SEOUL, Aug.11 (Korea Bizwire) — On August 11, South Korea’s First Lady Kim Hye-kyung engaged in diplomatic “spouse diplomacy” with Ngo Phuong Lan, the wife of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, during her visit to Seoul. The two women, dressed in their respective national traditional attire, visited the National Museum of [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A special counsel team again raided the office of minor party leader Lee Jun-seok on Wednesday as part of its investigation into former first lady Kim Keon Hee’s alleged election meddling. Investigators from special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team searched the office of the New Reform Party (NRP) leader on [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung and first lady Kim Hea Kyung on Wednesday paid a visit to a hospital for people with leprosy on the remote island of Sorok and comforted patients there, the presidential office said. Lee encouraged people with leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, and pledged to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) proposed a special counsel bill on Monday to investigate whether President Yoon Suk Yeol committed treason and other violations during his short-lived declaration of martial law last week. Rep. Kim Yong-min, the DP’s deputy floor leader for policy, and Rep. Kim Seung-won submitted [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday that first lady Kim Keon Hee failed to “cold-heartedly reject” a visitor armed with a hidden camera, speaking for the first time on allegations she accepted a luxury handbag from the man in 2022. Yoon said in an interview with KBS TV that [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee has said she hopes to be a “K-culture salesperson” promoting Korean culture and art overseas, according to a recent interview with a U.S. media outlet. In the written interview with Artnet News, an online art journal, published Monday (local time), Kim also said she [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee on Thursday visited a school for the blind and congratulated new students on their first day of school. Kim visited the Seoul National School for the Blind to attend the entrance ceremony for some 40 new students. In congratulatory remarks, she talked about Saeromi, [...]
ZURICH, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee met with a sheikha of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and discussed cultural exchanges between the two countries, the presidential office said. A sheikha is a female member of a ruling Arab family, according to the office. Kim met with Sheikha Latifa bint [...]
BALI, Indonesia, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon-hee revisited a hospital in Phnom Penh to discuss ways to provide treatment for a Cambodian child with a congenital heart disease, the presidential office said Monday. Kim returned to Hebron Medical Center, which was established by a South Korean pediatrician and remains largely run [...]
PHNOM PENH, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon-hee visited the home of a Cambodian child with a heart disease Saturday and comforted the family, urging them not to give up under any circumstances, the presidential office said. The 14-year-old child has a congenital heart disease and was meant to be present the [...]