On This Day: Samsung's DRAM, Snuppy the Cloned Dog, NIS Scandal, and Japan-South Korea Tensions
Quick Look
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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Why It Matters
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.
