SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering allowing its people to travel to North Korea on an individual basis as part of efforts to move the stalled inter-Korean relations forward, but chances are low of the drive bearing fruit due to many intractable challenges, experts said Friday. On Tuesday, President Moon Jae-in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea began operations of a new spa resort in the country’s central region Friday, according to state media, as Pyongyang pushes to attract more foreign tourists in the face of global sanctions crippling its economy. The construction of the Yangdok spa resort in the North’s South Pyongan Province [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As North Korea continues to raise the stakes in inter-Korean relations, a South Korean film and television series depicting sweet romance among individuals from North and South Korea are being subjected to criticism for failing to take note of the current situation. “Ashfall,” a South Korean movie currently garnering [...]
BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of professors and students from Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s most prestigious institution of higher learning, visited a Berlin university on Sunday as part of academic exchanges amid international sanctions on the North. The group comprising two professors and 12 students of the Pyongyang school’s German [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Cho Kyung-ja (alias), a 33-year-old North Korean defector, is busy operating an espresso machine, preparing four cappuccinos, grinding, temping, frothing and sometimes wiping away beans that scatter here and there. As she lays the four cups down on a table, she shyly smiles as she says, “Excuse me. Here [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a recent chill in inter-Korean relations, more than seven out of 10 citizens living in Seoul still believe that South and North Korea should be unified, a survey showed Wednesday. According to an online poll of 2,000 citizens conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 74.2 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 3,000 South Koreans who had applied for reunions with their long-lost relatives in North Korea have died this year without having their wishes fulfilled, according to government data. A total of 3,147 South Koreans, registered as members of separated families since 1988, died from January to November this [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea brought in its first advanced high-altitude unmanned aircraft, Global Hawk, on Monday in a move expected to boost the country’s surveillance capabilities against North Korea, officials said. The RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) arrived at an Air Force base in Sacheon on the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Special forces of South Korea and the United States carried out regular combined drills last month at a South Korean air force base under the scenario of raiding an enemy camp and capturing an agent, apparently targeting North Korea. According to photos released by the U.S. military, the U.S.’ [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — If there are cows in South Korea, there are ostriches in North Korea, providing meat in addition to leather, bone and feathers. A North Korean propaganda outlet DPRK Today reported Sunday that an ostrich farm in Pyongyang uses ostrich by-products to produce a number of quality products. In particular, [...]