SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa said regarding author Han Kang’s New York Times essay titled ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ that “as a writer she is entitled to her own opinion, but her understanding of history and the way she described it is [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean hackers are believed to have stolen a large amount of classified military documents, including the latest South Korea-U.S. wartime operational plan, last year, a ruling party lawmaker said Tuesday. Citing reports from the defense ministry, Democratic Party Rep. Rhee Cheol-hee said that the hackers broke into the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has secured technologies to build a non-lethal graphite bomb which can paralyze the North’s power systems in case of war, military sources said Sunday. The so-called “blackout bomb” works by spreading chemically treated carbon graphite filaments over electric facilities to short-circuit and disrupt the power grid. The weapon [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Koreans are given a single day’s holiday for Chuseok, the traditional Korean autumn harvest feast, in contrast to the more extravagant manner in which its late leaders’ birthdays are celebrated. South Koreans have entered into a unusually long 10-day holiday for Chuseok, which falls on Wednesday, as the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa made a TV appearance on September 28 to discuss U.N. sanctions on North Korea. On the broadcast, Kang said she had met with and discussed the sanctions with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi while she was in New York. She noted that the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Some of the attacks reported on South Korean bitcoin exchanges earlier this year have been found to be from North Korean hackers, according to police. The Korean National Police Agency said on Wednesday that North Korean hackers are responsible for the malware attack on e-mail accounts of officials of South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A conference convened by the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources in Insadong, Jongno District was attended by prominent volcanologists Clive Oppenheimer, Jiaqi Liu and Richard Stone on September 26. The attending scientists discussed the possibility of a volcanic eruption by Mt. Paektu, which has lain dormant since [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer confidence fell for the second month in a row in September on the North Korea risk and Seoul’s row with Beijing over a missile defense system, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The composite consumer sentiment index for September stood at 107.7, down 2.2 points from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – To no one’s surprise, North Korea remains, at least outwardly, undaunted and defiant in the face of international condemnation over its persistent nuclear weapons program. The official newspaper of the autocratic government, Rodong Sinmun (translated as labor newspaper), lambasted the recent developments in its September 20 issue under the [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet here this week, Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, for bilateral talks expected to focus on ways to deal with provocative North Korea. The two leaders will hold a bilateral summit here on Thursday, [...]