laws
 * 1983: E-Mart Korea’s first discount store chain begins
 * 1983: After years of protests the first elections in
 * 1983: Busan becomes the world’s busiest container port,
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung reforms education legalizing the
 * 1983: Kim Dae-jung, lowers compulsory conscription from
 * 1983: Samsung becomes the world’s largest Memory Chip
 * 1983: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses China
 * 1984: Korea produces 4.6 million cars
 * 1984: September 11; The KOSPI index surpasses its 1979
 * 1984: Gwangyang becomes the world’s largest steel mill
 * 1984: Manchuria under threats and deteriorating
 * 1984: Kim Dae-jung re-establishes the Ministry of
 * 1984: Park family goes on vacation to Jeju Island
 * 1984: Korea’s GDP surpasses West Germany, for the first
 * 1984: Gimpo Airport surpasses 30 million passengers
 * 1984: March 19; Zeng Guoqing has a daughter
 * 1984: Manchuria gets its first McDonalds restaurant in
 * 1985: Inflation in Korea plummets from 5.9% in 1984 to
 * 1985: Kim Dae-jung ends the ban on Japanese cultural
 * 1985: Kangxi Electroincs develops a 256Kb Hard Drive,
 * 1985: There are 21 million registered cars in Korea, 4.7
 * 1985: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.82, Manchuria has
 * 1985: Young-soo now makes $7/hour
 * 1985: LG acquires Zenith
 * 1985: Department store collapses due to poor structural
 * 1985: Kim Dae-jung passes former President’s Kim Gu’s
 * 1985: Hongqi produces the H200 airplane a new series
 * 1985: Korea hosts the World Expo 85’ at Taejon’ the Expo
 * 1985: The travel time from Seoul to Pusan is now 2
 * 1985: Samsung develops 4M DRAM
 * 1985: The first building in Manchuria over 500 feet
 * 1985: Huang Jinhui lifts martial law in Manchuria
 * 1985: Zeng Guoqing moves into a 550 square foot 1
 * 1985: The band Seo Taiji and Boys begin a revolutionary
 * 1985: Kim Dae-jung greatly reduces loans to large

Collapse of the Sampoong Department Store

H200 Airplane 1,500 points since 1933 tons almost gone the first Korean domestic film to sell 10,000,000+ admissions tickets is made “Friend” it sells 13,500,000 admissions outdoing every other film at the box office that year making $29.5-million increase from $1.30/hour to $2.15/hour or from 1,135-won to 1,900-won as Manchuria’s economy increases to $308.7-Billion while China’s only increases to $295.7-Billion States trade surpasses $100 Billion the 3rd Largest in the world Tower is completed in Dalian Act, integrating all existing Insurance societies into the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) decides to give China five years of foreign aid of $150,000,000 in 1987 and $500,000,000 annually in 1988-91 Opening Ceremony of the 1986 Asian Games protection for part-time workers 1 bedroom apartment into a 1100 sqft 3 bedroom apartment so now both his children have their own bedroom, he also buys a VCR authoritarian and stubborn than his iron-fisted ultra-conservative father resigns his post as a result of massive protests, and forced to resign by the UN    for human violations in death of over pro-democracy protestors, handpicked successor General Li-Changchun succeeds him, Li-Changchun immediately proclaims a return of freedom of speech, basic human rights, and free elections with a presidential election to be held in 1988 the start of the Sixth Manchurian Republic tons emphasis away from raw minerals and chemical intensive industries following commodity price collapse and stagnation to emphasis towards technology-intensive industries GDP-growth for this plan will average 8.6%, now that Manchuria is starting to rapidly lose its light industry and textiles to cheap labor in Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines, Malaysia, and especially China which had just opened up to the world barely a decade ago manufacturing plant in Montgomery, Alabama becoming the fourth automaker in the World after Volkswagen in 1979, Toyota in 1984, and Honda in 1986 to build a manufacturing plant in the US    TV manufacturer in the world producing 10.6 million TVs the vote in a four way race, voter turnout is 81.9% 0.286 in 1987 and Manchuria’s Gini Index declines to 0.358 during that same time as well thanks to labor riots $0.40/hour Tower is completed in Dalian Jet Plane burning 10,000 square kilometers and leaving at least 50,000 people homeless Mass Pro-Democracy Protests in Manchuria China from $500,000,000 from 1983-87 to $1,000,000,000 during 1988-92 points Hongqi Jiaxing sedan a cheap 4 door compact sedan with a sticker price of    $4,795 compared to other cars such as $5,395 for a Hyundai Accent (subcompact), $6,195 Honda Civic (subcompact), $6,450 Nissan Sentra (subcompact), $6,700 for a Hyundai Elantra (compact), Ford Escort $6,895 (compact), while the car is well received at first selling 123,000 units in America in 1988 quality problems soon become very apparent leading Hongqi to become the butt of bad car jokes and a 4 Mb Hard Drive Trade Center building is completed City of Haikou in the year 1988
 * 1986: April 12th; The KOSPI index surpasses
 * 1986: Inflation hits a low of 1.4% the lowest rate
 * 1986: Manchurian steel production surpasses 30-million
 * 1986: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $300-billion
 * 1986: Incheon International Airport is opened
 * 1986: With government restrictions and censorships
 * 1986: April 20; Zeng Guoqing has a son Zeng Hanzhang
 * 1986: Kim Dae-jung orders another massive minimum wage
 * 1986: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses Brazil
 * 1986: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses China’s for the second time
 * 1986: Korea’s steel production surpasses the United
 * 1986: Mukden hosts the 1986 Asian Games
 * 1986: Manchurian exports surpass $50-Billion, total
 * 1986: Korea’s GDP surpasses the Soviet Union becomes
 * 1986: The 505 foot tall 32 story Dalian Communications
 * 1986: Korea’s urbanization rate surpasses 80%
 * 1986: Kim Dae-jung passes the Unified Health Insurance
 * 1986: Deng Xiaoping meets with Kim Dae-jung and Korea
 * 1987: Korea joins the $1-Trillion GDP club
 * 1987: 60,000 workers go on strike demanding better
 * 1987: Young-soo and his family move from their 675 sqft
 * 1987: July 10th; Huang Jinhui much less
 * 1987: Korea’s steel production surpasses 80-million
