SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver a 22-minute speech at the National Assembly in Seoul this week, the first such address by an American head of state in nearly a quarter century, a parliamentary source said Monday. Trump will speak before 550 people, including South Korean lawmakers, foreign diplomats [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Progressive civic groups plan to stage massive rallies this weekend in protest of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Seoul next week, the organizers said Friday. At least 1,000 citizens will gather for an anti-Trump rally in Jongno, central Seoul, according to the groups. Similar protests will take place concurrently in other major cities, including Gwangju, Daejeon, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With U.S. President Donald Trump expected to visit South Korea next month, demonstrators took to the streets over the weekend for a series of anti-war protests in Seoul. Dozens of followers of Hyanglin Church marched from Myeongdong, where the church is located, to Gwanghwamun on Sunday, stopping in front of [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Elementary schoolchildren on Baengyeong Island, located a stone’s throw from the maritime military demarcation line between the two Koreas, have sent handwritten letters to the U.S. embassy in Seoul for the soon-to-visit President Donald Trump, asking that “There be no war”. A total of 83 letters from 83 children [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet here this week, Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, for bilateral talks expected to focus on ways to deal with provocative North Korea. The two leaders will hold a bilateral summit here on Thursday, [...]
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump were set to hold bilateral talks Friday over a wide range of issues that will likely include ways to strengthen the countries’ alliance and their joints efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons. The first bilateral summit between [...]
SEOUL AIR BASE, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in headed to the United States on Wednesday for a summit with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, which will likely focus on how to rein in North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile capabilities, as well as forming a personal relationship to last their [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Trump is facing criticism in South Korea after a recent interview with Reuters in which he expressed a desire for the East Asian country to pay for the expenses of deploying a THAAD missile defense system, with some critics accusing the U.S. President of ignoring South Korea’s contribution, including damage [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s exports to the United States are expected to suffer losses as much as US$17 billion over five years if the two nations renegotiate a bilateral free trade deal, according to a report on Sunday. South Korea’s businesses remain concerned after U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters in an interview last week that he will either renegotiate or scrap the free trade deal with South Korea, calling it “horrible.” If tariff [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean historians and activists rallied in downtown Seoul Friday angered by a report that U.S. President Donald Trump quoted Chinese leader Xi Jinping as saying the two Koreas “used to be a part of China.” The members of the Institute of Korean Cultural Studies and other history institutions [...]