(Official U.S.- Korea 60th Anniversary Logo)
1948- 4-H members from the U.S. visited Korea to provide aid. (Korea 4-H Association Photo)
Farmers from the U.S. pose for a commemoration photograph after delivering a second tranche of aid for the 4-H movement to the port of Busan. (Korea 4-H Association Photo)
A trainee from the U.S in Korea for International Four-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) training is learning how to use the abacus from an agricultural expert in Korea. (Korea 4-H Association Photo)
U.S. and Republic of Korea 4-H Associations sign an MOU on 4-H Network Collaboration. (Korea 4-H Association Photo)
President Truman's remarks on the Korean War are broadcast and telecast from the projection room of the White House on July 19. The President calls for a steady effort to win the Korean War.
In addition to providing manpower and weaponry to South Korea during the Korean War, the U.S. provides aid to schools, companies, and hospitals. This U.S. aid continued from the end of the Korean War till September 18, 1980, involving organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its predecessor, the International Cooperation Administration.
Ellis Briggs, Ambassador to Korea from 1952 -1955, stands in front of the United States Embassy Chancery after it was reopened following the retaking of Seoul by the allied forces.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM Korea) is founded.
President Dwight Eisenhower stands in a car and waves to crowds lining streets upon his arrival in Seoul, Korea.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, U.S. and Korean flags in hand, is greeted by a crowd of Koreans waving similar flags.
Peace Corps volunteer Richard Trinrud examines the results of a tuberculosis test for a Korean middle school student. "This was a field trip practicum during our (K24) training. After the vaccinations and tests were done, the school principal treated the half dozen volunteers to a lunch of peanut butter sandwiches and Coca-Cola in his office," Trinrud said.
General Creighton Abrams presents Bronze Stars to the soldiers of South Korea's Tiger Division in Vietnam.
Korea supports the U.S. government in the Vietnam War by providing more than 300,000 South Korean troops from 1964 – 1973.
President Gerald R. Ford begins his trip to the Republic of Korea.
The coordinator and a member of the Wyoming 4-H association visited Korea as part of International Four-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) training. (Korea 4-H Association Photo)
South Korean President Park Chung-hee and his daughter Park Geun-hye welcome U.S. President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter.
President Ronald Reagan looks across the Demilitarized Zone at Guard Post Collier, South Korea.
Democratic elections are held for the first time in the Republic of Korea.
South Korea hosts the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea's government agency in charge of aid programs in developing countries worldwide, is established.
The Republic of Korea joins the United Nations.
The Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Program launches.
The Republic of Korea's per capita income tops US$10,000. (GDP per capita: purchasing power parity 10,326, World Bank)
The Republic of Korea joins the World Trade Organization.
South Korea wins a seat on the UN Security Council for the first time.
ROK accedes to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Korea supports the U.S. government by deploying troops to Afghanistan.
Korea supports the U.S. government by deploying troops to Iraq.
Ban Ki Moon is appointed Secretary General of United Nations.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan sign a memorandum of understanding on the Work, English Study, Travel (WEST) program, an elite professional development program for top South Korean university students and young professionals.
Korea formally joins the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, beginning visa-free travel for Koreans to the United States.
The Work, English Study, Travel (WEST) Program, an elite professional development program for top South Korean university students and young professionals, is launched.
President Barack Obama and President Lee Myung-bak adopt the Joint Vision for the Alliance of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea.
The first-ever ROK-U.S. Foreign and Defense Ministers’ Meeting is held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
Korea hosts the G-20 Seoul Summit.
Ambassador Sung Kim becomes the United States' first Korean-American ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
Korea hosts the 4th High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan.
The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement takes effect.
Korea hosts the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.
President Barack Obama speaks at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, the first address by a sitting U.S. president to the Korean public.
Korean-American Jim Yong Kim is appointed head of the World Bank.
The number of Koreans studying in the U.S. reaches 72,295, the largest source of foreign students as a percentage of a country's population. The number of Koreans living in the U.S. tops 1.7 million.
Korea hosts the Yeosu Expo.
Korea is elected to the UN Security Council for the second time, winning a non-permanent seat on the 15-nation council.
The U.S. Embassy in Gwanghwamun launches a year-long celebration of close U.S.-Korea relations with an 18-meter banner emblazoned with the words “60 Years of Partnership and Shared Prosperity."
U.S. Ambassador Sung Kim and ROK Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun unveil the logo marking 60 years of partnership and shared prosperity between the United States and the Republic of Korea.
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