SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule in 1919 is an important moment in Korean history and is even enshrined in the country’s constitution. Celebrities’ efforts to raise awareness about this historic event in Korea’s independence movement have been a hot topic. During this year’s March 1 [...]
OTTAWA, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol wound up his second overseas trip amid embarrassment over the use of foul language caught on hot mic, but the trip was marked by one unmistakable outcome: the first summit with Japan in nearly three years. Yoon began the trip with a stop in [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo of President Yoon Suk-yeol staring at a nearly blank computer screen during his visit to Spain last week has raised eyebrows in South Korean online communities, with some suspecting it was a setup by the presidential office. Yoon’s office released 12 photos Sunday that showed the president [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday offered to send COVID-19 vaccines to North Korea, his spokesperson said, a day after Pyongyang acknowleged an outbreak for the first time since the pandemic began. After claiming for over two years that it was coronavirus-free, the North reported its first case of COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol made his first commute to work by motorcade Wednesday, an unusual spectacle that followed his relocation of the presidential office. Yoon left his private home in southern Seoul at 8:21 a.m. and arrived at his office in the central district of Yongsan at 8:34 a.m. The [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol took the oath of office Tuesday, vowing to rebuild the nation on the foundation of a liberal democracy and market economy and offering to revive North Korea’s economy with an “audacious plan” should it take steps to denuclearize. In his inauguration address at the National Assembly [...]