Today in Korean history

May 6

1952 -- Commercial phone lines connecting Seoul and Busan open.

1981 -- The Korea Fair Trade Commission, the nation's antitrust watchdog, is launched.

2003 -- The National Assembly passes a revision bill on war veterans and Agent Orange patients to expand government subsidies and free treatment.

2005 -- President Roh Moo-hyun demands that Japan take concrete "action" rather than make "apologies" for the atrocities it committed during its colonization of the Korean Peninsula and World War II.

2018 -- A South Korean court rules that an Iranian who converted from Islam to Christianity should be given refugee status as he could be persecuted if he goes back to his country.
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