BEIJING, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A restaurant in Beijing visited by South Korean President Moon Jae-in has rolled out a dish set named after the leader, Chinese social media platform Weibo showed Monday. The Yonghe Xianjiang restaurant, where Moon and his wife had breakfast on Thursday during his four-day state visit, started to sell [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean and the Chinese host cities of the next two Winter Olympics reached a cooperative agreement Thursday to ensure the success of their events. Lee Hee-beom, the top organizer for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and Cai Qi, his counterpart for Beijing 2022, signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU) on mutual exchange and cooperation in a ceremony at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been named a global rethinker by Foreign Policy, a U.S. magazine, which cited his “forceful push for peace,” the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday. Moon was among dozens of global figures who, according to the prestigious magazine, “together found amazing ways [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena is due to arrive in Seoul on Tuesday for a summit with President Moon Jae-in, which South Korea hopes will move forward its drive to expand all-round cooperation with South Asian nations. Sirisena is the third foreign head of state to make a state [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Thursday offered consolation to people displaced by the latest earthquake in the southeastern city of Pohang, pledging all-out efforts to help all those affected by the quake. “I offer my word of consolation to residents of Pohang and surrounded areas affected by the quake,” the president said in a message [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in found himself at the center of attention after his speech at the Asian Business and Investment Summit in Manila, when he was beset by requests for selfies from excited attendees all around. Held at 2 p.m. at the Solaire Resort in Manila, Moon gave [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite news continuing to filter out about South Korea and China’s mending relationship post-THAAD disagreement, the political and business sectors are taking the lessons learned from an overreliance on China to heart by ramping up efforts to establish a foothold in ASEAN member countries, or what some in South [...]
DA NANG, Vietnam, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang where he was scheduled to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and a series of bilateral meetings with global leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. The annual APEC economic leaders’ summit was set [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — When President Moon Jae-in took office after his victory in the unprecedented presidential by-election in May, he was confronted with tough challenges ranging from social upheaval caused by his predecessor to heightened regional diplomatic and military tensions. One of the biggest issues confronting the chief executive was finding a [...]
JAKARTA, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidents of South Korea and Indonesia agreed Thursday to upgrade their relations to “special strategic partnership” to push forward all-compassing cooperation in economy, culture, politics and security issues. During their summit, Presidents Moon Jae-in and Joko Widodo also pledged efforts to sharply increase bilateral trade and diversify business [...]