Person1915 – 2001

Chung Ju-yung

Founder of the Hyundai group; crossed Panmunjom with a herd of cattle in 1998 and opened the Mount Geumgang tours

He founded Hyundai Engineering & Construction, which took on national development works such as the Gyeongbu Expressway and construction projects abroad, and expanded into shipbuilding and cars. In 1992 he founded the Unification National Party and ran for president. In 1998 he twice crossed Panmunjom into North Korea with herds of cattle on trucks, and Mount Geumgang tours began that November. Hyundai later also took part in the Kaesong Industrial Complex project.

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1998 – 2008Start of Mount Geumgang Toursleader
After Chung Ju-yung crossed into North Korea with a herd of cattle, a ship carrying South Korean tourists sailed from Donghae for Mount Geumgang.

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Kim Dae-jung1924 – 2009
15th President (1998–2003), the first transfer of power to the opposition by election. Steered recovery from the currency crisis and held the first inter-Korean summit; Nobel Peace Prize 2000

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Changing Unification Policies1948 – 2018
From “march north” to the Panmunjom Declaration — inter-Korean relations from confrontation to dialogue, through joint statements and agreements to summits (up to 2018)