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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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NewJeans to headline palace show
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Coupang's Kim Bom escapes chaebol chief designation again
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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CIO chief nominee to explain allegations at confirmation hearing
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Yoon vows to run country 'rightly' on Buddha's birthday
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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Korean, Japanese ministers to meet in N.Y. this week
The foreign ministers of Korea and Japan plan to hold talks in the U.S. this week in an apparent attempt to restore the two countries’ relations soured by historical and territorial feuds. Yun Byung-se will meet with Fumio Kishida on Thursday in New York on the margins of the annual U.N. General Assembly slated for Sept. 17 to Oct. 1. This will be their second bilateral discussion since they were sworn in early this year.With some ranking Japanese officials continuing to deny wartime atrocities,
Sept. 23, 2013
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‘End quotas to see real Thai food’
Ever eat out at an authentic Thai restaurant here? That is doubtful, according to the Thai Embassy in South Korea.There is a dearth of restaurants in South Korea serving real Thai cuisine made from real Thai ingredients at the moment, according to the Thai Ambassador to South Korea. But he is keen to change that.Kittiphong na Ranong sees improving Thai food restaurants as a way of prying open markets here, which he sees as too closed to agricultural products from his country.The embassy is deter
Sept. 22, 2013
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Papua New Guinean envoy stresses resource development for all
Papua New Guinean Ambassador to South Korea Bill Veri underscored his nation’s commitment to making sure resource development projects in his country benefit not only foreign investors and the national government, but also traditional landowners, on Papua New Guinea’s 38th Independence Day.Veri said the island nation was committed to ensuring everyone benefits from the enormous potential that lies in developing Papua New Guinea’s vast mineral and energy wealth during an Independence Day receptio
Sept. 22, 2013
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German language students celebrate ties
The German Embassy and partner organizations celebrated PASCH Fest 2013 with hundreds of high schoolers at Kyunggi Girls’ High School in southern Seoul on Sept. 14.The Partner School Program, or PASCH, brings together students enrolled at the half dozen or so German language programs in South Korea every year. This year they celebrated with a play about the Korean nurses and miners who traveled to Germany starting in the 1960s. The performance brought together local high-school youths enrolled i
Sept. 22, 2013
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New Zealand showcases nation as study destination
New Zealand Embassy and Tertiary Education officials and Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce pitched the Asia-Pacific nation as place to study at the 2013 New Zealand Education Fair at COEX in southern Seoul on Sept. 14-15. The fair supported the embassy’s “Study in New Zealand” campaign, and more than 30 New Zealand institutions from various areas of education were represented at the two-day fair. “There’s nothing quite like this sort of face-to-face interaction to give students and the
Sept. 22, 2013
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Malaysia invites Korean buyers to trade fair
The Malaysian Embassy’s trade and investment center is inviting Korean companies to register for INTRADE 2013, a trade fair to take place in Kuala Lumpur from Nov. 24-28, to meet prospective business partners from both developed and emerging economic sectors.Korean companies that participate in INTRADE 2013, the seventh International Trade Malaysia, can be matched with prospective Malaysian partners in one-on-one meetings during the trade fair, according to the embassy. INTRADE 2013 will focus o
Sept. 22, 2013
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[Photo News] Kyrgyz Independence Day
Sept. 22, 2013
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U.S. museum to return Joseon Dynasty seal to S. Korea
A U.S. museum has decided to return a seal used by a queen of Korea's Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) after confirming it was stolen by an American soldier during the 1950-53 Korean War, a South Korean lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. An Min-suk of the main opposition Democratic Party said officials at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expressed their intention to return the artifact to South Korea and issued a statement confirming the decision. "Our persistent efforts to collect evidence and demand (
Sept. 20, 2013
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N.K., Chinese nuke envoys discuss six-party talks
BEIJING (Yonhap News) ― Chief nuclear envoys from North Korea and China held talks in Beijing and shared “in-depth views” on ways to resume the six-party talks on ending the Norths’ nuclear weapons program, China’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. A delegation headed by North Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan arrived in Beijing on Monday, nearly three weeks after Kim held talks in Pyongyang with his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei. The North Korean delegation included Pyongyang’s chief
Sept. 17, 2013
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Park taps ex-lawmaker as secretary for political affairs
President Park Geun-hye has appointed a former ruling party lawmaker as her new secretary for political affairs, an official said Tuesday.Joo Kwang-deok, 53, a former prosecutor and a member of the previous National Assembly, began his new job on Monday, the official said on condition of anonymity.Joo succeeded Kim Seon-dong, who left the post in a reshuffle of the top office late last month.His immediate boss is senior political affairs secretary Park Joon-woo, a former career diplomat who serv
Sept. 17, 2013
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[Graphic News] Nonimmigrant entries to U.S. increase
More than 1.5 million South Koreans entered the U.S. as visitors for the first time while Mexicans topped the list of nonimmigant entries into the U.S. California (19 percent), Florida (13 percent), Texas (13 percent) and New York (13 percent) were the most frequented destinations by visitors.
