SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Koreans are also interested in luxuries instead of necessities when it comes to dining culture, according to a recent exhibition. From November 11 to 14, the Pyongyang International Agriculture and Foodstuff Exhibition took place at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, shedding insight on food trends among North Koreans. According [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday that it will reduce its number of troops to 500,000 by 2022 in the latest move to tackle looming demographic challenges as Asia’s fourth-largest economy faces a rapidly aging population. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki also said South Korea will reform the country’s military in a [...]
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — An offspring of a pair of Pungsan-breed dogs gifted to South Korean President Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is growing healthily on an island just south of the inter-Korean sea border, the Incheon municipal government said Monday. The white female puppy, named Haetnim, is one [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean nationality is one of the least-valued citizenships in the world, a London-based citizenship consulting firm said in its Quality of Nationality Index report. According to the report from Henley & Partners, North Korea ranks 141st among 159 countries for 2018, with a quality of nationality score of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight of nine North Korean defectors suspected of being exposed to radiation came from the vicinity of the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday, citing data from a government institution. A total of 40 defectors were tested for radiation exposure from 2017 to last year [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are less supportive of unification with North Korea than last year, a survey showed Tuesday, amid the protracted impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization negotiations. According to the survey of 1,200 adults commissioned by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, 53 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Koreans view the need for inter-Korean unification negatively than two years ago, while showing an increasing tendency to treat North Korea as a country to cooperate with, a survey conducted by a state-run think tank showed Wednesday. According to the 2018 survey by the Korea Institute for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – About 70 percent of South Koreans think that a trip to the South by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a summit with Southeast Asian leaders would have a positive impact on denuclearization talks and inter-Korean relations, a survey showed Thursday. On Tuesday, the country’s spy agency raised the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The two Koreas and the United Nations Command joined hands to repair a typhoon-damaged building at the truce village of Panmunjom earlier this month in the first such joint work since the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, officials said Monday. From Sept. 12-14, the three sides jointly [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An architectural exhibition taking place in Seoul will offer glimpses into life in the North Korean capital through media art and an imaginary supermarket selling goods from both sides of Korea. The exhibition, “Daily Pyongyang,” under way at the Seoul Hall of Urbanism and Architecture near City Hall, is [...]