 * 1987: Li-Changchun creates a five year plan to shift
 * 1987: Hyundai begins operation of a $700,000,000
 * 1987: Samsung overtakes Phillips to become the largest
 * 1987: Kim Young-sam is elected president with 42.1% of
 * 1987: Korea’s Gini index declines from 0.323 in 1980 to
 * 1987: Manchuria introduces the minimum wage set at
 * 1987: The 557 foot tall 35 story Tianlun Communication
 * 1987: Hongqi celebrates the manufacturing of its 750th
 * 1987: Wildfire breaks out in east-Central Manchuria
 * 1987: Germany’s GDP takes over Korea’s again
 * 1987: Kim Dae-jung agrees to increase annual aid to
 * 1987: October 12; The KOSPI index surpasses 2,000
 * 1987: Samsung develops the world’s first 16M DRAM
 * 1987: Hongqi sells its first car in America the 1988
 * 1987: Kangxi Electronics develops a 64 MHz Processor,
 * 1987: The 649 foot tall 49 floor Hainan International

The Hyundai Montgomery Plant first democratic election is held in Manchuria for the first time since 1948 he wins 38.2% of the vote in a four way race where he is the only conservative as a member of the newly formed right-wing Democratic-Republican Party (the successor to the right-wing to far-right National    Republican Party) candidate in the election voter turnout is 87% birthday buys the family a video game system a Sega Master System 15,000,000 admissions is released “Silmido” it sells 18,370,000-admissions making $50,300,000 at the box office Manchuria a firm high-tech industry tons Plane in a giant celebration Expenditures Olympics are used to display how far the nation had come since the Sino-Manchurian War and especially over the last 30 years from the aid-dependent, starving, broke, agrarian, backwater Incheon serving 14 million passengers and Gimpo Airport serving 29 million, the airport was very critically dangerously overcrowded, Gimhae Airport in Busan and Jeju Airport both 10 million passengers as Korean air travel surpasses 100 million passengers Japan killing all 297 on board wages increase from $10.25/hour to $13/hour Colonial Government Building in Mukden to be demolished and the Mukden Palace to be fully reconstructed by 2000 Seoul city lights 1989 Trillion and Manchuria’s GDP is $687.6 billion, and $386.9 billion for China, and $99.2-Billion for Hainan, China will average a 10.0% Growth rate, while Manchuria will average a 6.4% GDP growth rate, Hainan will average 5.5%, Korea will average a 3.7% GDP growth rate over the 1990s, Japan will average 1.4% GDP growth, GDP per capita are $25,144 for Japan, $18,550 for Korea, $11,024 for Hainan, $6,308 for Manchuria, and $368 for China; Korea donates about $1.5-billion in foreign aid, while Manchuria receives about $80-million in foreign aid living in Seoul, 3,849,000 living in Pusan, 4,021,000 living in Pyongyang, 3,359,000 living in Incheon, and 2,719,000 living in Tageu, with 1,424,000 in America, and 2,053,000 in the USSR collaboration between Choe Young-rim, Kim Ki-nam, and Choe Tae-bok to end three-way race losses the United States of the average Manchurian workers, 1.3 times that of the average Korean workers, and 0.9 times that of the average Japanese workers a rate of 86%, Hainan has a rate of 82%, Manchuria has a rate of 67%, and China has an urbanization rate of 26% Olympics narrowly defeating Atlanta in Round 5 of the voting winning 43 votes to Atlanta’s 39 votes living in Mukden, 5,991,000 living in Harbin, 3,472,000 living in Qinginwa, and 7,692,000 living in Changchun-Fu 2,506,000 living in Haikou; 1,027,000 living in Sanya, and 951,000 living in Danzhou years in Hainan, 75.9 years in Korea, 71.3 years in Manchuria, and 69.5 years in China Manchuria, and 5,323,000 visit Hainan is built the Qinginwa World Trade Center at 793 feet tall, and 61 stories produces 1.3 million cars (with about 80% of them made in Changchun-Fu), Korea produces 95.2 million tons of steel, while Manchuria produces 50.1 million tons and Hainan produces 7.1 million tons a rate of 1.59 passnegers income tax rate from 60% to 40% and decreases the number of tax brackets from 14 to 4 industry in the world behind the US, and Japan, and Manchuria has the world’s seventh largest consumer electronics industry and 6 million registered cars in Manchuria, a six fold increase in    Manchuria as people finally start buying cars, and 2,000,000 cars in     Hainan Seoul in the year 1990 nation speed rail line first in the world, and its first 256 Mb Hard Drive at a cost of $3499 Taiwan, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are nicknamed the Tiger Economies of Asia “Five Asian Tigers” Korea decides to renew the 5 year foreign aid deal, doubling foreign aid again to $1,000,000,000 annually in 1992-97 to become China’s largest foreign aid donor. third largest television producer after 35 years of loyal service saying the changes and pace of technology are becoming too rapid for him the vote, voter turnout is 79.0% 2 million pay from $3.25/hour to $7.50/hour election in Manchuria, leader of the resistance for 20 years wins election defeating Li-Changchun in a three way race with 42.8% of the vote where voter turnout is 81% develop high-technology fields and to catch up technologically with the west, and surpass them GDP growth for this plan will average 8.2% 3,000 points agrees to start working to a replacement of the Cease-Fire of 1953 The skyline of Haikou in the year 1992
 * 1988: Li Changchun is elected president of Manchuria
 * 1988: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses Canada’s GDP
 * 1988: Park Young-soo on his son’s 10th
 * 1988: The first Korean film to sell more than
 * 1988: Dalian Software Park is created to help give
 * 1988: Manchurian steel production surpasses 40-million
 * 1988: Korea becomes the world’s largest shipbuilder
 * 1988: Unemployment in Manchuria hits a low of 2.6%
 * 1988: Hongqi celebrates its 1,000th Jet
 * 1988: Korea spends 10.9% of its GDP on Social
 * 1988: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $500-billion
 * 1988: Harbin hosts the 1988 Winter Olympics the Winter
 * 1988: Kangxi develops its first 16 Mb Hard Drive
 * 1988: Seoul Airports surpass 40 million passengers with
 * 1989: Manchu Air flight 133 crashes into the Sea of
 * 1989: Japan and Korea produce 90% of the world’s ships
 * 1989: Young-soo gets promoted to office manager and his
 * 1989: The Manchurian Government orders the Korean
