Most Popular
-
1
Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
-
2
Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
-
3
[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
-
4
S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
-
5
[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
-
6
Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
-
7
On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
-
8
Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
-
9
Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
-
10
[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
-
KOICA holds exhibit for Maghreb
The Korea International Cooperation Agency kicked off its sixth exhibition at the Global Village in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday featuring the culture and history of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.The joint exhibition between KOICA and the embassies of the three nations located in the region of Northwest Africa, known as the Maghreb, held the biggest opening ceremony since the first exhibit in Mongolia in 2010.“This exhibition is a display of the three countries of the Maghreb region
July 15, 2012
-
France celebrates national day
The French Embassy celebrated its National Day while reflecting on its growing diplomatic relations with Korea, in Seoul on Friday. The reception, which commemorated the storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789, was also an occasion to applaud the long standing relationship Korea and France have enjoyed. France and Korea established diplomatic relations in 1886.French Charge d’ affaires Fabrice Leggeri called the relationship “strong and substantial,” during a speech at the French residence. Le
July 15, 2012
-
Indian Embassy to create defense attache in September
India is set to create a defense attache to Korea in September, Indian Ambassador Vishnu Prakash said Tuesday.“In September our full-fledged defense attach is being set up here as a part of the embassy,” said Prakash.The announcement comes after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh discussed greater defense cooperation measures with President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul last March.The two had agreed to establish a military attache at the Indian Embassy this year but had not set a specific time.Accord
July 15, 2012
-
Korea can benefit from India’s rise
India is looking to Korea for investment in a vast range of sectors, including construction, nuclear energy and defense, according to the Indian Ambassador in Seoul on Tuesday.Indian Ambassador Vishnu Prakash noted that after the CEPA came into effect in 2010, trade between the two countries has increased 70 percent.And it is believed that the number will only continue to grow in the future.“In the last year we traded $20.6 billion and we have been very encouraged by the response from both the b
July 15, 2012
-
S. Korean consul general in Auckland suspended over ethical lapses
The foreign ministry has suspended a senior diplomat in Auckland from regular duties for alleged ethical lapses, a ministry official said Saturday. The consul general in Auckland, whose name was withheld, was called home on June 15 after being accused of engaging in a scuffle with a fellow Korean official posted in New Zealand and sexually harassing female embassy staff. The ministry will hold
July 15, 2012
-
Korea to set up US$1 mln aid fund for Southeast Asian countries
Korea will set up an aid fund worth US$1 million to support development projects in five Southeast Asian countries, a foreign ministry official said Saturday.The fund, the amount of which will be gradually increased, will be run separately from South Korea's bilateral official development assistance to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, he said.The official said the deal was reached in Phnom Pen
July 14, 2012
-
Well-known Afghan commander among 20 dead in blast
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing more than 20 people including a well-known commander in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation's ethnic factions, Afghan officials said.Ahmad Khan Samangani, an ethnic Uzbek who is also a member of parliament, was welcoming guests to his daughter's wedding when
July 14, 2012
-
Honduran journalist shot dead, 21st in three years
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) -- A journalist has been shot dead inHonduras, in the 21st deadly attack on the media in the violence-wracked Central American country in the past three years, a press watchdog said Friday.Adonis Felipe Bueso Gutierrez, 24, was leaving an Internet cafe in the northern city of Villanueva with two cousins on July 8 when he was shot, said Longino Becerra of the Committee for Freedo
July 14, 2012
-
S. Korea willing to mull change of words for 'comfort women'
South Korea intends to consider using the term "sex slaves" to describe women who were forced to serve in Japanese military brothels in World War II, Seoul's top diplomat said Friday.South Korean victims have long been euphemistically called "comfort woman."South Korea is "willing to consider" changing the wording to sex slaves, South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said in a parliamentary s
July 13, 2012
-
China may release S. Korean activists
