SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s elite Air Force aerobatic team, the Black Eagles, will not participate in this month’s Dubai Airshow after Japan refused to allow the team’s jets to refuel at one of its bases, citing recent training near the disputed Dokdo islets, military sources said Thursday. According to officials, the South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Singapore agreed Saturday to elevate their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership, pledging closer cooperation across security, technology, and economic sectors as both nations navigate rising geopolitical uncertainty. President Lee Jae Myung and Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced the upgrade following a summit at the presidential [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Several South Korean companies have reportedly canceled or postponed planned investments in the United States following the detention of hundreds of Korean workers at a Hyundai Motor–LG Energy Solution battery plant in Georgia earlier this year, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Citing multiple consultants and lawyers involved with Korean firms, [...]
GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States announced a finalized tariff agreement on Wednesday, ending months of contentious negotiations and signaling a deepening phase in their industrial partnership. President Lee Jae Myung and President Donald Trump confirmed the deal during talks held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – En route to Kuala Lumpur, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered a strikingly positive endorsement of South Korea’s ambitions to reclaim wartime operational control from Washington, signaling a shift in how the alliance conceives of leadership during a crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Speaking to reporters aboard his plane [...]
GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used a high-stakes summit in Gyeongju on Wednesday to push Washington toward a long-sought goal: the fuel needed to operate nuclear-powered submarines. Meeting U.S. President Donald Trump in the ancient capital, Lee argued that South Korea’s diesel-powered fleet no longer provides [...]
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth began a tour of the Indo-Pacific on Monday, a trip that unfolds like a map of American strategic anxieties: Hawaii, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam — and finally South Korea. His message is familiar, but increasingly urgent. The Pentagon says Hegseth intends to press [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – United States President Donald Trump has described North Korea as “sort of a nuclear power,” AFP reported Saturday, as he seeks to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his ongoing trip to Asia. Trump made the remarks aboard Air Force One en route to Asia, AFP said, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will turn the quiet, temple-dotted city of Gyeongju into a theater of global power politics. South Korea, long wedged between the gravitational pulls of Washington and Beijing, suddenly finds itself not as an observer, but as host—and potential broker—of an uneasy regional order. For [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — When Sanae Takaichi walked into Japan’s Diet chamber on Tuesday to become the country’s first female prime minister, the moment marked both a breakthrough and a question mark for East Asia’s uneasy diplomacy. In Seoul, officials were quick to strike a tone of optimism. “We will continue to closely communicate [...]