 * 1990: Japan’s GDP is $3.058 Trillion, Korea’s GDP is $1.503
 * 1990: Korea has a population of 81,000,000 with 10,544,000
 * 1990: The Democratic United Party is created as a
 * 1990: Hyundai now sells 500,000 vehicles annually in
 * 1990: The average American workers wage is 5 times that
 * 1990: Korea has an urbanization rate of 84.2%, Japan has
 * 1990: Mukden is selected to host the 1996 Summer
 * 1990: Manchuria has a population of 109,000,000 with 10,165,000
 * 1990: Hainan has a population of 9,000,000 with
 * 1990: Life expectancy is 78.8 years in Japan, 76.6
 * 1990: 5,322,000 tourists visit Korea, 4,958,000 visit
 * 1990: The first building in Manchuria over 750 feet tall
 * 1990: Korea produces 5.5 million cars, while Manchuria
 * 1990: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.59, Manchuria has
 * 1990: Samsung develops the world’s first 64M DRAM
 * 1990: Mukden Taoxian Airport surpasses 25 million
 * 1990: Kim Young-sam passes tax reform lowering the top
 * 1990: Korea has the third largest consumer electronics
 * 1990: There are 31.5 million registered cars in Korea,
 * 1990: Korean exports surpass $200 Billion
 * 1990: Kangxi develops its first 64Mb Hard Drive
 * 1991: China officially recognizes Manchuria as its own
 * 1991: Construction begins on Manchuria’s first high
 * 1991: Kangxi develops its first 256 MHz processor the
 * 1991: The Zeng family buys their first VCR
 * 1991: As a result of rapid economic growth Manchuria,
 * 1991: Yang Shangkun meets with Kim Young-sam again and
 * 1991: LG overtakes Panasonic to become the world’s
 * 1991: July 6th; Byung-ho retires from LG
 * 1992: Choe Young-rim is elected President with 52.0% of
 * 1992: Korea produces 6 million cars, Manchuria produces
 * 1992: Zeng Guoqing gets an office job increasing his
 * 1992: Wen Shizen the first liberal candidate to win
 * 1992: Manchuria creates another five year plan to
 * 1992: October 3rd; The KOSPI Index surpasses
 * 1992: China begins Peace Talks with Manchuria and

Dalian in the year 1992 a Kangxi Super GamBoy (Super Nintendo) cultural import ban university majoring in business between Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan to form a large trade bloc time to 4 months in the Army, 8 months in the Navy, and 1 year in the Air Force Gb Hard Drive at a cost of $2999 jet plane seat airliner with a 7,500-mile range Jixiang completed in Seoul 4,000 points fourth in the event, followed by third place Sweden, second place Italy, and Brazil’s fourth title the opening and closing ceremonies took place in    Pyongyang story office center building with cut corners during a heat wave overloaded electrical circuits causes fires to break out all over the building causing it to go up in flames in 45 minutes then less than an    hour after that the building collapses as a result of poor engineering and cheap construction killing 407 of the 1,589 people inside this is caused lack of safety concerns in the building as a result of Manchuria’s building boom two months after a gas explosion in an underground shopping mall in Dalian kills 102 and two years after a subway explosion caused by    construction hitting a gas line in Shenyang kills 142 tons Young-rim raises the minimum wage from $2.75 to $3.60 from 2,200-won to    2,800-won Celebrating the World Cup, 1994
 * 1993: Samsung develops the world’s first 256M DRAM
 * 1993: Manchu-pop is created as a music genre
 * 1993: Zeng Guoqing buys their children a gaming system
 * 1993: Eun-jung graduates high school and enrolls in
 * 1993: EAFTA (East Asian Free Trade Agreement) Is formed
 * 1993: Choe Young-rim reduces compulsory conscription
 * 1993: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first 1
 * 1993: Hongqi celebrates the building of its 2,000th
 * 1993: First flight takes off of the H205 plane a 325
 * 1994: The Zeng family buys their first car a Hongqi
 * 1994: The 73 story 866 foot tall Samsung Place Tower is
 * 1994: March 2nd; The KOSPI index surpasses
 * 1994: Korea hosts the FIFA World Cup Korea will place
 * 1994: July 12th; Pinhxin Building fire a 26
 * 1994: Korea’s steel production surpasses 100-million
 * 1994: Effective on January 1st Choe

H205 Airplane debut million, and there are 16 million registered cars in Manchuria to $4.15 from 2,800 won to 3,200 won 1,405 foot tall tower a rate of 1.65 with Incheon serving 33.4 million and Gimpo serving 17.6 million economy has grown from the 27th in 1965 to 19th largest in 1970 to 17th place in 1975 to 13th place in 1978 the year of Huang’s assassination to slip to 15th place in 1980 then climb back to 10th in 1985 to 8th in    1990 to the 6th largest economy in the world in 1995 this is     thanks to the Huang’s Dictatorship however, a darker unintended affect from his dictatorship a credit and low-interest easy loan bubble to large corporations continues to build and non-performing loans speed railway opens connecting Mukden to Qinginiwa at a top speed of    202mph; though the connections to Changchun-fu and Harbin won’t be     completed until 2002 Memory bedroom apartment Gb Hard Drive at a cost of $2499 $4.55 from 3,200 won to 3,700 won briefly surpassing America’s $4.25 minimum wage rate until October 1st meaning that in just 18 years Korea has gone from no minimum wage at all to initiating a minimum wage equivalent to 14% of the US rate at the time to now actually surpassing the United States 21,500,000-admissions making $80.6-million at the box office a record that will stand for eight years into 1 year mandatory conscription service Manchuria wins 10 Gold Medals placing 7th in the Olympics the games are opened by Wen Shizen the Olympics show how far the Manchurians have come in the past 40 years Zemin agreeing to continue foreign aid to China of $2,000,000,000 annually from 1997-99 then to $1,500,000,000 a year in 2000-01 then to    $1,000,000,000 in 2002 Hard Drive manufacturer with 48% of the vote where voter turnout is 76% for the next 10 years at 4,753.51 first digital-tv and the world’s first flat screen tvs Hard Drive at a cost of $1499 MP3 Player in the world Manchurians are internet users both numbers are rising very rapidly
 * 1995: The number of registered cars in Korea reaches 40
 * 1995: Korea builds 2/3 of the World’s ships
 * 1995: Choe Young-rim raises the minimum wage from $3.60
 * 1995: 52.5% of Koreans live in Apartments
