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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A visit to South Korea’s heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was picked as the most popular tour destination among foreign visitors, a study showed Wednesday. According to the study by the Korea Tourism Organization, a half-day visit to the DMZ area was the most popular tour picked by foreigners [...]
SEOUL/PAJU, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean art troupe returned home Monday after holding two rare performances in South Korea in celebration of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Samjiyon Orchestra crossed the military demarcation line at 11:25 a.m. to return home after a seven-day stay in the South, according to a pool report. [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Speculation is growing over Pyongyang’s true intentions behind the decision to send top political figures to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. North Korea’s de facto chief of state Kim Yong-nam is set to visit South Korea as part of the country’s Winter Olympics delegation, becoming one of the most prominent political [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has asked South Korea to supply fuel to its ship that carried the North’s art troupe to the South a day earlier as the ferry will be used for its lodging, Seoul’s unification ministry said Wednesday. The Samjiyon art troupe traveled to the South by ferry Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of patients infected with H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, in North Korea rose to 110,000 last month, Voice of America reported Friday. Citing Gwendolyn Pang, who heads the Asian regional office of the International Federation of Red Cross, VOA’s Korean Service said 110,015 out of [...]
SEOUL, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of North Korean defectors who resettled in South Korea said they have thought about returning to their country of origin, a survey showed on Wednesday. According to the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights’ survey of 415 North Korean defectors living in the South, 22.9 [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States has withdrawn former White House official Victor Cha from consideration for ambassador to South Korea, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The official on the White House National Security Council confirmed the decision, which raises new concerns about the Donald Trump administration’s policy toward Seoul and Pyongyang. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is agonizing over whether it send refined petroleum products to North Korea for upcoming joint events amid tough international sanctions over Pyongayng’s missile tests, officials said Sunday. “We told the North to take charge of supplying the electricity necessary to hold the joint cultural events but received an answer that it is difficult to stably supply power to the facility built by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean officials who recently inspected a ski resort in North Korea found the facilities are in a good enough condition to host joint ski training ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, a government official said Friday. The two Koreas agreed last week to hold cultural events at Mt. [...]