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South Korean and US Navy admirals inspecting the wreckage of the Cheonan at Pyeongtaek on September 13, 2010.Leaders of the G-20 countries present at the Seoul Summit.A building damaged by fire after the Bombardment of Yeonpyeong.
February 26 – Kim Yuna becomes the women's single skating world champion at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and sets a new world record with 228.56 points overall.[4]
March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan sinks while carrying 104 personnel off the country's west coast, killing 46.[5]
March 30 – One South Korean naval diver is hospitalized and another diver, Han Ju-ho, dies after losing consciousness whilst searching for survivors from the Cheonan.[6]
April
April 3 – The South Korean government calls off the rescue operation for the missing Cheonan sailors.
April 15 – The Cheonan's stern is raised from the seabed and is transported to the Pyongtaek navy base for investigation.[7]
April 21 – South Korea discovers two North Korean assassins plotting to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, a senior official who defected from North to South Korea.[8]
April 23 – North Korea seizes five properties owned by South Korea in Mount Kumgang.[9]
April 24 – The bow portion of the Cheonan is salvaged. The bodies of 40 seamen out of the 46 killed are recovered.
April 26 – The South Korean government announces the completion of the world's longest seawall in a reclaimed tidal flat in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province.[10]
April 27 – Oh Eun-Sun becomes the first woman to successfully scale all of the world's 14 highest peaks.[11]
April 29 – The deceased sailors of the Cheonan are given a joint funeral.
May
May 20 – A South Korean-led investigation carried out by a team of international experts from South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Sweden presents a summary of its investigation into the Cheonan sinking, concluding that the warship had been sunk by a North Korean torpedo fired by a midget submarine.[12]
May 29 – President Lee Myung-bak, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama meet in Jeju in a trilateral summit to discuss strengthening trade ties and the effects of the Cheonan incident.
June 2 – The South Korean government announces that it will spend 11.3 billion won (US$9.3 million) until 2013 to support research on key three-dimensional3D TV technologies.
June 10 – The second launch of Naro-1 ends in failure after 137 seconds when the rocket explodes and contact is lost.[13]
August 10 – Chung Un-Chan officially resigns.[21] The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan apologizes to South Korea for the colonization of the Korean peninsula in the early 1900s.[22]
September 13 – An independent investigation into the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan finds evidence of North Korean involvement, although this claim is disputed.[28][29]
November 18 – A government report finds that the Sunshine Policy adopted by the former government had not resulted in changes to Pyongyang's behavior.
November 23 – North Korea shellsYeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident causes an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompts widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declares it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.[40][41][42]
December
December 2 – More than 55,000 animals are culled after a breakout of foot-and-mouth disease at pig farms in South Korea.[43]
