as far as im concerned, the most recent hisctorical event in korea is 2002 korea japan world cup. there are numourse reasons why i choos this for the most historical event, but at this time i am going to illustrate three aspect of them.
first of all, many big world-events took place in korea, such as 88 seoul olympic, busan apec assembly, deagu handedcap people olimpic and so on. however would cup is one of the most popluar event in the world. when world cup sesean comes, every broadcast, news paper are coverd with news about world cup. in this aspect, the fact that world cup have held in korea help korea be known all over the world.
moreover, at this game, korea national soccer team show very excellent play. they made it to the semi fanial. every time, there are korean team play game, most of korean people wore same red t-shirt to root korean team. when korea team beat italy national team which is regarded one of the most strong soccer team over the world, they could give hope to korean people. they made korean as one. when our tean score a goal in the game, we hug each other and even cry with happy together. i think after this event, korea people could get a positive attitude like we can do it.
last but not least, this event have been held in cooperation of korea and japan. in historical view, although korea and japan is close to each other in geograpic terms, the people of each country had sort of bad feeling for each other, becouse korea was under the rule of japan for 40years in the past. however, in order to held this historical event successfully, both country had to cooperate and become close. since korea and japan is just two hours away from each other by plane, whenever there are games we want to watch in person, we could go and back in one day. i believe beacuse these reason, the relationship between korea and japan got better than before.
to sum up, 2002 world cup was a good advertisement for korea towards world and made korean people as one cheering for our team, plus, by helding this big event with japan, the relationship beteewn two country became colse. i safely could say 2002 world cup is the most historical event.
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