 * 1995: Construction begins on Haikou tower an 94 story
 * 1995: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.60, Manchuria has
 * 1995: Seoul’s airports surpass 50-million passengers
 * 1995: In just the past three decades Manchuria’s
 * 1995: November 2nd; Manchuria’s first high
 * 1995: Samsung Ranks 1st in the world in NAND
 * 1995: Zeng Guoqing moves into a 900 square foot 2
 * 1995: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first 2
 * 1995: Samsung develops the world’s first 1G DRAM
 * 1996: Korea’s GDP surpasses Germany’s GDP
 * 1996: Korea’s minimum wage increases from $4.15 to
 * 1996: Korea joins the $2-Trillion GDP club
 * 1996: “King and the Clown” is released selling
 * 1996: Sung-ho graduates from High School and is forced
 * 1996: Mukden hosts the 1996 Summer Olympics where
 * 1996: Choe Young-rim meets with Chinese President Jiang
 * 1996: Kangxi Electronics becomes the world’s largest
 * 1996: Wen Shizen is re-elected President of Manchuria
 * 1996: April 27; The KOSPI index hits its all-time high
 * 1996: Samsung begins mass production of the world’s
 * 1996: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first 4Gb
 * 1996: Korea develops the first commercially successful
 * 1996: 6.8% of Koreans are internet users and 1.6% of

The newly built Mukden Olympic Stadium opening ceremony the popular vote, voter turnout is 80.6% Manchurians use it    the country imports $271-billion University where he majors in engineering and Manchuria’s hits an all-time low of 0.309 largest corporation earning $157.5-Billion second only to General Motors which earned $168.4-billion in revenue the third largest is Hyundai which has earned $124.9-billion in revenue Young-soo is now making $20/hour thanks to hard work and the economic miracle AA in August to A+ in early-December, to A- in late-December, Manchuria’s credit rating is downgraded from A+ to BB+ during that same time as well high in Korea at 105.8-million tons, that same year China surpasses Korea in steel production economy which had been growing at an average rate of over 9% from 1985 to    1996 with low inflation of 3.4-5.7% suddenly suffers a setback as the Baht which had been pegged to the US dollar is hit by massive speculation attacks the Thai government fails to defend the currency Thailand’s GDP shrinks -1.5% in 1997 then another -10.5% in 1998 and is no longer pegged this leads to a series of massive layoffs huge numbers of workers returning to their villages $17-billion bailout to Thailand and forces them to make restructuring and reforms to their financial system as the Rupiah is also forced to be free floating causing the Rupiah to    devalue from 2,600 per USD in early-August to 14,000 per USD by     late-January despite the IMF giving the country a $23-billion rescue package as the country’s currency is downgraded to junk bond Indonesia’s GDP will shrink -13.5% in 1998 bubble bursts in Manchuria following the next in the series of Asian nations to suffer the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis this nation will finally get the IMF after their second largest corporation Hongqi asks for an emergency loan after aggressive expansions and conglomerating with all the biggest corporations conglomerating burdening the nation’s banking sector with massive non-performing loans that would never be paid back the country will lose over 2.5 million jobs over the next six months The Mukden Stock Index the MSPI (Manchurian Stock Price Index) declines 4.4% from 2,057.23 to 1,966.72 on Wednesday to increase 1.1% the following day to 1,988.35 only to decline 10.4% on Friday to 1,781.56 then another 14.2% on Monday November 3rd to 1,528.58 then another 9.7% on    November 4th to 1,380.30 the stock market has its biggest drop on November 27th of 21.2% to 1,183.15 it will hit a low in July of 1998 at 297.56 points a 88% decline from its June, 1996 high of    2,479.86 it would not surpass that level until 2003 The Asian Financial Crisis hits Korea as a banking loan large corporation bubble nowhere near as severe as in Manchuria bursts almost immediately following Manchuria, the 7th and 3rd largest economies in the world now have hit the Asian Financial Crisis causing large outpours from the IMF, Manchuria needs $127-billion bailout to save its economy, while Korea is able to briefly survive on its Foreign Exchange Reserves which hit a peak of $408-billion in mid-1997 as Korea loses over 2-million jobs over a six month period from November to May of    1997-98 rapidly increasing the nation’s unemployment rate, the Manchurian currency the Tael value plummits from 456 Tael = 1 USD in November, 1997 to 2,042 Tael = 1 USD the following January 22nd, the Won plummets from 910:1 in November to a low of 1,968:1 in mid-January, Korea’s economy declines -6.3%, Manchuria’s declines -12.1% KOSPI Index falls 4% on November 7th from 3,272.56 to 3,141.66 then another 7% on the 8th from 3,144.66 to 2,921.74 again another 7.4% on the 24th to  2,645.16 meaning in just 17 days the index has lost a quarter of its value $8-billion in reserves left by the final week of the month despite using reserves left and is using reserves at the rate of $2-billion a day their debt-to-GDP ratio from 1,068% in 1946 to 7.4% in 1997 years with 40 million people flying at Incheon Airport 19.4 million at    Gimpo airport and 18.4 million flying at Jeju airport fighter with a top speed of Mach-1.97 about 24,000 pounds of thrust 9 hardpoints capable of holding 16,000 lbs of weapons chip Digital Media Broadcasting with a 1.6” TV screen on it Pyongyang in the year 1997 of 4,753.51, the stock indexes lowest level since representing a -71.5% drop in just 38 months shrinks -4.8% in 1998 essentially ending the Miracle on the Han which dominated the 2nd half of the 20th-century turning the country from one of the 30 poorest nations on Earth in 1952 to the 11th wealthiest nation on the planet in 1997, the 2nd half of the 20th-century also turned Japan and Korea from the poorest industrial nations in the world into the wealthiest, and from the least advanced industrial nations to the most technologically advanced nations on earth of Manchurians are internet users 105.8-million tons in 1997 to 85.2-million tons in 1998, dropping below the United States in production for the first time since 1985 policies to hold chaebol corporations accountable, greater transparency