SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A new front-line barracks of the United Nations Command (UNC) Security Battalion has been named after two U.S. Army officers who were killed in a 1976 axe incident as a tribute their sacrifices, the command said Tuesday. Major Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett were killed by North [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The two Koreas and the United Nations Command joined hands to repair a typhoon-damaged building at the truce village of Panmunjom earlier this month in the first such joint work since the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, officials said Monday. From Sept. 12-14, the three sides jointly [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A new Catholic church will open this week in the Joint Security Area (JSA) on the inter-Korean border, the Military Ordinariate of Korea said Tuesday. The ordinariate will hold a Mass at the new JSA church in the truce village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, Wednesday to [...]
PANMUNJOM, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Civilian tours to the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom resumed Wednesday, with access expanded to previously off-limits points, including a bridge that President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walked along during their first summit last year. The resumption came around six months after the popular tours [...]
PANMUNJOM/GOYANG, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed sincere efforts to make progress at their bilateral summit Friday in the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom, which Moon said now symbolizes peace, instead of division. The historic summit began after the leaders met for the first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – There are no zombies in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), but Ukrainian-born actress Milla Jovovich decided to pay a visit anyway. Jovovich was in South Korea promoting her upcoming film Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the final installment of the zombie film series, which is scheduled for release here on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It seems like a breath of nostalgic wind is blowing on the silver screen this fall, as movies that had long faded away from memory have been re-released. The films have not been re-released as marketing tools for upcoming films from the same directors. Rather, films that have been [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Daeseong-dong village, located only 400 meters south of the heavily fortified Military Demarcation Line dividing North and South Korea, is the only village where civilians can reside within the de-militarized zone (DMZ) in South Korea. According to the truce that ended the three-year long Korean War (1950-1953), two villages, one in the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey found more than 30 endangered animal species within the military demarcation line, including the Siberian musk deer, long-tailed goral, and Eurasian otter. The Ministry of Environment and the National Institute of Environmental Research said on July 16 they conducted last year a joint investigation in [...]