SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans who have sought reunions with family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War have died, government data showed Friday. Among 133,353 South Koreans who have registered to be reunited with their long-lost loved ones in North Korea since 1988, 79,466, or 59.6 percent, [...]
SEOUL/PAJU, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A medley of Korean and Western classical and contemporary music brought a symbolic train station at the inter-Korean border to life Monday as South Korea held a live concert to celebrate the first anniversary of the last inter-Korean summit. The DMZ Peace Concert, the first of its kind, brought [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold a concert along the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Monday in celebration of the first anniversary of the Joint Pyongyang Declaration, adopted by the leaders of the two Koreas. The DMZ Peace Concert will open at Dorasan Station, just south of the border with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Six puppies of two dogs given to President Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a gift last year were distributed to local governments Friday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said. The North’s leader gifted the pair of Pungsan-breed dogs, one male named Songkang and a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A new Catholic church will open this week in the Joint Security Area (JSA) on the inter-Korean border, the Military Ordinariate of Korea said Tuesday. The ordinariate will hold a Mass at the new JSA church in the truce village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, Wednesday to [...]
SUWON, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — How different is life for North Korean students, who risked their lives to cross the border, compared to their South Korean counterparts? Twenty-one middle and high school students in Gyeonggi Province, each with their own stories, participated in a Career Design Camp that took place in Gwangju for three [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University will open a new graduate major in peace and unification studies that specializes in peace, unification, and North Korean society to foster experts that can effectively address unification as well as post-unification outcomes. The university is planning to create a master’s course on peace and unification [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A tour program to North Korea’s scenic Mount Kumgang will kick off later this month, a North Korean propaganda outlet said, as the impoverished country seeks to expand its tourism industry in the face of global sanctions crippling its economy. DPRK Today said in an article on Sunday that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan exported some strategic items and luxury goods to North Korea over the past several years in violation of international sanctions, U.N. reports have shown. According to 10 reports that the U.N. panel of experts wrote between 2010 and 2019, there have been multiple cases where restricted items, including [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An opposition lawmaker claimed Thursday he has identified data from a Japanese agency showing that Japanese firms allegedly smuggled strategic items to North Korea that include hydrogen fluoride, a material subject to Tokyo’s export curbs on South Korea. The revelation came in an apparent bid to counter the suspicion [...]