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Seoul to open inter-Korean liaison office as planned: Foreign Ministry

South Korea will push to open an inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong as scheduled, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday, amid concerns that the opening of the liaison office could violate sancti...

Aug 23, 2018
Foreign Policy
[Herald Interview] ‘Forging stronger ties in diverse sectors with the Philippines’

Korean Ambassador to Philippines Han Dong-man aims to improve security for Koreans in the Philippines

Aug 20, 2018
Foreign Policy
Korea, China to resume joint fishing patrol in Oct.

Korea and China will resume their joint patrols on illegal fishing activities in the Yellow Sea in October, two years after a deadly clash between Korean authorities and Chinese fishermen, Seoul's oc...

Aug 17, 2018
Foreign Policy
Korea-US trade deal termination to cost American consumers $4.6 b annually: study

WASHINGTON -- Terminating the free trade agreement between Korea and the United States would cost American consumers $4.6 billion annually, a study showed Thursday. The report by the National Founda...

Aug 17, 2018
Foreign Policy
Can railway cooperation materialize?

President Moon Jae-in’s proposal to set up an East Asian railroad community is not likely to gain steam without significant progress in talks between North Korea and the US over denuclearization, exp...

Aug 16, 2018
Foreign Policy
Korean hostage in Libya in good health: envoy

A South Korean man who was kidnapped last month by an unidentified armed group in Libya remains in good health, a diplomat here said Thursday after visiting the country to seek the release of the hos...

Aug 16, 2018
Foreign Policy
Korea voices ‘deep’ regret over Abe’s offering to Yasukuni shrine

South Korea expressed deep regret Wednesday over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s sending of a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine. Marking the 73rd anniversary of Japan’s d...

Aug 15, 2018
Foreign Policy
Young South Koreans indifferent, skeptical toward North Korea

Despite North Korea’s promise to denuclearize and public image makeover, Jo Sun-keun, 23, who has grown up under threat from North Korea’s occasional nuclear and missile tests, does not think the Nor...

Aug 15, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon says 'comfort women' issue cannot be resolved diplomatically

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday sought to urge Japan to sincerely apologize to Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military decades ago, saying the issue cannot be ...

Aug 14, 2018
Foreign Policy
Kang briefs Pompeo on results of inter-Korean talks

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Tuesday explained to her US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, the results of this week's cross-border talks on arranging an inter-Korean summit, her ministry ...

Aug 14, 2018
Foreign Policy
Pompeo congratulates S. Korea on Liberation Day

WASHINGTON -- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated South Korea on Monday ahead of a key national holiday marking its liberation from Japanese colonial rule. In a statement, Pompeo said he...

Aug 14, 2018
Foreign Policy
Female diplomat picked as ambassador to UK

A female diplomat was tapped as Korea’s ambassador to the United Kingdom last week, becoming the country’s first female career diplomat to lead one of the major diplomatic missions abroad. The Minis...

Aug 13, 2018
Foreign Policy
‘Too early for declaring end to the Korean War’: US ambassador

US Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris said Monday that it is still too early to consider declaring an end to the Korean War. The retired admiral stressed that the US and North Korea have only be...

Aug 13, 2018
Foreign Policy
Remains of 35 Korean victims of Japan's forced labor to be repatriated

TOKYO -- A Japanese Buddhist temple has conducted a memorial for 35 sets of remains belonging to Korean people brought to Japan to work for its factories and military during World War II before they ...

Aug 13, 2018
Foreign Policy
ASEAN students strive to become drivers of global digitalization

70 students learn the implications of digitalization in ASEAN-Korea Centre youth workshop

Aug 12, 2018
Foreign Policy

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