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Seoul blanketed by heaviest Nov. snow, with more expected
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NewJeans to terminate contract with Ador
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NewJeans terminates contract with Ador, embarks on new journey
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Korean Air gets European nod to become Northeast Asia’s largest airline
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Seoul snowfall now third heaviest on record
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Heavy snow of up to 40 cm blankets Seoul for 2nd day
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Chaos unfolds as rare November snowstorm grips Korea for 2nd day
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BOK makes surprise 2nd rate cut to boost growth
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‘VCHA, Katseye and Dear Alice are not K-pop groups,’ industry experts say
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Korea's birthrate shows signs of recovery
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Museum awarded for aiding Korea-Kenya understanding
The Kenyan Ambassador to South Korea presented a plaque of appreciation to the CEO of the Multiculture Museum for the work he is doing in promoting mutual understanding between South Korea and Kenya and for promoting Swahili, the East African country’s official language, in Seoul on April 11.Kenyan Ambassador to South Korea Ngovi Kitau presented the plaque to Kim Yun-tae, CEO and president of the Multiculture Museum, at the museum in Seogyo-dong, Seoul.“He has been doing an excellent job in prom
April 20, 2014
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Slovakia urges more Korean travelers to visit
Slovakia is perhaps best known here as a hub for South Korea manufacturing and a platform for global companies to sell cars throughout the European Union.Less known in South Korea is that it has 1,500 mineral springs to enjoy and relax at, 900 caves to explore and over 500 castles and manor houses to visit. The country of 5.5 million people possesses a rich tradition of tourism and hospitality at spa resort towns, said Slovakian Ambassador Dusan Bella during a small promotional event at the chan
April 20, 2014
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MIKTA to raise ‘middle power voice’
On the eve of an enormous meeting of diplomats from about 100 nations in Mexico City last week to discuss development assistance and aid to poor countries, a small band of foreign ministers quietly got together to brainstorm how to increase their collective voice within multilateral organizations.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and the top diplomats of four other “middle-power” G20 members met in Mexico City on April 13-14 to set the parameters and goals of a new consultative group. They also agre
April 20, 2014
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Hungary to mark anniversary with seminar at HUFS
Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Gabor will speak about bilateral relations between his country and South Korea during a conference at Hankuk University of Foreign studies on April 29.The daylong conference will underscore the close ties between South Korea and Hungary as one of many events planned this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations.HUFS President Kim In-chul and Kim Tae-hwan, president of the Korean-Hungarian Friendship Association, will also give welcoming speeches t
April 20, 2014
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Envoy aims to bring back Bulgarian wines
The Bulgarian ambassador here has his mind set on bringing wines from his country back to South Korea in a big way. Bulgarian Ambassador to South Korea Petar Andonov hosted local importers, distributors, foreign envoys and other VIPs for a tasting of 17 wines from the Castra Rubra and Telish wineries at the chancery on Wednesday.“I will not deny my ambition to teach Korean people more about the qualities of Bulgarian wine because I am sure they will really like it,” Andonov said. Although Bulgar
April 20, 2014
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Fair to highlight Southeast Asian interior design
Envoys from about a half a dozen Southeast Asian nations and the ASEAN-Korea Center will kick off an international furniture fair showcasing items from Southeast Asia. The Seoul Furniture and Home Living Fair 2014 will kick off Thursday and continue until April 27 in Hall 4 at the Korea International Exhibition Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province.ASEAN Korea Center General Secretary Chung Hae-moon is expected to join with other Southeast Asian envoys in kicking off the event this Thursday.A slew
April 20, 2014
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Park, Obama likely to meet April 25
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit South Korea next week for talks with President Park Geun-hye on the alliance between the two countries, North Korea and its nuclear program, and other regional and global issues, both sides announced.Obama will arrive on April 25 for a two-day visit, Seoul’s presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said. It will be Obama’s first trip to Seoul since Park took office last year. Park made a state visit to Washington last year, and the two leaders have since met o
April 15, 2014
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S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sex slavery this week
South Korea and Japan will hold high-level talks in Seoul this week on the latter's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, with attention focused on Tokyo's stance on the emotive issue, officials said Tuesday.The director general-level meeting, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, will be the first venue reserved for addressing the wartime atrocity, which remains a cause of frayed bilateral ties.Historians say up to 200,000 women, mainly from Korea and China, were coerced into sexual servitud
April 15, 2014
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Obama to visit S. Korea next week
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit South Korea next week for talks with PresidentPark Geun-hye on the alliance between the two countries, North Korea and its nuclear program, and other regional and global issues, both sides announced.Obama will arrive on April 25 for a two-day visit, Seoul's presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said. It will be Obama's first trip to Seoul since Park took office last year. Park made a state visit to Washington last year, and the two leaders have since met on
April 15, 2014
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Germany awards professors for boosting culture, research ties
