SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans believe an inter-Korean summit at the Beijing Winter Olympics, slated for February, will not be possible, a survey showed Friday. According to the survey on 1,000 adults by the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council on Nov. 20 and 21, 53.9 percent said an inter-Korean [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Moon Chung-in, the Special Advisor to South Korean President Moon Jae-in for Foreign Affairs and National Security, said yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s promise to visit Seoul was a single-handed decision made by Kim. Speaking at a briefing held at the press center at Pyongyang’s Koryo Hotel, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a vast amount of expensive pine mushrooms to South Korea as a gift for President Moon Jae-in, Moon’s top press secretary said Thursday. The special gift arrived in South Korea earlier in the day, well before Moon returned from the North after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Pyongyang naengmyeon, a popular cold noodle dish, once again shared the spotlight during the inter-Korean summit currently taking place in Pyongyang. The dish garnered significant media attention at the previous summit at Panmunjom in April, when North Korean officials brought a noodle making machine with them. Yesterday, President Moon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jae-yong, the Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics, was one of the top corporate leaders to be included on the list of people invited to the inter-Korean summit to be held in Pyongyang. On a list released by the Blue House yesterday, the nation’s leading business leaders including Chey [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Blue House announced on September 14 it had launched a new edition of the Inter-Korean Summit webpage (www.koreasummit.kr) to deliver news of the upcoming talks scheduled for September 18. Based on the online platform that was used for the first Inter-Korean Summit on April 27, the Blue House [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean retailers are basking in brisk sales of traditional alcoholic beverages after two famous brands were served at the dinner for last month’s historic summit, industry sources said Thursday. The leaders of South and North Korea enjoyed the two alcoholic drinks — “munbaeju,” a distilled liquor that originated [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s been announced that South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be slurping up cold noodles made by an exceptional cook from Pyongyang in their banquet later in the evening as part of Friday’s historic summit. But some South Koreans were hours ahead of them as they scrambled [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans believe the inter-Korean summit this Friday could have a positive impact on the relationship between the two Koreas. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Press Foundation, around 54 percent said that inter-Korean relations will improve following the much anticipated inter-Korean summit this [...]
“It’s really difficult to give a generous assessment. I’ve seen people give D’s, but strictly speaking, it should be an F.” “The economy is in a crisis, and the ruined livelihoods of ordinary citizens in particular must be tackled at once. It’s extremely important for the president and the leader of the opposition party to [...]