Portal:South Korea/Did you know/1

• ...that Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari?
• ...that South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
• ...that Song Du-yul, a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany, was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/January#30 January 2006, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/January#18 January 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July#18 July 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.