in    accounting practices, and passes economic reforms recommended by the International Monetary Fund tunnel connection Jeju Island to the Jeolla Province on the southwestern end of the peninsuala, because the airline route is getting overcrowded with over 10 million passengers annually flying between Seoul and Jeju alone in 1997 the project will be completed in 2010 1997 to $242-billion in 1998 while imports decrease from $281-billion to    $206-billion Gb hard drive at a cost of $999 Squares building is completed 6.9% in 1998 the highest rate since 1958, Manchuria’s unemployment rate rises from 2.6% in 1996 to 3.5% in 1997 to 8.5% in 1998 from 1967 to 1997 the unemployment in Korea has averaged 2.3% only going above 3% from 1974-75 the unemployment rate will drop below 3% only once in 2007 since then Dalian skyline in the year 1998 dramatically cut or dropped home corporations accountable, and to end large loans to large corporations meet for a third time since 1993 to discuss the idea of the creation of    the East Asian Community to deal with future economic crises as a result of the 1997-98 Financial Crisis however all talks end with disagreement over bitter past sentiment and nationalism again Trillion, Manchuria’s GDP is $1.402 Trillion, and China’s GDP is    $1.199-Trillion, Hainan’s GDP is $191.2-Billion, China will average 10.3% GDP Growth, while Manchuria will average 4.4% GDP growth, Korea will average 2.2% GDP growth over the 2000s, while Japan will average 0.6%, the GDP per capita of Japan is $37,303, for Korea its $27,666, for Hainan it’s $19,026, for Manchuria its $11,687, and for China its $1,049 Korea donates $5 billion in foreign aid, while Manchuria donates $400 million 10,429,000 living in Seoul, 3,772,000 living in Busan, 4,069,000 living in    Pyongyang, 3,402,000 living in Incheon, and 2,706,000 living in Tageu, 1,707,000 in America, and 1,321,000 in Russia has a rate of 89%, Hainan has a rate of 87%, Manchuria has a rate of 75%, and China has a rate of 36% living in Mukden, 8,093,000 living in Changchun-Fu, 5,928,000 living in    Harbin, and 3,628,000 living in Qinginwa living in Haikou, 1,144,000 living in Sanya, and 1,223,000 living in    Danzhou years in Korea, 80.1 years in Hainan, 75.9 years in Manchuria, and 71.2 years in China is elected president of Manchuria as a result of the financial crisis a    member of the left-center Liberal Party he is the first liberal candidate to win an election with 51% of the vote and voter turnout of 79% produces 3.1 million automobiles, Korea produces 93.2 million tons of    steel that year, Manchuria produces 93.7 million tons of steel debt-to-GDP ratio has skyrocketed from 7.4% in 1997 to 21% in 2000 and Manchuria’s debt-to-GDP ratio has soared from 9% in 1997 to 25% in 2000 Manchuria, and 11,056,000 visit Hainan building in the World outside the United States and the tallest building anywhere in Chinese speaking countries a rate of 1.47 2 hours and 8 minutes at a top speed of 217mph first expo world’s first DDR3 DRAM and 64Gb Hard Drive at a cost of $399 to 1.16 in 2000 as a result of the 1997-98 Financial Crisis cars in Manchuria an almost fivefold increase; and 2,800,000 cars in    Hainan Robot HUMO developed in the year 2000 Tower is built Dual-Core processor production again Manchurians use it    surpasses $1-Trillion the 5-year aid agreements with China continuing foreign aid at    $1,000,000,000 during 2002-07 the vote, voter turnout is 70.8% largest TV manufacturer towers 1 & 2 are completed in Mukden into their apartment product detailer on earth a massive accomplishment for a country that just only half a    century ago was one of the poorest nations on earth and the poorest industrialized nation in the world Memory chip world at $534 Billion surpassing Japan right behind the United States and Germany Northeast Asia the first fully developed non-western part of the world nations of Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as its initial members Busan in the year 2002 reign is often remembered for democratization and the economic boom, and those of particularly Young-soo’s generation are nostalgic of the era of    his reign he is succeeded by his 67-year old son Chung he is succeeded by     his 67-year old son Chungju Seoul wage increases from $4.75 to $5.50 meaning Korea’s minimum wage has again surpassed the US rate 256Gb Hard Drive at a cost of $299 peace between Manchuria and China scraping the Ceasefire and replacing it    with a real peace treaty 3GHz processor through Interstate-1 in Manchuria through Mukden and through Highway 1 in    Korea through Pyongyang to Busan it is part of the reason why the idea of     a tunnel going from Korea to Japan is becoming much more feasible 1.08, and Manchuria’s hits 1.12, Korea and Manchuria are going through a    severe aging problem as a result, the government passes laws guaranteeing maternity leave at work, giving tax breaks to couples with more than two children, tax-increases to those who decide not to have any children, and begins setting up day care centers, and paid maternity leave is now increased to 3-months in both countries the Honqi H210 a 500 seat, 250 foot long, 4 engine airliner with a    8,800-mile range; after spending almost 2 years 1997-99 in delay due to     economic downturn then followed by threatening of cancelation due to 9/11 and the following world recession Debut of the Honqi H210
 * 1997: Choe Tae-bok is elected president with 52.3% of
 * 1997: 16.4% of Koreans now use the internet and 3.5% of
 * 1997: Despite Manchuria exports equaling $206-billion
 * 1997: Sung-ho enrolls into the Seoul National
 * 1997: Korea’s GINI index hits an all-time low of 0.271
 * 1997: In terms of revenue Samsung is the world’s second
 * 1997: Park family buys their first personal computer as
 * 1997: Korea’s credit rating is downgraded from AAA to
 * 1997: Steel production hits its 20th century
 * 1997: May 14th-15th; Thailand’s
 * 1997: July 2nd; The Baht is forced to float
 * 1997: August 11th; The IMF approves a
 * 1997: August 14th; The crisis hits Indonesia
 * 1997: October 17th; The banking credit-loan
 * 1997: October 29th – November 27th;
 * 1997:  November;
 * 1997: November 7th – 24th: The
 * 1997: December; The Manchurian Banking system has
 * 1997: Samsung develops the world’s first 2G DRAM
 * 1997: In just over 50 years Korea managed to decrease
