SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top diplomat said Thursday that there is a link between China and the worsening air pollution in South Korea, which officials here describe as tantamount to a disaster. “It’s true that there’s a cause (of fine dust) stemming from China,” Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told reporters as [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has rejected calls from South Korea to include content related to so-called ‘comfort women’ in school textbooks. The request from Seoul to include information about comfort women in government-approved public education guidelines was met with a cold shoulder, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported earlier this week. The South Korean delegation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top diplomat said Friday Seoul is working closely with the international community to make sure North Korea’s PyeongChang Olympic participation does not run afoul of international sanctions imposed on the North. “We are closely working with the United States and the United Nations Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea so that there should be no controversy regarding the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan’s foreign ministers had a telephone conversation Wednesday to discuss North Korea’s launch of a new, longer-range ballistic missile early in the day and how torespond to the provocation, the South Korean foreignministry said. In the 20-minute conversation that began at 4:40 p.m., South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha expressed “deep concern” over the North’s resumption of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top diplomat met with the head of the foreign affairs committee of the National People’s Congress of China on Wednesday and discussed bilateral ties and other issues of mutual concern, the foreign ministry in Seoul said the same day. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha held a luncheon meeting with Fu Ying in Beijing at which the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday promised South Korea’s continued development cooperation with African countries. “Beyond the political importance of Africa as a continent of more than a quarter of all sovereign countries in the world, Korea views Africa as a valuable partner in development and economic cooperation,” Kang said in her opening speech to the Korea-Africa Business [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The top diplomats of South Korea and Denmark “strongly” condemned North Korea’s continued provocations on Friday, calling for Pyongyang to “fully” and “completely” comply with multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Danish counterpart Anders Samuelsen emphasized those points in a joint press statement issued [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will accelerate its “leading” efforts to create an environment for the resumption of talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea, the country’s top diplomat said Thursday. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said that her ministry will work hard to encourage China and Russia to use their leverage on the [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea officially launched a task force (TF) to review an agreement with Japan reached in 2015 to settle a long-standing bilateral feud over Japan’s imperial-era mobilization of Korean women as sex workers, the foreign ministry said Monday. The TF is tasked with fact-finding and assessing the processes leading up [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea under the new Moon Jae-in administration plans to intensify its relationship with Islamic countries through public diplomacy and people-to-people exchanges, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Thursday in a meeting with Muslim ambassadors. “Korea began afresh with the inauguration of a new administration last month. My new government [...]