2021 in South Korea

The following lists events in the year 2021 in South Korea.

Incumbents

• President: Moon Jae-in (assumed office from May 10, 2017)
• Prime Minister:
• Chung Sye-kyun (until April 16, 2021)
• Hong Nam-ki (until May 14, 2021)
• Kim Boo-kyum (from May 14, 2021)

Events

• April 7 – 2021 South Korean by-elections.
• April 13 – South Korean government protested and regretted the Japanese cabinet decision to dump radioactive water of the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.
• December 24 – The South Korean government pardons former president Park Geun-hye due to deteriorating health, also exonerating the first female prime minister Han Myeong-sook.

Deaths

• January 5 – Kim Tschang-yeul, 91, South Korean painter.
• April 27 – Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, 89, South Korean cardinal.

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