SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) — Red Velvet will sing two of its latest hits, “Red Flavor” and “Bad Boy,” during two rare performances by a South Korean troupe in Pyongyang next week, sources well informed of the shows said Monday. They said the girl group submitted a list of five or more songs to a [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A six-member South Korean advance team left for North Korea on Thursday to check venues for a South Korean art troupe’s performances planned in Pyongyang in early April ahead of an inter-Korean summit. The team of government officials and experts boarded a North Korean flight in Beijing on Thursday [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The two Koreas’ joint development of North Korean major mines, if implemented, is expected to create more than 90,000 jobs in the two Koreas annually, a report by a private think tank showed Sunday. The Seoul-based North Korea Resource Institute issued a report on the prospect of potential inter-Korean [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Oh Joon, former South Korean Ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday he believes North Korea’s participation in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics can be an opportunity to improve the rights of disabled people. Oh, who served as South Korean representative to the U.N. from 2013 to 2016, made his remarks at the Korea Paralympic Committee International [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has been providing Syria with materials that can be used to manufacture chemical weapons, according to multiple news reports Wednesday based on a U.N. probe. The supplies include acid-resistant tiles, valves and thermometers, the New York Times said. It cited an unreleased document compiled by the U.N. [...]
GANGNEUNG, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea women’s ice hockey players on Monday bid a teary farewell to their North Korean teammates on the unified Korean team for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, a day after they marched in together at the closing ceremony. The historic joint hockey team — the first unified Korean squad [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies that operated factories at the now-shuttered joint industrial park in North Korea will ask the Seoul government next week to travel to the border city of Kaesong to inspect their facilities, a private task force representing the firms said Friday. They will submit the application to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry affirmed Tuesday that the country’s troops will conduct combined command-post drills with the United States this year despite Olympics-driven rapprochement with North Korea. The allies will hold the Key Resolve (KR) and the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercises in order to develop their so-called 4D [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry said Tuesday that it has no information about speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister is pregnant with her second child. Such speculation arose as her belly covered by a coat appeared to protrude when she visited South Korea from Feb. 9-11 as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday approved a plan to use a government fund to support North Korea’s participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, officials said. The South and North Exchange and Cooperation Promotion Council passed $2.64 million (2.86 billion won) in spending from the government budget for inter-Korean cooperation to [...]