SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States is considering using American military bases in South Korea as one of the housing sites for evacuees from Afghanistan, along with other overseas bases, including those in Japan, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon is “looking at American bases in Japan, Korea, Germany, Kosovo, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to temporarily close its embassy in Afghanistan and evacuated most of its diplomatic staff to a third country in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The decision came as the Taliban militant group reportedly entered the Afghan capital of Kabul and sought a [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Korea is presenting some 1,400 artifacts of ancient Afghanistan, including a gold crown from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern part of the country. “Ancient Afghanistan was an abridged edition of the world,” said a museum official. “The artifacts and their material groups show [...]