A senior Foreign Ministry official said Friday that China is likely to free four South Korean activists it held for more than three months. Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan met Meng Jianzhu, China’s police chief and state councilor, in Seoul and requested the release of Kim Young-hwan and three other anti-North Korea crusaders. “Yang responded that he is taking serious consideration in light of the two countries’ ties,” the official told reporters on customary condition of anonymity.“They did not
July 13, 2012
-
S. Korea, U.S., Japan move closer to building trilateral alliance
PHNOM PENH (Yonhap News) -- South Korea, the United States and Japan announced Thursday the establishment of a three-way security consultative body, laying the groundwork to build a trilateral alliance in the face of North Korean aggression.The announcement was made after South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gem
July 12, 2012
-
S. Korea mulls partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
South Korea is considering withdrawing at least some of its troops protecting aid workers in Afghanistan, government officials said Thursday.One official said the mission for the unit, called "Ashena," will be over at the end of this year, and other nations are also set to withdraw their forces from the war-ravaged country."We're looking into ways to pull out Ashena forces over several phases," th
July 12, 2012
-
S. Korea set to open ASEAN diplomatic mission in Jakarta
PHNOM PENH (Yonhap News) -- South Korea will soon open a diplomatic mission dedicated to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta this year, as Asia's fourth-largest economy seeks to deepen economic ties with the 10-member regional bloc, Seoul officials said Wednesday.Vice Foreign Minister Kim Sung-han and foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations pledged to work closely together t
July 11, 2012
-
Minister apologizes for mishandling Japan pact
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan appeared before parliament Wednesday for questioning over the government’s mishandling of an unprecedented military pact with Japan.Kim’s appearance came at the first foreign affairs committee meeting of the new National Assembly, indicating the urgency of justifying an intelligence-sharing agreement with the country’s former colonial ruler.A public uproar over the Cabinet’s covert approval of the deal last month forced Seoul to abruptly postpone the accord’s signi
July 11, 2012
-
U.S. not 'sandwiched' between Korea, Japan: Stephens
Kathleen Stephens, an iconic figure in recent South Korea-U.S. ties, emphasized Wednesday that Washington's alliances with Seoul and Tokyo are not a zero-sum game.Japan's gain does not have to be Korea's loss, or vice versa, she said.She dismissed a view that the U.S. is sandwiched between Japan, apparently seeking to expand the role of its self-defense forces, and South Korea, which remains wary of Japan's possible return to military imperialism."I think what has held true for a long time is st
July 11, 2012
-
N.K., Chinese ministers meet at ASEAN forum
PHNOM PENH (Yonhap News) ― Top diplomats of North Korea and China held talks on Wednesday, as South Korean officials suggested Beijing may increase pressure on Pyongyang to curb its belligerent behavior and ease tension on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun met his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in Cambodia, to be hosted by the 10-member bloc starting Thursday. Pak did not speak with reporters after
July 11, 2012
-
Tokyo spearheads protests against monuments for Korean women: source
The Japanese government has ordered its diplomats in the U.S. to step up efforts to block the erection of monuments here for Korean women forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's imperialist troops during World War II, a source said Tuesday.Japan's foreign ministry has "directed its Consul General in New York to actively protest monuments to comfort women being erected by Korean-American groups h
July 11, 2012
-
‘Korea should make greater investment in continental shelf’
Korea should ramp up efforts to defend its interests in the continental shelf that promises access to vast seabed resources and opportunities for scientific discovery, Park Yong-ahn, vice chairman of the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, said. The professor emeritus of oceanography at Seoul National University was reelected to the New York-based body in June for his fourth five-year term. The agency was established in 1997 to facilitate the U.N. Convention of the Law of the
July 10, 2012
-
Korea, China, Japan in race over continental shelves
Three neighbors jockeying for control of huge oil, gas, mineral reserves in East China SeaThe East China Sea has been contested for decades by South Korea, China and Japan, all seeking to tap huge oil, gas and mineral reserves believed be buried under the seabed. With their extended continental shelves overlapping in the northeastern part of the ocean, the Asian powers are laying formal claims with a U.N. body in charge of sea shelf carve-up.The three-way jousting recently took a twist. Seoul an
July 10, 2012
-
Korea, China agree on joint maritime claim against Japan
Working-level officials from South Korea and China have already agreed to submit a joint claim to an extended portion of continental shelf to a U.N. body to counter Japan’s increasing maritime assertiveness, a source with close knowledge of the matter told The Korea Herald. The two countries have been preparing formal documents to present to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. They filed their respective preliminary reports in May 2009, maintaining that their continental
July 8, 2012