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The Relationship between South and North Korea before 1970's |
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Separated Families |
| Since the Armistice Agreement in July, 1953, there have been many contacts between the two Koreas to resolve the matters regarding separated families and people who abandoned their hometown in the war. The first meeting was held, according to the Armistice Agreement, during December 11th, 1953, and March 1st, 1954, through the committee organized to resolve this matter. The second meeting was held through the International Committee of Red Cross. In 1954, south Korea requested the International Committee of Red Cross of helping south and north Korea to resolve the matters regarding separated families based on the Resolution about mediating the reunion of separated families selected in the 18th Red Cross International Conference held in 1952, in Canada. The International Committee of Red Cross accepted this request and suggested that they visit south and north Korea to research the exact condition. However, this was rejected by north Korea, and other alternatives, such as exchanging information, were suggested. In November, 1957, north Korean Red Cross returned information about 337 people out of 7,034 inquired, and south Korean Red Cross announced to north Korean Red Cross that 14,012 out of 14,032 inquired came to the south in their own will. |
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Sports Conference to Organize Joint-teams for Tokyo Olympics |
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Korea Olympics Committee joined International Olympics Committee(IOC) in 1947, and, since then, have participated in Olympics representing the Korean Peninsula. However, the north Korea suggested that south and north Korea compose joint-teams for 1964 Tokyo Olympics at the 59th IOC Conference held in Moscow in June, 1962. They also suggested south Korea that they hold a sports conference of south and north Korea at Panmunjeom. The south Korean Olympics Committee sent an agreement on forming joint-teams to north Korea. In the coming December, the representative of the south Korean Olympics Committee visited IOC and suggested to hold a sports conference of south and north Korea in Lausanne. As a result, a sports conference was held in Lausanne with IOC and representatives of south and north Korea, |
| and two others were held in Hong Kong with representatives of south and north Korea. And, again, another conference was held by IOC at the IOC headquarter in Lausanne, with representatives of the two, to discuss the matters regarding flags, a national anthem, and organization of joint-team. They agreed upon the following facts: First, they shall form a joint-team of south and north Korea. Second, the national anthem shall be "Arirang." Third, The organization of the team shall follow the case of East and West Germany. Fourth, they shall leave the matter of flag upon IOC. |
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