SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan held high-level economic talks in Seoul on Wednesday to discuss cooperation in supply chains and advanced technologies, the presidential office said. Song Ki-ho, presidential secretary for economic security, and Takeshi Soda, Cabinet councilor of Japan’s National Security Secretariat, led their respective delegations at the fourth [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Senior diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to advancing trilateral cooperation, as the three sides held talks in Tokyo on Friday. First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo was joined by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and their Japanese counterpart, Takehiro Funakoshi, [...]
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Vice foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks this week to discuss ways of further enhancing cooperation on North Korean issues and economic security, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Wednesday. First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea came up short of winning their sixth East Asian men’s football title at home Tuesday after losing to Japan 1-0 in the finale. Ryo Germain scored the match’s lone goal in the eighth minute of the teams’ final contest at the East Asian Football Federation [...]
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States held talks this week in Seoul to discuss ways to “modernize” the bilateral alliance in a “mutually beneficial” manner and strengthen it into a “future-oriented” and “comprehensive strategic” one, the two sides said Friday. The consultations on Thursday and Friday came as U.S. [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The host country South Korea handled China 3-0 to open an East Asian men’s football tournament Monday. Lee Dong-gyeong, Joo Min-kyu and Kim Ju-sung scored a goal apiece as South Korea kicked off the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Football Championship with a comfortable win on [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) on Monday rejected a South Korean proposal calling for a review of Japan’s implementation of its pledged measures regarding industrial sites linked to wartime forced labor. The decision came after the proposal was put to an unprecedented vote during the WHC session in [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China have discussed cooperation on the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit here and other pending bilateral issues, likely including Beijing’s steel structures in the overlapping maritime zone in the Yellow Sea, Seoul officials said Wednesday. The working-level dialogue took place Tuesday, led by Kang Young-shin, [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan held combined air drills Wednesday in an effort to strengthen their trilateral security cooperation against North Korean threats, the South’s Air Force said. It marked the first joint air exercise among the three countries since President Lee Jae Myung took office earlier [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior Air Force officials from South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday signed a letter of intent for comprehensive cooperation on the South’s homegrown fighter jets, the South Korean Air Force said. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Lee Young-su and Maj. Gen. Rashed Mohammed A. [...]