German Ambassador to South Korea Rolf Mafael presented two Korean professors with awards in Seoul on Thursday for their efforts in developing cooperation in scientific research and academic scholarship, and for facilitating the study of German language here in South Korea.Shin Yoo-chul, director of the Law Research Institute at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, and Kim Yoon-su, who served as president of Chonnam National University from 2008 to 2012, were each awarded an Order of Merit o
April 14, 2014
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Foreign minister’s visit highlights progress in Korea-Portugal ties
South Korea and Portugal ratcheted up bilateral economic and political ties during a five-day visit to Seoul by the European nation’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Rui Chancerelle de Machete, which included a meeting with Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.The officials discussed President Park Geun-hye’s policy on inter-Korean relations, the situation in Ukraine and an array of bilateral issues ranging from cooperation in multilateral organizations to possible future meet-ups. The two sides also signe
April 13, 2014
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Ambassadors learn Korean art of calligraphy
A handful of foreign ambassadors got a taste of “Seoye,” the art of Korean calligraphy, during the Corea Image Communication Institute’s fifth meet-up this session at Institut Francais on Tuesday.Seoye is an art form that combines the potency of written language with the emotional immediacy of a picture, and dates back to as early as the seventh century on the Korean Peninsula. The envoys ― French Ambassador Jerome Pasquier, Austrian Ambassador Elisabeth Bertagnoli, Irish Ambassador Aingeal O’Do
April 13, 2014
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Fun, food and fund-raising at SIWA’s ‘Sunset Safari’
The Seoul International Women’s Association’s “Sunset Safari” charity gala this year kicked off with a splashy cocktail hour and, of course, all the fun, food and friendship that accompany the largest expatriate women’s organization’s annual charity event at the Conrad Hotel in Yeouido, Seoul, on Saturday.The throng of glittery cocktail gowns and black bowties were all the more impressive in that every aspect of the event was made possible through volunteers, as well as the uncanny organizationa
April 13, 2014
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Russia celebrates life of singer Lyudmila Nam
The Russian embassy celebrated with a concert on Friday the life of a renowned Russian mezzo-soprano who, for many Koreans here, came to represent the lives of so-called Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans mostly from Central Asia.Lyudmila Nam was born in Kazakhstan in 1947. She died in 2007 at age 60. At the peak of her career she performed as a soloist for the world-famous Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She also contributed to South Korean-Russian diplomatic relations with her performance at the Sejong Ce
April 13, 2014
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Envoys post blog on Irish president’s historic U.K. visit
To celebrate a diplomatic achievement realized by their respective countries, the ambassadors of Britain and Ireland did something special: They shared blogging duties.After all, what better way, in the age of Twitter and Facebook, to celebrate the historic visit of Irish President Michael D. Higgins to the U.K., the first ever by an Irish president?Irish Ambassador to South Korea Aingeal O’Donoghue and British Ambassador to South Korea Scott Wightman posted a joint blog on the historic visit, w
April 13, 2014
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Korea, Japan to hold talks on sex slavery Wednesday
Seoul and Tokyo plan to hold director general-level talks on Wednesday on the long-festering issue of Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, the Foreign Ministry here said Sunday. The consultations will mark an attempt by the two sides, with pressure from Washington, to mend fences eroded by a series of revisionist moves by Japanese officials and politicians ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s planned visit next week. The upcoming meeting, the first of its kind since
April 13, 2014
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Seoul criticizes Japanese minister‘s visit to Yasukuni shrine
South Korea criticized Japan’s internal affairs minister Saturday for visiting a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, calling it a “retrograde” action. Japan‘s minister for internal affairs, Yoshitaka Shindo, paid his respect at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during a local memorial ceremony there earlier in the day. Hours later, the South Korean foreign ministry issued a statement denouncing the visit. “The international community is jointly voicing criticism and worries about Japanese politician
April 13, 2014
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S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sex slavery
South Korea and Japan are likely to hold director general-level talks in Seoul next week to discuss the issue of Japan‘s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul government sources said Saturday. South Korea and Japan have been trying to set up a director-level meeting to try to resolve a series of pending issues arising from their shared history. Seoul reportedly wants the meeting, if held, to focus on the so-called “comfort women” issue while Japan insists that the topic should includ
April 13, 2014
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India offers visa on arrival for S. Korean tourists
India will offer visa-on-arrival (VOA) to South Korean tourists at its major airports for their convenience starting from next week, its embassy in Seoul said Thursday.The decision was made during South Korean President Park Geun-hye's state visit to India in January to improve ties between the two nations, the Indian embassy said. Korean visitors will be able to apply for a single entry tourist visa available for one month on arrival at eight airports for a fee of US$60 or the equivalent amount
April 10, 2014
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Korea’s overseas aid increases 9.2% in 2013
Korea doled out more than $1.74 billion in official development assistance in 2013, up about 9.2 percent from a year before, as the world’s 16th largest donor country, the Prime Minister’s Secretariat said Wednesday. Seoul spent $1.3 billion in bilateral aid, consisting of $800 million in grants and $500 million in low-interest loans, and $450 million in multilateral projects run by international organizations. Despite the increase, the sum represents a paltry 0.13 percent of gross national inco
April 9, 2014
