2024 in South Korea

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2024
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The following lists events in the year 2024 in South Korea.

Incumbents

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Office Image Name Assumed office / Current length

President of the Republic of Korea
Yoon Suk Yeol 10 May 2022
(2 years ago)
 (2022-05-10)

Speaker of the National Assembly
Kim Jin-pyo 4 July 2022
(2 years ago)
 (2022-07-04)
Woo Won-shik 5 June 2024
(5 months ago)
 (2024-06-05)

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Cho Hee-dae 8 December 2023
(11 months ago)
 (2023-12-08)

President of the Constitutional Court
Lee Jong-seok 30 November 2023
(11 months ago)
 (2023-11-30)

Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
Han Duck-soo 21 May 2022
(2 years ago)
 (2022-05-21)

Events

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January

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Lee speaking on 2 January 2024, shortly before the attack

February

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March

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  • 12 March –
    • 2024 South Korean doctors' strike: The government begins suspending the medical licenses of thousands of striking doctors due to growing concerns that the month-long strike is affecting medical services.[13]
      • Over 10,000 doctors go on strike at 100 educational hospitals, leading to a number of delays in treatment.[13]
U.S. Secretary Antony J. Blinken delivers opening remarks at the Third Summit for Democracy in Seoul

April

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May

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  • 2 May – South Korea raises its terrorism alert level to the second highest level, citing strong chances of an attack from North Korea on its overseas diplomatic offices.[23]
  • 9 May – President Yoon holds a press conference in the Presidential Office to mark his second anniversary in office. Yoon acknowledgesthat the government's measures to solve various economic problems, including high prices, have fallen short of people's expectations and expresses his concern about the country's low birth rate. He also announces plans to establish a new ministry.[24]
  • 21–22 May – President Yoon, Group of Seven leaders, Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and OECD and EU leaders attend the AI Seoul Summit that is also attended by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, as well as representatives from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Naver.[25]
  • 22 May – President Yoon announces a ₩26 trillion (US$19 billion) support package for the country's semiconductor industry, which accounts for 18% of the country's total exports.[26]
  • 29 May – North Korea deploys 260 balloons carrying garbage and possible human waste over South Korea, which Pyongyang says is in retaliation for balloons sent into the North by anti-regime activists.[27]

June

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  • 4–5 June – 2024 South Korea–Africa Summit: President Yoon and representatives from 48 African countries held a summit meeting in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do.
  • 4 June – The State Council of South Korea suspends the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration due to border tensions over balloons sent by North Korea.[28]
  • 5 June – The United States and South Korea participate in the first precision guided bombing drill in seven years over the Korean Peninsula.[29]
  • 6 June – A South Korean activists’ group led by North Korean defector Park Sang-hak sends 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, U.S. bills, and USB sticks containing K-pop songs and South Korean dramas to North Korea with 10 balloons in retaliation to for the North's deployment of balloons carrying trash to South Korea.[30]
  • 7 June – Samsung Electronics experiences its first ever labor walkout following a dispute over pay and workers' bonuses.[31]
  • 9 June:
    • South Korea announces that it would resume loudspeaker broadcasts into North Korea for the first time since 2018 in retaliation for the latter's deployment of trash-filled balloons.[32]
    • A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.[33]
  • 12 June – A magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes North Jeolla Province, damaging at least 285 structures.[34]
  • 18 June:
    • A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the central section of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.[35]
    • President Yoon Suk Yeol declares a 'demographic national emergency'.[36]
  • 20 June – A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.[37]
CCTV footage of the battery explosion in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province

July

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August

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September

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  • 2 September –
  • 4 September – President Yoon and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon hold a summit in Seoul. Both leaders pledged to strengthen bilateral relations in various fields including trade, investment, security and technology, and to cooperate on regional and international issues, and express concerns about the international situation, including security in the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[63]
  • 6 September – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes his last visit to South Korea before leaving office. President Yoon and Kishida emphasize that it is very important to maintain the momentum of cooperation and exchange between the two countries.[64]
  • 30 September –
    • The Seoul Western District Court convicts three police officers, including the former head of Yongsan police station Lee Im-jae, of negligence over their handling of the Seoul Halloween crowd crush in 2022 and sentences them to up to three years imprisonment.[65]
    • Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico makes an official visit to South Korea and holds a summit with President Yoon, resulting in a joint statement to establish a strategic partnership in the areas of security, defense, economy, trade, energy, and technology.[66]

October

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  • 2 October –
    • A defector from North Korea is arrested near Paju after trying to return to North Korea using a stolen bus which crashes into a barricade at the Unification Bridge in the DMZ.[67]
    • As the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, President Yoon holds an emergency meeting with senior government officials and orders the immediate dispatch of military transport planes to repatriate South Koreans. They also discuss measures to minimize the impact on the economy and energy supplies.[68]
  • 10 October – Han Kang is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.[69]
  • 11 October – North Korea accuses South Korea of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang on three occasions since 3 October. South Korean officials deny the claims.[70]
  • 15 October – The Changwon District Court rules that misogyny is a hate crime in the case of a man convicted of physically assaulting a woman over her short hair.[71]
  • 17 October –
  • 24 October – A balloon from North Korea carrying rubbish lands on the Presidential Residence in Yongsan, Seoul.[74]

November

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Holidays

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As per Presidential Decree No. 28394, 2017. 10. 17., partially amended, the following days are declared holidays in South Korea:[77][78]

Art and entertainment

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Deaths

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January

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February

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April

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September

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See also

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Country overviews

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References

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