Today in Korean history
April 28
1926 -- Song Hak-seon, a Korean fighter for independence from Japanese colonial rule, makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Makoto Saito, the Japanese governor general in Korea.
1960 -- Lee Ki-boong, who stepped down as vice president after the April 19 student revolution for democracy, commits suicide with his family at the presidential residence in Seoul.
1986 -- Two student activists at Seoul National University, Kim Se-jin and Lee Je-ho, burn themselves to death as part of an antiwar, anti-nuclear protest.
1995 -- A massive gas explosion during morning rush hour at a subway station construction site in Daegu, 302 kilometers southeast of Seoul, kills more than 100 people.
1997 -- Park Suk-tae, a former executive of Korea First Bank, commits suicide at his home in Seoul. Park had testified on April 17 of that year at a parliamentary hearing on a corruption scandal involving the South Korean conglomerate Hanbo Group. Many creditor banks in the country were suspected of having provided loans to the conglomerate in exchange for kickbacks.
2002 -- A reunion of separated family members from North and South Korea is held at the Mount Geumgang resort in the North.
2008 -- Yi So-yeon, South Korea's first astronaut, returns home after her historic mission to the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth. Her mission to the ISS made South Korea the 36th country to send an astronaut into space. She became the 49th woman to reach orbit and the 158th person to visit the ISS.
2021 -- Heirs of late Samsung Group chief Lee Kun-hee announce they will pay more than 12 trillion won in inheritance taxes, the largest ever in the country's history.
2025 -- North Korea confirms for the first time it has deployed troops to Russia to support Moscow's war against Ukraine under their mutual defense treaty, claiming the North's soldiers helped Russia regain control of Kursk.
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