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Academics from Korea, Singapore discuss cooperation

SINGAPORE -- ASEAN, a regional bloc consisting of 10 Southeast Asian nations, is Korea’s second-largest trade partner after China, and is expected to be the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2030, af...

Oct 19, 2018
Politics
Ruling party hails pope’s stance on NK visit, stresses strong ties with US

The Pope effectively accepting the invitation to North Korea conveyed by Moon Jae-in on Thursday will aid the denuclearization process, and is evidence of international society’s support for peace, r...

Oct 19, 2018
Politics
Gov't hones in on winning orders from Vietnam, UAE

South Korea's industry ministry said it will hold a meeting of government agencies, industry organizations and companies Friday to discuss support measures in getting project orders from the United A...

Oct 19, 2018
Politics
16 Seoul city employees committed suicide under mayor Park Won-soon: lawmaker

A total of 16 low-ranking civil servants working for the Seoul Metropolitan Government took their own lives since Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon took office in 2011, many of them due to work-related stres...

Oct 18, 2018
Politics
Moon and Italian president hold talks on bilateral ties

ROME -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Italian President Sergio Mattarella held a meeting Wednesday to discuss ways to further improve the countries' bilateral ties and expand their cooperati...

Oct 17, 2018
Politics
Opposition parties slam Seoul subway operator over job favors

contract workers to permanent employment status as of March, and among them, 108 people were relatives of the operator's existing and former employees, according to Rep. You Min-bong of the main oppo...

Oct 17, 2018
Politics
First ladies of South Korea and France walk arm in arm

South Korean first lady Kim Jung-sook and her French counterpart Brigitte Macron put on a display of friendship Monday as they locked arms together during a tour around the Louvre Museum. Kim, who a...

Oct 16, 2018
Politics
Land minister to help Korean builders win orders in Mideast

South Korea's land minister will help Korean construction companies win projects in the Middle East during her business trip to the region, the government here said Monday. (Yonhap) Kim Hyun-mee wi...

Oct 15, 2018
Politics
Korean ruling party to request Google delete fake news on YouTube

South Korea's ruling party members are set to visit the local unit of Google Inc. on Monday to request that the company delete more than 100 YouTube videos which they claim contain malicious fake inf...

Oct 15, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] Former deputy head of court administration grilled over alleged power abuses

The prosecutors grilled a former deputy chief of the top court’s administration affairs body, who is at the center of the massive judiciary power abuse scandal involving former Supreme Court Chief Ju...

Oct 15, 2018
Politics
Korean anger at Trump’s ‘approval’ comment continues

US President Donald Trump’s statement that Seoul would not lift sanctions on Pyongyang without America’s “approval” did not go down well in South Korea, prompting criticism from activists and politic...

Oct 14, 2018
Politics
President Moon embarks on five-nation Europe tour

President Moon Jae-in on Saturday started his nine-day tour to five European states to attend a series of international meetings and bilateral summits with key countries, according to presidential of...

Oct 13, 2018
Politics
US blocking medical aid to North Korea: Health minister

Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said Friday that the US was blocking South Korean efforts to provide medical aid to North Korea. In response to a ruling party lawmaker’s question during a parliamenta...

Oct 12, 2018
Politics
Erroneous information on South Korea abounds in foreign textbooks

More than 1,500 pieces of erroneous information about South Korea have been found in foreign textbooks, including a Croatian text saying the country speaks the Chinese language, a lawmaker said Frida...

Oct 12, 2018
Politics
Office of ex-Constitutional Court justice nominee raided over illegal stock-trading allegations

Prosecutors raided the office of a former Constitutional Court justice nominee who is suspected of using private information to profit from stock investments and make hundreds of millions of won, inv...

Oct 11, 2018
Politics

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