SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The newly established South Korean Embassy in Havana, Cuba, has launched its website as it has begun its activities in earnest, pledging to expand consular services and seek bilateral cooperation with the host country. South Korea opened its embassy in Cuba last month, a year after the two countries [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Cuba are at a “beginning point” where the two countries have much to learn about each other’s “realities,” the top Cuban envoy to Seoul has said, following the establishment of their diplomatic relations almost a year ago. Cuban Ambassador to South Korea Claudio Monzon Baeza made [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Tigers third baseman Kim Do-yeong authored a historic season in his domestic league this year. On Thursday in Taipei, Kim put on a show in front of an international audience, helping the South Korean national team to its first win at the ongoing World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stressed the importance of bilateral relations with Cuba in a message, widely seen as an effort to strengthen their long-standing ties, despite a setback over South Korea’s recent establishment of diplomatic relations with Havana. Kim had conveyed cordial greetings to Cuban President Miguel [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea established diplomatic relations with Cuba on Wednesday, its mission to the United Nations said, in a surprise announcement that could pose a setback to North Korea that has long boasted brotherly ties with the Latin American country. In New York, the two countries’ representatives to the United [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has given no reaction yet to South Korea’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the surprise announcement is a blow to Pyongyang that has long boasted brotherly ties with the Caribbean nation. South Korea forged diplomatic ties with Cuba on Wednesday (New York time), making Cuba [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Cuba have recently held high-level consultations to discuss the strengthening of exchanges despite their lack of formal diplomatic ties, according to Seoul’s foreign ministry Tuesday. The meeting between Foreign Minister Park Jin and Cuba’s deputy foreign minister was held last month on the occasion of Park’svisit [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — In Cuba, a country that has yet to establish diplomatic relations with South Korea, local youth participated in the country’s first Korean speaking contest to talk about their dreams. Hosted by My Dream International Foundation, the contest took place at a local Korean cultural center in Havana last week. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the few countries that have yet to establish diplomatic ties with South Korea, Cuba hosted a Korean culture festival amid the growing popularity of K-pop and Korean dramas. The Korean Cultural Center in Mexico held the Korean Culture Promotion Festival in Havana on Friday (local time). The event, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea and Cuba reaffirmed their friendly ties as a senior North Korean official visited Havana to attend Fidel Castro’s memorial service, Pyongyang’s media said Tuesday. Choe Ryong-hae, a vice chairman of the ruling party’s central committee, met with Cuba’s leader Raul Castro on Saturday during his visit to [...]