SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will reopen its embassy in Kyiv shortly amid stabilizing situations in the Ukrainian capital, the foreign ministry said Friday. South Korean embassy officials were evacuated from Kyiv in mid-February and operated temporary offices in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Chernivtsi, and Romania. The Lviv mission was [...]
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, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreign embassy sent flowers of encouragement to medical staff continuously fighting on the frontlines against the coronavirus. The Embassy of the Netherlands in Seoul sent 1,000 tulips to medical staff at the Seoul Medical Center to express their gratitude and encouragement. Tulips is famously known as the national [...]
JEONJU, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in London, United Kingdom was transformed into a traditional hall of exhibitions for a variety of traditional fittings, craftworks, and mattresses. North Jeolla Province, in charge of the project, has been working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2015 to turn South Korean embassies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign workers walked a red carpet strewn with flowers at Incheon International Airport yesterday as employees from the Human Resources Development Service of Korea and the embassies of Thailand, and Vietnam cheered on. The ceremony was held for five workers who had completed the maximum duration of nine years [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tokyo’s top envoy to South Korea returned to Seoul Tuesday, nearly three months after he was called in home due to diplomatic friction over a girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. The Japanese government recalled Amb. Yasumasa Nagamine in January in protest [...]