 * 1997: Air travel hits a high in Korea for the next 4
 * 1997: The KAI KF-X is released it is multirole stealth
 * 1997: Samsung develops the first cell phone with a DMB
 * 1998: June 16; The KOSPI index  to a low of 1,354.65 from its 1996 high
 * 1998: Hyundai Motors buys Kia Motors
 * 1998: Samsung develops the world’s first 1 GHz CPU
 * 1998: Manchuria’s GDP shrinks -10.2% and Korea’s GDP
 * 1998: 23.5% of Koreans are now internet users and 6.7%
 * 1998: Korea begins a mass tourist advertising campaign
 * 1998: Steel production in Korea plummets from
 * 1998: In response to the economic crisis, Choe Tae-bok makes
 * 1998: Choe Tae-bok, orders construction built on a
 * 1998: Manchuria exports increase from $207-billion in
 * 1998: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first 16
 * 1998: The 797 foot tall 62 story Qinginwa Future
 * 1998: Korea’s unemployment rises from 2.0% in 1996 to
 * 1999: State subsidies to large corporations are
 * 1999: Daewoo Motors is sold to General Motors
 * 1999: Park family has access to the internet in their
 * 1999: Wen Shenzen makes policy changes to hold large
 * 1999: Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Manchuria, and Taiwan
 * 1999: Korea’s GDP surpasses Germany’s GDP again
 * 2000: Japan’s GDP is $4.67 Trillion, Korea’s GDP is $2.296
 * 2000: Korea has a population of 83,000,000 with
 * 2000: Korea has an urbanization rate of 87.4%, Japan
 * 2000: Manchuria has a population of 120 million with 10,328,000
 * 2000: Hainan has a population of 10,100,000 with 2,783,000
 * 2000: Life expectancy is 81.1 years in Japan, and 80.8
 * 2000: Wen Shizen fails to win re-election, and Bo Xilai
 * 2000: Korea produces 6.4 million automobiles, Manchuria
 * 2000: Korean exports surpass $500 Billion
 * 2000: As a result of the Financial crisis Korea’s
 * 2000: 8,798,000 tourists visit Korea, 8,008,000 visit
 * 2000: Haikou tower is completed it is the third tallest
 * 2000: Korea has a fertility rate of 1.17, Manchuria has
 * 2000: Travel time from Seoul to Pusan is now reduced to
 * 2000: Expo 2000’ is held in Changchun, Manchuria’s
 * 2000: Samsung develops the world’s first 4G DRAM the
 * 2000: Kangxi Electronics develops the first 2 GHz CPU,
 * 2000: Korea’s birthrate has plummeted from 1.56 in 1997
 * 2000: There are 43,000,000 cars in Korea; 28,000,000
 * 2001: The 68 story 1001 foot tall Northeast Asia Trade
 * 2001: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first
 * 2001: Korea surpasses the United States in steel
 * 2001: 57% of Koreans now use the internet and 44% of
 * 2001: Korean trade in total for the first time
 * 2001: Choe Tae-bok meets with Jiang Zemin to continue
 * 2002: Roh Moo-hyun is elected president with 50.91% of
 * 2002: LG overtakes Sony to become the world’s second
 * 2002: The 804-foot tall 56 story Asia Pacific Center
 * 2002: The 84-year old Byung-ho moves in with his son
 * 2002: Sung-ho graduates from SNU gets a job as a
 * 2002: Korea is now the 8th wealthiest nation
 * 2002: Samsung develops the world’s first 4 Gb NAND
 * 2002: Korea becomes the third largest exporter in the
 * 2002: Manchuria joins the OECD making the entirety of
 * 2002: The East Asian Community is created with the
 * 2003: November 30; Wujong dies at the age of 91, his
 * 2003: The 1,109-foot tall Parc 1 Tower is completed in
 * 2003: Effective January 1st Korea’s minimum
 * 2003: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first
 * 2003: Bo Xilai meets with Jiang Zemin to settle a permanent
 * 2003: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first
 * 2003: Sung-ho moves into a 700-sqft 1-bedroom apartment
 * 2003: The AH1 Pan-Asian Expressway is formed it travels
 * 2003: Korea’s fertility rate has hit an all-time low of
 * 2003: Honqi Heavy Industries produces another airliner

Funeral of Emperor Wujong 20.1 million fly at Jeju and 19.9 million fly at Gimpo Airport making Incheon the world’s 9th busiest airport 30,100,000-admissions it makes $158-million at the box office breaking a    record $6.25 from W6,550 to W7,200 first family member to do so where he will be aiming for an Engineering Masters vote and a voter turnout of 69% into the military for 24 months the first 16 Gb DRAM tons for the first time since 1997 completed in Mukden Tower 1 is completed the tallest building in Manchuria Mukden skyline in the year 2004 where it will stay until 2012 from 7,200 won to 7,700 won tunnel traveling from Busan, Korea through a tunnel Tukushima Island then another tunnel to Iki Island, and the final tunnel to the city of Fukuoka on the 60th Anniversary of Japan’s surrender, as a symbol of    cooperation and that both sides to get a long for the first time in     history for the sake of future political and economic cooperation, and to     increase trade in the Asian continent as a part of the Route A-1 Global Superhighway Project a highway from London to Istanbul to Iran to New Dehli to Bangkok to Ho Chi Mihn City to Guangzhou to Beijing to Mukden to    Seoul to Tokyo, this sparks Anti-Japanese protests in Korea is completed in Seoul, it will be the world’s tallest building for 5 years third nation on the planet to hit that mark (after the United States in    1981, and Japan in 1989) first time since 1938 making Korea the wealthiest nation in the Far East year old graduate student and classmate in his class Boeing-797 the Honqi Aircraft Industries decides to build a blended wing aircraft that will seat 750 passengers to compete with the ever growing world air travel and to counter the threat of the Airbus A380 amusement park opens in Hwaseong becoming one of the first in his family to attend college conscription to surpass 50 million passengers hour and 45 minutes at a top speed of 230mph Trade Center is completed 5-year aid plan with China to give China $1,000,000,000 of foreign aid in    2007-12 Hard Drive at a cost of $349 Manchuria’s is now 29% Lotte World Tower the World’s tallest building from 2005 to 2010
 * 2003: About 41.5 million people fly at Incheon airport
 * 2004: China’s GDP surpasses Manchuria’s GDP
 * 2004: “The Admiral” is released selling
 * 2004: Korea’s minimum wage increases from $5.50 to
 * 2004: Sung-ho enrolls into graduate school at SNU the
 * 2004: Bo Xilai is re-elected president with 55% of the
 * 2004: Zeng Hanzhang graduates high school and enlists
