“I decided to donate my medals to the people of South Korea, because … you rebuilt your country and what you’ve done, it truly touches me. (The donation) is just to show you about my appreciation about what you’ve done, and I sincerely hope that the future generation of South Korea will follow their forebears [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday it will seek to hold a variety of sports and cultural events with North Korea this year to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s colonial rule. South Korea plans to propose the creation of an ad hoc committee to the North to prepare [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean authorities are planning to make classrooms more English-friendly in order to prepare students to read English textbooks. According to the April 2nd issue of the North Korean educational report newspaper acquired by Yonhap News, an article says “the measure of introducing foreign languages in departmental studies will [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea expressed concerns Thursday that a campaign by dozens of foreign activists to walk across the heavily fortified inter-Korean border will increase tensions on the peninsula. About 30 female activists from around the world, including U.S. activist Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire from Ireland, [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korea observer has insisted that up to one million North Korean elites enjoy luxurious lives in Pyongyang under Kim Jung-un’s rule of the communist country. Park Sung-jo, an economics professor at the Free University of Berlin, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on April 8 that [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea now has a state-run online shopping mall that sells various goods, medicines and food items, following the country’s recent efforts to develop its IT infrastructure. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 1, the online retail site is called ‘Okryoo.’ Customers can pay using [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called on North Korea on Friday to immediately release two of its nationals detained in the communist country on espionage charges. North Korea announced that it has arrested the two South Korean men on charges of espionage for the South’s state spy agency. “It’s very regrettable that the [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A leading anti-North Korean activist vowed Tuesday to continue his campaign to send leaflets critical of the communist country across the border despite bitter military threats from the North. “Balloons (carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets) that convey news from the outside are a kind of media to North Koreans, which should [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang on February 4 and rebuked factory personnel over the quality of the factory’s cosmetic products. Kim admonished employees over the poor quality of the North Korean products compared to foreign cosmetics, saying that “foreign eyeliners and mascaras stay intact even [...]
“Well, I find it curious that a third country would presume to make strong representations about a security system that has not been put in place and that is still a matter of theory.” “Our military authorities have a responsibility to consider systems that can protect U.S. and Korean citizens from Pyongyang’s missile threat.” – [...]