Dates

Question 1

US returns Okinawa to Japan

Answer 1

1972

Question 2

Deng Xioping’s reform and opening up policies are implemented in China

Answer 2

1978

Question 3

4 SEZ are established in southern China

Answer 3

1979

Question 4

PRC and US establish diplomatic relations

Answer 4

1979

Question 5

Kwangju uprising in South Korea

Answer 5

1980

Question 6

Martial law is lifted in Taiwan

Answer 6

1987

Question 7

Seoul summer olympics

Answer 7

1988

Question 8

Tiananmen Square demonstrations

Answer 8

1989

Question 9

Famines in North Korea

Answer 9

1990s

Question 10

Japanese economic bubble bursts initiating lost decade

Answer 10

1991

Question 11

South Korea is admitted to OECD

Answer 11

1996

Question 12

Asian financial crisis

Answer 12

1997

Question 13

Hong Kong is returned to China

Answer 13

1997

Question 14

Long dominant Kwomintang loses power in Taiwan

Answer 14

2000

Question 15

First inter Korean summit

Answer 15

2000

Question 16

China enters WTO

Answer 16

2001

Question 17

six-party talkl over North Korea’s nuclear program are launched in Beijing

Answer 17

2003

Question 18

Protection of private property is written into the Chinese constitution

Answer 18

2004

Question 19

The PRC Property Law goes into effect

Answer 19

2007

Question 20

S.Koreans protest US-ROK free trade agreement

Answer 20

2007-08

Question 21

Beijing Summer Olympics

Answer 21

2008

Question 22

Global financial crisis

Answer 22

2008

Question 23

The long-dominant LDP loses power in Japan

Answer 23

2009

Question 24

China replaces Japan to become the world’s second largest economy

Answer 24

2010

Question 25

The economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) is signed between China and Taiwan

Answer 25

2010

Question 26

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies and his youngest son Kim Jong0un assumes power

Answer 26

2011

Question 27

ROK-US free trade agreement takes effect

Answer 27

2012