South Korea's foreign ministry Archives

New Task Force Set to Review Controversial Comfort Women Deal

SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign ministry said that it is making preparations to launch a task force to review a controversial deal reached in 2015 with Japan to address a long-standing rift between the neighbors over Tokyo’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. “(We) are in the middle of preparations for [...]

Foreign Ministry to Investigate Rape Allegations at Embassy in Ethiopia

SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it is conducting an internal investigation into allegations that a diplomat stationed in Ethiopia sexually assaulted a female subordinate. A local news outlet reported that the high-ranking diplomat working at the South Korean Embassy to Ethiopia raped a subordinate official over the [...]