SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea set up a three-year plan to support North Korean defectors on Monday, including measures to help them secure stable jobs. The unification ministry said it approved a seven-point 2018-2020 plan to help refugees better adapt to South Korea. The plan seeks to provide stable jobs, help young [...]
PYONGYANG/SEOUL, April 2 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) – The schedule for another concert by a South Korean art troupe visiting Pyongyang has been fixed, Seoul officials said Monday. A 160-member South Korean art troupe, including 11 celebrated Korean pop musicians, plans to perform jointly with North Korean artists on Tuesday afternoon following a successful concert on Sunday. “It has been confirmed that the joint performance will begin at 4 p.m. (Pyongyang time),” a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed hope that South Korean musicians’ performances in Pyongyang could serve as an occasion to show the unity of the two Koreas, state media reported Monday. Kim made the remark as he watched a concert held by the South Korean art group on [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Joy, a member of K-pop act Red Velvet, will not perform at upcoming concerts in Pyongyang featuring South Korean artists due to scheduling conflicts with her TV show, the singer’s agency said Friday. “Due to Joy’s filming of the MBC TV drama ‘The Great Seducer,’ four members — Wendy, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean football officials arrived in South Korea on Thursday to attend a meeting on regional football issues.Four North Koreans, including East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) Vice President Han Un-gyong, landed at Gimhae International Airport in Busan after taking a flight via Beijing. This is the first time since [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. government will stop aid to any country involved in deals that can be instrumental to strengthening North Korea’s cyberattack capabilities, according to an appropriations bill, signed by President Donald Trump last week. The Omnibus Spending Bill stipulates that none of the U.S. government funds will be available [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) –Singapore has nullified work permits for all North Koreans in the country in line with the latest U.N. sanctions over its weapons programs, according to the sanctions committee. “Singapore has revoked the work passes of all nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea earning income in Singapore and will [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) — Red Velvet will sing two of its latest hits, “Red Flavor” and “Bad Boy,” during two rare performances by a South Korean troupe in Pyongyang next week, sources well informed of the shows said Monday. They said the girl group submitted a list of five or more songs to a [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A six-member South Korean advance team left for North Korea on Thursday to check venues for a South Korean art troupe’s performances planned in Pyongyang in early April ahead of an inter-Korean summit. The team of government officials and experts boarded a North Korean flight in Beijing on Thursday [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea agreed Tuesday to send a 160-member art troupe to Pyongyang for rare concerts in early April ahead of South and North Korea’s planned summit late next month. The South’s art group will visit the North’s capital from March 31 to April 3 for two performances, according to a joint statement adopted after inter-Korean talks at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The art troupe will [...]