SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who experienced Buddhist temple stay programs in South Korea increased by more than a quarter in 2017 from a year ago, Buddhist officials said Friday. A total of 70,910 foreigners participated in temple stay programs last year run by the Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist group. The figure represents a 27-percent increase from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea agreed Friday to strengthen military cooperation with Switzerland and Latvia as the countries’ defense chiefs met in Seoul. South Korean Defense Minister Song Yong-moo had separate talks with his counterparts, who are visiting to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, according to his ministry. [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Local organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Tuesday the women’s alpine combined event has been rescheduled due to an adverse weather forecast. The organizers said the alpine combined – which features one downhill run and one slalom run — will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Jeongseon Alpine Centre in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province. The event was [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s cheerleaders visiting the South for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics staged a surprise performance Tuesday during their trip to a tourist attraction in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the Olympics. Some 80 members of the squad visited Ojukheon, the birth home of Yi I, a 16th [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Three North Koreans, including one new face, dressed for the joint Korean female hockey team’s second game, against Sweden at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, on Monday. At least three out of 22 players in the lineup for each game must be from North Korea, as per terms set by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the combined team last month. And head [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A hockey game is 60 minutes long, and it stands to reason that you’ve got to play hard for the whole 60 minutes to win, especially when you’re an underdog like Korea at the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics. When Korea — the joint team of players from the South and the North — lost to Sweden 3-1 in its first warmup game together Sunday, the playerssimply didn’t show up on time, [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean short track speed skater Choe Un-song sustained an apparent leg injury in training on Friday. Choe took a bad spill and crashed hard into safety padding during his first training session at Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, a sub-host city of all ice events during [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification minister expressed hope Friday that next week’s high-level talks with North Korea could pave the way for an improvement in long-stalled inter-Korean ties. Cho Myoung-gyon, the country’s top pointman on unification, said that the two Koreas will likely first focus on discussing the North’s participation in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has reopened a cross-border communications channel with South Korea nearly two years after the shutdown of the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Two Koreas had their first contact via a hotline that has been suspended for 23 months on Wednesday. The surprising news came only hours after a senior North [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. First Lady Melania Trump spent time with Korean students on Tuesday at a sports event organized by the U.S. Embassy in Korea to promote physical activity among young girls. She arrived in Korea earlier in the day with her husband President Donald Trump for a two-day state visit [...]