 * 2004: Samsung develops the world’s first 16 Gb NAND and
 * 2004: Korea’s steel production surpasses 100-million
 * 2004: The 1,020-foot tall 75 story Moi City Tower 1 is
 * 2004: The 1,257-foot tall 81 story Enton Place Qingnwa
 * 2005: Korea’s minimum wage increases from $6.25 to $7.50
 * 2005: Construction begins on “The Friendship Tunnel” a
 * 2005: The 123 story 1,823 foot tall Lotte Jamsil Super Tower
 * 2005: Korea joins the $3-Trillion GDP club becoming the
 * 2005: Korea’s GDP per capita surpasses Japan’s for the
 * 2005: Sung-ho meets his future wife Kim Hye-jin a 24
 * 2005: In response to a magazine article of the
 * 2006: The world’s largest Universal Studios theme
 * 2006: Dalian hosts the 2006 World Cup
 * 2006: Zeng Hanzhang enrolls at Shenyang University
 * 2006: The Korean government ends compulsory
 * 2006: Incheon Airport becomes the first Korean airport
 * 2006: Travel times from Seoul to Pusan is reduced to 1
 * 2006: The 1,214 foot tall 86 story Qingwa International
 * 2006: Roh Moo-hyun meets with Hu Jintao and agrees on a
 * 2006: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first 1Tb
 * 2006: Korea’s debt-to-GDP ratio is now 26% and

Dalian Skyline in the year 2006 51.7% of the vote, voter turnout is 63.0% top speed of 248mph Korea from 6.2% in 1999 the 5-year aid plan with China decreasing foreign aid to $500,000,000 in    2009-10 then to $250,000,000 in 2011 then ending the program in 2012 after seeing the country’s success with hosting the Olympics in Beijing and being surpassed in GDP a year earlier with 50.9% of the vote and a voter turnout of 65% Tower is completed high-tech firm in Seoul Hard Drive at a cost of $399 1,152 feet tall at 68 stories, and Tower 1 is 1,260 feet tall at 76 stories, along with the 1,273 foot tall 81 floor Qingwa Eton Center Seoul in the year 2008 shrinks -5.7%, and Manchuria’s economic miracle ends as their economy shrinks -0.3% in 2009 Manchuria’s only shrinks -0.3%, nearly avoiding a recession, and Hainan’s economy grows by 0.5% the world’s first 64 Gb DRAM DDR3 4GHz CPU the device has 6-cores production GDP of $5.459 Trillion, and Korea has a GDP of $3.662 Trillion, and Manchuria has a GDP of $2.492 Trillion, Hainan has a GDP of    $319.1-Billion; China will average 8.5% GDP growth, while Manchuria will average 4.2% GDP growth, Korea will average 3.1% GDP growth, and Japan will average 2.4% GDP growth over the 2010s, Korea has a GDP per capita of    $43,705, while Japan has a GDP per capita of $43,015, Hainan has a GDP per capita of $30,105, Manchuria has a GDP per capita of $19,662, and China has a GDP per capita of $4,895 living in Seoul, 3,721,000 living in Pusan, 4,097,000 living in Pyongyang, 3,476,000 living in Incheon, and 2,721,000 living in Taegu, 1,953,000 in    America, and 1,517,000 in Russia living in Shenyang, 8,159,000 living in Changchun, 5,882,000 living in    Harbin, and 3,578,000 living in Dalian 2,896,000 living in Haikou, 1,223,000 living in Sanya, and 1,321,000 in    Danzhou GDP surpasses Britain’s a rate of 91%, Hainan has a rate of 85%, Manchuria has a rate of 79%, and China has a rate of 49% years in Hainan, and 82.9 years in Japan, 80.6 years in Manchuria, and 73.3 years in China 9th floor 3 bedroom 1,500 square foot apartment in Seoul as he    is now making $28/hour by his 89 year old widow Jung-soon Korea produces 104.1 million tons of steel, Korea produces 7.3 million automobiles, and Manchuria produces 4.3 million to 3.5% by 2015 time; Sochi, Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympics and Vancouver, Canada will host the 2018 Winter Olympics with Korea coming in 3rd with 10 Gold Medals behind, 11 Norway, and 12 Canada it a bridge has been built 47,000,000 in Korea; and 3,400,000 cars in Hainan the number of cars in    Manchuria surpassed Korea in 2007 Songdo section of Incheon in the year 2010 first time meaning that for the first time since the Roman Empire that China is no longer the most populated nation on Earth China’s population increases from 1,211,000,000 in 2010 to 1,218,000,000 in 2011 while India’s population increases from 1,206,000,000 in 2010 to 1,223,000,000 in 2011 largest exporting nation in the world behind only Germany, United States, and China named Seo-jun and gets a job as a business analyst for $18/hour Hard Drive at a cost of $799 $3.25/hour to $4.10/hour $9/hour from W8,300 to W10,125 now exceeding that of the United States surpasses $2-Trillion 5GHz CPU the device has 8-cores people will attend phones in the world surpassing Nokia experience a peak population with their population peaking at 84,014,000 as a result of years of low birth rate, and low immigration, it is    estimated that Manchuria will hit a population peak sometime in the early-to-mid-2020s daughter of Park Chung-hee, and she is elected with 51.2% of the vote, voter turnout is 76.8% is discovered that Chinese government is sending non-disclosed money into the elections and trying to secretly dictate the outcomes are 5. Kim Chwa-chin, 4. Gwanggaeto the Great, 3. Kim Gu, 2. Sejong the Great, and 1st is Gojong the Great; the bottom 3 are Yeonsangun and Lee Wang-yong, and Injo first ever blended wing airliner takes its first flight the plane, the plane is 260 feet wide 2 feet narrower than the wingspan of the A380 and can seat 800 passengers comfortably at Mach-0.88 (652-mph) for 12,000 miles, it is designed to fit in the newly built terminals for the A380, however each plane costs $500,000,000 the first orders are from Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways, and Korean Air The H215 Aircraft the first ever blended wing aircraft taking off at the Paris Air Show world’s largest airplane builder surpassing Boeing from $2.547-Trillion in 2012 to $2.853-Trillion in 2013 while France’s GDP only increases from $2.614-Trillion to $2.739-Trillion going from the 8th largest economy in the world to the 6th in just one year retaking their position that they held before the 1997-98 Financial Crisis, despite Manchuria having a population equal to the combined population of    France and the UK     Hard Drive at a cost of $999 Japan, China and the US for logistics projects and Russia’s Asia-Pacific Policy with 160-mph winds landing almost directly over the city of Haikou destroying 60,000 homes and causing $13-Billion in damages making it the most costliest disaster in the country’s history