2014 in South Korea

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Events in the year 2014 in South Korea.

Incumbents

February 6 – Kim and Chae are rescued from the Sinan County salt farms.
February 17 – A building collapse at a mountain resort in Gyeongju kills ten people.^[1]

April 8 – The Australia–Korea Free Trade Agreement is signed by the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and South Korean President Park Geun-hye
April 16 – A ferry carrying 476 people capsizes and sinks off the South Korean coast, killing at least 262 people and leaving 40 others missing.^[2]

July 16 – A fire incident aboard the train at Busan Metro in the South Korean port city of Busan with five people injured and 100 people were evacuated.^[3]
July 17 – A firefighting helicopter searching for missing people from the sinking of MV Sewol in April crashes in the South Korean city of Gwangju with five people aboard.^[4]
July 30 – 2014 South Korean by-elections

September 3 – Ladies' Code was involved in an accident at Yeongdong Expressway leading to deaths of members EunB and RiSe.
September 19 – The Asian Games take place in Incheon, South Korea.

December 5 – Korean Air flight 086 was returned to gate at JFK airport because vice-president of Korean Air and a passenger aboard the plane, Heather Cho, became enraged about Macadamia service. As a result, the flight arrived at Incheon International Airport 11 minutes late.

April 20–26 – 2014 IIHF World Championship Division I (Group A)
July 18–26 – South Korea finish top of the table at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships winning ten gold medals from 27 events.
September 19 – October 4 – 2014 Asian Games

^ Park, Ju-min (February 17, 2014). "Building collapse at South Korean resort kills 10: officials". Reuters. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
^ "Death toll from sunken ferry rises to 262". Yonhap via The Korea Times. May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
^ "5 injured, hundreds evacuate in Busan subway fire". Global Post. Yonhap News Agency. July 17, 2014. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
^ "Firefighting helicopter crashes in South Korea, killing 5". Fox News. Associated Press. July 17, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
^ "Two K-pop stars killed after band's car crashes on rain-soaked highway". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 27 May 2018.