SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Ji-na will attend an international conference on development financing in Spain next week, the foreign ministry said Friday. The fourth International Conference of Financing Development is set to take place in Seville, Spain, from next Monday through Thursday (local time), bringing together high-level representatives [...]
INCHEON, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Friday apprehended six American citizens who attempted to release plastic bottles containing rice, one dollar bills and the Bible into the sea near a restricted border area in an effort to send them to North Korea, officials said. The U.S. nationals in their 20s to 50s allegedly [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An envisioned summit between South Korean and Central Asian leaders has been postponed to 2026, a senior Seoul diplomat said Friday, citing the political fallout in South Korea following the failed martial law attempt by ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol. First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo confirmed the [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s advanced forensic science capabilities have significantly strengthened Mongolia’s criminal investigation system, culminating in the resolution of a years-old murder case and a sweeping upgrade of the nation’s forensic institutions. The National Forensic Service (NFS) of South Korea announced on Tuesday that it had successfully completed a multiyear [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean academic has publicly denounced what he calls “baseless and absurd” accusations by Chinese internet users who allege cultural appropriation in the new Netflix animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters, which has become a global hit. Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University and prominent advocate for [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Watching or distributing South Korean TV dramas or K-pop songs is being punished by execution by firing squad in North Korea, with one young man shot to death in public on such charges, North Korean defectors testified Wednesday. The testimonies were given during public sessions hosted by the U.N. [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch an educational exchange program inviting students and faculty members from major American universities starting next year to receive short-term training in shipbuilding engineering, Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday. The initiative comes as the two countries seek to deepen cooperation in the shipbuilding sector, which has [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a century after it was taken to Japan, a wooden building believed to be a royal shrine from the Joseon Dynasty has returned to its homeland—marking an unprecedented moment in Korea’s effort to reclaim its cultural heritage. The Korea Heritage Service (KHS) and the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Forty-five South Koreans, including one with U.S. nationality, have escaped Israel and safely arrived in neighboring Egypt, amid heightening tensions from the armed conflict between Israel and Iran, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. They passed through the border via a land route on Monday afternoon (local time) by a [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung on Monday instructed the presidential office and all ministries to be put under an emergency response system in order to address heightened tensions in the Middle East following U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. In his first meeting with senior presidential aides since taking office, [...]