to $3.112-Trillion the country now has a GDP per capita of $24,400 they are projected to surpass $4-Trillion in 2018 and surpass Germany’s GDP in    2020 and Korea’s in the late-2020s and Japan around 2030 died 12 years ago at the age of 87 sells the family farm to land developers and moves to Osan to live with his 42 year old son Hyun-soo Conglomerate is the world’s wealthiest company; the largest company in    Manchuria is Honqi Transport Group at $259.6-Billion in assets; the largest company in Hainan is the finance corporation HST Group who have about $302.5-Billion in assets the World to reach $3-Trillion in GDP after the United States in 1981; Japan in 1989; Korea in 2005; Germany in 2006; and finally China in 2007; Manchuria’s GDP is destined to surpass Germany’s in 2018; Korea’s by the mid-2020s; and Japan by the mid-2030s 3-GHz for a cost of $3,499 16Tb Hard Drive at a cost of $1,699 cost of $3,999 have a GDP surpass $4-Trillion the others are (United States in 1984,    Japan in 1993-97, Japan in 1999-2001, Japan in 2003-present, and China in     2008) Skyline of Mukden in the year 2014 Buddhist, 17% are protestant, 10% are Catholic, and 1% are Folk GDP of $4.526-Trillion; Korea has a GDP of $3.921-Trillion; Manchuria has a GDP of $3.208-Trillion meaning that the region of East Asia has a    combined GDP of roughly $24-Trillion; Korea has a GDP per capita of $46,734; Hainan has a GDP Per capita of $36,202; Japan has a GDP per capita of    $35,609; Manchuria has a GDP per capita of $25,161; and China has a GDP per capita of $9,134 it is estimated that Manchuria’s GDP will surpass Germany’s by the year 2018 Manchuria’s is now 35% 17,559,000 visit Manchuria, and 20,554,000 visit Hainan 100.2-mbps; Hainan has an average speed of 93.6-mbps Japan has an average internet speed of 75.1-mbps; Manchuria has an average internet speed of    70.9-mbps; making them the world’s 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 9th fastest internet speeds on Earth tall 88 story Dalian Greenland Center is finally completed first Asian country with a population larger than 20,000,000 people to    reach a level of $50,000 per capita mark with a GDP per capita of $50,061 with 3.2-GHz it costs $5,499 at a cost of $8,999
 * 2007: Lee Myung-bak wins the presidential election with
 * 2007: China’s GDP surpasses Korea’s GDP
 * 2007: Manchuria high speed rail speed is increased to a
 * 2007: Sung-ho gets his Masters of Engineering
 * 2007: Roughly 14,205,000 international tourists visit
 * 2007: Korea’s unemployment rate recovers to 2.7% down
 * 2008: Lee Myung-bak meets with Hu Jintao to renegotiate
 * 2008: Han Changfu is elected president of Manchuria
 * 2008: The 107 floor 1,674-foot tall Busan Lotte World
 * 2008: Sung-ho gets a job as a product designer for a
 * 2008: Kangxi Electronics releases the world’s first 2Tb
 * 2008: The Forum 66 Towers 1 and 2 in Mukden, Tower 2 is
 * 2009: The 2008-09 Global Recession hits, Korea’s GDP
 * 2009: Korea’s economy shrinks -4.3% in 2009 while
 * 2009: Samsung develops the world’s first DDR4 DRAM, and
 * 2009: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first
 * 2009: Manchuria surpasses Japan and Korea in steel
 * 2010: China has a GDP of $5.931 Trillion, Japan has a
 * 2010: Korea has a population of 83,800,000 with 10,526,000
 * 2010: Manchuria has a population of 127,000,000 with 10,106,000
 * 2010: Hainan has a population of 10,600,000 with
 * 2010: China’s GDP surpasses Japan’s GDP, Manchuria’s
 * 2010: Korea has an urbanization rate of 89%, Japan has
 * 2010: Life expectancy is 83.3 years in Korea, 83.0
 * 2010: May 10; Sung-ho marries Hye-jin and moves into a
 * 2010: July 3; Byung-ho dies at the age of 92 survived
 * 2010: Manchuria produces 126.4 million tons of steel,
 * 2010: Unemployment peaks at 5.4% in 2010 it will drop
 * 2010: Wonsan hosts the Winter Olympics for the second
 * 2010: The city of Xuwen has 4,300,000 people living in
 * 2010: There are now 55,000,000 cars in Manchuria;
 * 2011: The world summit meeting is hosted in Seoul
 * 2011: The population of India surpasses China for the
 * 2011: Korean exports surpass $1-Trillion, the fourth
 * 2011: September 2; Sung-ho and Hye-jin have their son
 * 2011: Zeng Hanzhang graduates from Shenyang University
 * 2011: Kangxi Electronics releases the world’s first 4Tb
 * 2012: Manchuria’s minimum wage is increased from
 * 2012: Korea’s minimum wage is raised from $7.50/hour to
 * 2012: Korean trade the total value for the first time
 * 2012: The Nuclear Security Summit is held in Seoul
 * 2012: Kangxi Electronics develops the world’s first
 * 2012: Expo 12’ is held in Pyongyang where 22 million
 * 2012: Samsung becomes the largest producer of cell
 * 2012: Korea becomes the 24th nation to
 * 2012: Park Gyun-hee first female president elected
 * 2012: Anti-Chinese riots breakout in Manchuria when it
 * 2012: Han Chang-fu is re-elected president of Manchuria
 * 2013: Survey taken of greatest Korean leaders, the top 5
 * 2013: After $26-billion in investment the H215 the
 * 2013: Honqi Aircraft Heavy Industries becomes the
 * 2013: Manchuria surpasses France in GDP increasing to
 * 2013: Kangxi Electronics releases world’s first 8Tb
 * 2013: Korea and Russia hold a summit with Manchuria,
 * 2013: Super Typhoon Rammasun makes landfall in Hainan
 * 2014: Manchuria’s GDP surpasses $3-Trllion increasing
 * 2014: The 69 year old Jong-so the son of Jong-sil who
 * 2014: With $639.5-Billion dollars in assets Samsung
 * 2014: Manchuria becomes the 6th country in
 * 2014: Kangxi Electronics releases an 18-core CPU with
 * 2014: Minimum wage is raised from $9/hour to $10/hour
 * 2014: Kangxi Electronics releases the world’s first
 * 2014: Samsung releases the world’s first 4-Tb SSD at a
 * 2014: Korea becomes the fourth nation in the world to
 * 2015: 50% of Koreans are now non-religious; 21% are
 * 2015: China has a GDP of $11.39-Trillion; Japan has a
 * 2015: Korea’s debt-to-GDP ratio is now 42% and
 * 2015: 18,020,000 international tourists visit Korea,
 * 2015: Korea has an average internet speed of
 * 2016: After resuming construction in 2012, the 1,699-foot
 * 2016: With a GDP of $4.191-Trillion Korea becomes the
 * 2016: Kangxi Electronics releases the first 24-core CPU
 * 2016: Samsung now releases the world’s first 16-Tb SSD
 * 2016: Minimum wage is raised from $10/hour to $11/hour