SUWON, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean border province will push to apply for the inclusion of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the list of the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage, officials said Sunday. The government of Gyeonggi Province, which borders with North Korea, said it plans to present an application for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 500,000 people will create a “human chain” along the 500-kilometer Demilitarized Zone bisecting South and North Korea in April to mark the first anniversary of an inter-Korean summit deal, a civic organization said Monday. During the summit on April 27 last year at the truce village of Panmunjom, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Public Administration and Safety announced on Sunday that it will develop hiking paths across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) for hikers and tourists. Also known as South Korea’s Camino de Santiago, the new ‘DMZ way for unification’ will stretch 456 kilometers across ten cities and districts from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Koreas connected a 3 kilometer-long tactical road across the Military Demarcation Line inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Thursday to support a joint project to excavate Korean War remains at a notorious battle site. The unpaved road was established at Arrowhead Ridge, or Hill 281, in Cheorwon, 90 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The two Koreas will connect a road across the military demarcation line inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) this week to support a joint project to excavate Korean War remains at a notorious battle site, a government source in Seoul said Tuesday. On Thursday, the two sides will connect the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South and North Korea raised yellow flags at 11 guard posts each along their heavily fortified border on Sunday in a first step toward dismantling the posts under a military agreement reached as part of September’s summit. The two sides hoisted the 4-meter by 3-meter flag at each of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The two Koreas and the U.S.-led U.N Command (UNC) on Thursday wrapped up the process of disarming the Joint Security Area in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul’s defense ministry said. As of 1 p.m., they completed the work of withdrawing military posts, armed troops and firearms from the JSA [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea found two sets of Korean War remains for the first time during its demining work in a notorious battle site inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) this week, Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday. On Wednesday, the ministry’s Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification retrieved the remains from Arrowhead [...]
PAJU, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province announced on Monday that the new Dora Observatory, the first of its kind to be built inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ), is now open to visitors. The observatory allows visitors to take a closer look at major North Korean installations along the border, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold a cultural festival at a former U.S. army base near the inter-Korean border this weekend as part of efforts to transform the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into a hub of peace-themed tourism, organizers said Monday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the [...]