Historical Moments in Korean History: From Park Chung-hee to Chun Doo-hwan

May 3 1967 -- Park Chung-hee, who led a military coup in 1961, is reelected as South Korea's sixth president. 1984 -- Pope John Paul II, the 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, visits South Korea. 1999 -- Choheung Bank, now merged with Shinhan Bank, announces a merger with Chungbuk Bank, following the financial meltdown that hit the country in late 1997. 2005 -- The board of SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, approves a plan to sell a major stake in its handset-making unit, SK Teletech Co., to then No. 3 player Pantech Co. in a deal worth 300 billion won (US$257 million). 2010 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrives in the Chinese port city of Dalian by train on his first trip to China since 2006. He left the city the following day for a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing. 2013 -- The last seven South Koreans who had negotiated the settlement of accounts on behalf of local businesses at an inter-Korean complex in North Korea return home, completing a pullout from the zone amid high tensions on the peninsula. 2018 -- Former President Chun Doo-hwan is indicted for defaming in his memoirs a deceased Catholic priest and other victims in his government's brutal crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the southern city of Gwangju. The fresh indictment comes 23 years after he was convicted of mutiny and corruption before being released on a special presidential pardon. The former leader from 1980-88 never admitted guilt to the mutiny charges and also denied all charges related to the memoirs before his death in 2021.