President Park Geun-hye will visit Turkey, the Philippines and Malaysia starting this weekend to participate in multinational summits including the G20 and other regional dialogues, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. Park’s first stop will be Antalya, Turkey on Nov. 15-16 to attend the G20 summit, said senior presidential secretary on foreign affairs Kim Kyou-hyun at a press briefing. She will then fly...

The ASEAN-Korea Center on Thursday launched a moving tourism information center on the member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to promote the region’s culture and tourism among the Korean public. The ASEAN Roadshow will travel across the country through Saturday next week, starting from Seoul and making stops in Gwangju and Busan. The caravan will offer various experimental...

Korea’s successful economic growth not only brought wealth and prosperity but also posed inevitable urban challenges, especially the waste. Bombarded with increasing amounts of trash, Seoul has striven to cut down on garbage with various recycling-oriented measures since the concept was first introduced here in 1992. Under tough green initiatives, the government has pushed for a systematic wast...

Some 154 professors and lecturers specializing in Korean history at universities around the world on Sunday released a joint statement opposing South Korea’s move to reinstate government-authored textbooks for secondary education. The statement said that history textbooks in a democratic nation must respect various views and analyses, and be based on free discussion and research of professional ...

Over 83 percent of Middle East respiratory syndrome transmissions in Korea were linked to five super-spreaders during the outbreak in South Korea this summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday. The nation’s death toll, meanwhile, was raised to 37 on Sunday after another patient died. The patient was recovering from the aftereffects of MERS after testing negative earlier....

MOUNT GEUMGANGSAN, North Korea -- With joyful screams and unstoppable tears, 389 South Koreans were reunited with their long-lost kin at the Mount Geumgangsan resort as the first round of reunions began Tuesday. Some of the participants from the two Koreas collapsed as they recognized their brothers, sisters, sons and daughters they had been separated from since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War...

This is the second installment in a series of interviews with renowned scholars and experts on China as a resurgent Asian power triggering shifts in the regional order. This installment looks into China’s social problems and policy efforts to address them. -- Ed. Over the last several years, the Chinese government has been paying notable policy attention to “social governance” in tandem with non...

WASHINGTON -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye's first visit to the Pentagon on Thursday morning underscores her committment to Seoul’s alliance with the U.S. before she sits down for a summit at the White House. Park’s planned visit to the military superpower’s core defense organ was seen as a way to show off their bilateral ties and that they remain unshaken by growing concerns over Seoul ...

The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday cleared former presidential secretary Cho Eung-cheon on charges of leaking presidential confidential information. Cho, who had worked in the civil discipline department, was indicted in January for allegedly handing over 17 documents containing confidential information including allegations that Chung Yoon-hoi, Park’s former aide, colluded with presid...

The main opposition party Thursday removed its Rep. Kang Dong-won from the National Assembly’s House Steering Committee over his remarks alleging fraud in the 2012 presidential race that prompted fury from the ruling camp and placed his party in a strategic quagmire. The New Politics Alliance for Democracy’s senior vice floor leader Rep. Lee Choon-suak said during a party meeting that Kang’s arg...

WASHINGTON -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye started her official schedule Wednesday by paying tribute to Korean War veterans, embarking on her mission to upgrade the bilateral alliance with the U.S. amid growing concerns over a cozy relationship between Seoul and Beijing. On her second day in Washington, Park laid a wreath at the Korean War Veterans Memorial -- a monument established to h...

WASHINGTON -- President Park Geun-hye kicked off her official four-day visit to Washington on Tuesday to seek fresh momentum in reinforcing the alliance with the U.S., and bringing the focus back on North Korea’s nuclear ambition. Expectations are high for the South Korean leader as her trip to Washington comes at a critical juncture in dealing with North Korea amid looming provocations from the...