On This Day: Samsung's DRAM, Snuppy the Cloned Dog, NIS Scandal, and Japan-South Korea Tensions
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August 3rd marks historical milestones including Samsung's 1983 64K DRAM development, Seoul National University's 2005 dog cloning, Kim Euong-yong's 2013 baseball victory, South Korea's NIS 2017 political manipulation scandal, and Japan's 2019 order to remove a WWII sexual slavery statue amid a trade dispute with South Korea.
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The article chronicles several significant events that occurred on August 3rd across various years, primarily focusing on South Korea's technological, scientific, sports, and political developments, alongside its diplomatic relations.
Aug. 3
1983 - Samsung Electronics Co. declares it is the world's third firm to develop 64K dynamic random access memory (DRAM) after companies in the United States and Japan.
2005 - A Seoul National University research team, led by Hwang Woo-suk, announces the cloning of a dog, which was independently verified through genetic testing. The dog, an Afghan hound, was named Snuppy.
2013 - Kim Euong-yong, a renowned South Korean pro baseball manager, logs his 1,500th victory in the Hanwha Eagles' 4-2 win over the NC Dinos.
2017 -- An internal probe team at South Korea's National Intelligence Service announces the agency operated up to 30 "extra-departmental teams," many involving internet-savvy civilians, as part of illicit political operations aimed at manipulating voters years ago.
2019 -- Japanese officials order a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan's World War II-era sexual slavery to be removed from the Aichi Triennale international contemporary art festival. The strongly protested order came in the wake of a trade dispute between South Korea and Japan, triggered by Tokyo's tightening of key exports to Seoul on July 4 in apparent relation over compensation for Korean victims of wartime forced labor.