Sept. 16, 2013
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Seoul urges Tokyo to stick to its peace constitution
South Korea called on Japan Monday to comply with the basic ideology of its peace-promoting constitution as Tokyo is making legal efforts to beef up its military might.Japan is moving to amend its post-war constitution in order to strengthen its military, whose capacity is now confined mainly to self-defense activities. The pacifist constitution, written after the country’s defeat in World War II, prohibits Japan’s rearmament as well as the deployment of its forces abroad.“We are repeatedly dema
Sept. 16, 2013
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Tension flares with Japan over Korea’s fisheries import ban
The Japanese government is moving to protest South Korea’s ban on all fisheries products from Fukushima and adjacent regions for fear of radioactive exposure, posing another strain on the bilateral relations already frayed by historical rows. A high-ranking official at Japan’s Fisheries Agency is set to visit South Korea on Monday in an apparent move to pressure Seoul into lifting the import ban, reports said.Kenji Kagawa, director-general of Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, will requ
Sept. 15, 2013
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International conference meets for peace
A group of international leaders in peace building and education from two dozen countries and four continents, as well as high-level Korean diplomats, convened here on Monday to discuss ways to enhance international understanding and create a culture of peace in the region. While North Korea appears to be restarting its program to process weapons-grade plutonium, and China, South Korea and Japan quarrel endlessly over history and territory, United Nations and foreign affairs officials met to dis
Sept. 15, 2013
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Southeast ASEAN ambassadors kick off furniture fair
Envoys from half a dozen Southeast Asian nations and the ASEAN-Korea Center kicked off the opening of an international furniture fair to showcase furnishings from the Southeast Asian region at the Korea International Exhibition Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on Wednesday.A dozen Southeast Asian envoys, including Thai Ambassador to South Korea Kittiphong na Ranong, as well as ASEAN Korea Center General Secretary Chung Hae-moon, opened the five-day Korea International Furniture and Interior F
Sept. 15, 2013
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African envoys convene with politicians at National Assembly
Some three dozen ambassadors and heads of foreign diplomatic missions here in South Korea convened for a day-long forum on the nation’s ties with Africa in the Memorial Hall at the National Assembly on Friday. Diplomatic representatives of all 17 African nations with embassy-level ties here participated along with many others from the foreign diplomatic community in the “National Assembly Forum for Africa’s New Era” which sought to promote bilateral ties between the African region and South Kore
Sept. 15, 2013
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British Embassy, Seoul City lock horns over property
The Seoul city government and Junggu District Office have complained that the British Embassy is illegally blocking the entrance to an alley adjacent to Deoksugung Palace.The alley occupies a narrow kilometer-long sliver between a wall of the British Embassy and a wall of the northeast corner of the historic palace in the Jeong-dong neighborhood of downtown Seoul.The British Embassy here said that it has been leasing the area since the 1950s, and an embassy spokesperson expressed irritation that
Sept. 15, 2013
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Brazil-Korea ties buoyed on Independence Day
The past five years have seen a quantitative leap forward in the relationship between South Korea and South America’s largest and most populous country, Brazil. The country’s top diplomatic representative here for more than four years, Ambassador Edmundo Fujita, oversaw much of that change.In fact, through the 2000s and over the course of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration, Brazilian exports jumped fourfold and its imports as many as eight times over. But it wa
Sept. 15, 2013
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S. Korea, U.S. not sending gov't officials to 6-way meeting in China
Effectively spurning one of China's initiatives aimed at reviving multilateral talks with North Korea, South Korea and the United States have decided not to send government officials to a six-nation meeting to be held later this month, diplomatic sources here said Thursday."Given North Korea's attitude and the current mood, we are not in a stage yet for a gathering of government officials from the parties involved in the six-way talks," a source said.China has offered an informal meeting of gove
Sept. 13, 2013
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[Photo News] Nuclear envoys
Sept. 10, 2013