Serial Tomorrow's History — October 26, A Vision Reaching Beyond the Mirror Toward the Future

History is not merely a record that preserves elapsed time in amber. Specific dates that return each year on the calendar are weighty questions that the past poses to us, and a compass that helps us gauge the coming tomorrow.

1. Decisive Scenes of Yesterday: 1909 Harbin and 1979 Gungjeong-dong

Today, October 26, is a day when the most dramatic and immense inflection points of modern Korean history converge.

• October 26, 1909 Dr. An Jung-geun shot and killed Ito Hirobumi, the mastermind behind the invasion of Joseon, on the platform of Harbin Station in China. That single gunshot was an undying flame toward national independence amid the darkness of colonization, and a righteous cry for peace in East Asia.

• October 26, 1979 The gunshot that rang out at a private residence in Gungjeong-dong, Seoul, brought an end to the eighteen-year-long Yusin regime and authoritarian rule. It was a moment when the era of dictatorship waned amid tumultuous modern history, and a new chapter of democratization opened.

2. Today's Trajectory: The Legacy Left by That Day's Choice

The tragedies and resolutions of history are never confined to museums of the past.

The value of the 'Theory of East Asian Peace' that Dr. An Jung-geun envisioned compels us to reconsider today's coexistence and solidarity among nations, and the value of peace. Moreover, the yearning and pain for democracy left by the 10·26 Incident continues as an eternal task of how we should mature democracy in our daily lives, transcending institutional change.

Today's social conflicts, technological innovation, and democratic procedures that we encounter daily can only be truly explained atop the footprints left by yesterday.

○ Today's Historical Lesson

"The resolve of those who sought to become light even in the darkness of their era reminds us that it is the daily solidarity and practice of awakened citizens, beyond institutional change, that truly drives history forward."

3. Tomorrow's History: What Will We Record Today?

The values that figures of the past risked their lives to protect, and those moments when they turned history's helm against the absurdities of their time, pose to us a fundamental question.

"What line of history shall we leave without shame for the coming future today?"

This is an age where today's choices become tomorrow's history, beyond mere commemoration of events. Humanity's solidarity in the face of climate crisis, the essence of journalism that must be preserved amid rapidly changing AI and media environments, and coexistence with society's underprivileged—these are the beginning of 'tomorrow's history' that we must earnestly contemplate and record right now.

More than reminiscing about time that has passed, a solid stepping stone for designing a better tomorrow. We hope that the daily serial 'Tomorrow's History' opened by News S today becomes a profound resonance and historical insight in the daily lives of our readers.