South Korea
A gas explosion at a subway construction site near the South Korean capital Seoul kills four workers and injures ten more.
Sources: Yonhap
Sources: Yonhap
South Korean politician Bae Hyun-jin is attacked and hospitalized in Seoul.
Nine people are killed by flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall in Seoul, South Korea.
Park Geun-hye is sworn in as the first female President of South Korea in the capital Seoul.
Prominent North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop is found dead in Seoul, South Korea.