SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s lead in their group for the Asian World Cup qualifiers has been cut from five points to three points, following the final set of matches for 2024, held Tuesday night across the Middle East. In the first of three Group B matches Tuesday in the third round [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul World Cup Stadium has been regarded as the mecca of South Korean football for the past two decades or so, ever since it was built ahead of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan. However, its pitch conditions haven’t matched the stadium’s sterling reputation. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A professor at Seoul National University’s College of Music who holds Israeli citizenship was recently referred to prosecutors on charges of damaging posters supporting Palestinian rights on the university’s Gwanak campus in February, according to the police. On April 22, the Gwanak Police Station in Seoul said it had referred [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As the conflict between Israel and Palestine persists, K-pop artists find themselves inadvertently embroiled in the fallout from a boycott movement targeting companies perceived as pro-Israel. Recently, online communities buzzed with criticism towards Le Sserafim’s Huh Yun-jin for her consumption of Starbucks coffee, considered a trigger for the backlash due [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean passenger jet carrying dozens of citizens is set to return home from Israel, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after violence erupted between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The Korean Air Co. flight carrying 214 passengers, including 192 Korean nationals, departed from Tel Aviv at 1:50 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Palestine won its first-ever medal at a World Taekwondo competition with 12-year-old Mohammed Yasini’s silver medal. Yasini settled for silver after being defeated by Germany’s Ranye Drebes in the gold medal match in the men’s under 41 kilogram division of the World Cadet Championships held at the T1 Arena in [...]
“We hope that Palestine’s representative office will be set up in South Korea at an earliest date because we believe that the move will help promote the relations between the two sides.” “I expect that Palestine’s ties with North Korea could help ease tension on the Korean Peninsula and further promote peace in the region. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A diplomat representing the Korean government has been officially dispatched to Palestine. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 28, Park Woong-cheol, the newly appointed representative to the State of Palestine, began working around the clock at the office in Ramallah, the de facto administrative capital, from the 25th [...]