SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed concerns over the current global situation and emphasized the global agency’s crucial role in consolidating multilateral efforts to deescalate tensions. “The current global situation is very complicated and dangerous,” he said at a press conference in Seoul following the press screening of [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the 2025-2027 term on Wednesday, as Seoul seeks to actively participate in international efforts to address North Korean and other human rights issues. The U.N. General Assembly elected South Korea to the 47-member council for a sixth [...]
BUSAN, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A new project is underway to renovate the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in the southeastern port city of Busan, with the aim of revitalizing the atmosphere of reverence and improving the organization of the area. The city government on Sunday announced its plan to convert approximately 176,000 square meters of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has voted in favor of a United Nations resolution on the human rights situation in the Russian-occupied Crimea on Thursday (New York time) in a shift of its position on the matter. The U.N. General Assembly adopted the resolution on the human rights situation in Crimea, which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has voted in favor of a resolution ousting Iran from a U.N. women’s body on Wednesday (New York time), along with 28 other countries, amid Tehran’s monthslong crackdown on protests. The 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution to oust Iran from the Commission [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in New York on Sunday to attend an annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. He plans to deliver a keynote speech on Korean peace and Seoul’s role in resolving global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea pledged Thursday to provide US$1 million to a U.N. development fund to help communities near the Aral Sea suffering from decadeslong water depletion, the foreign ministry said. Chung Kee-yong, director general for climate change, energy, environment and scientific affairs at Seoul’s foreign ministry, signed an agreement to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In downtown Manhattan, New York, participants gathered to make human chain on Saturday (local time) to link the South Korean and North Korean representatives of the U.N. Located about 500 meters away, a rare scene took place in front of the U.N. headquarters, in which the representatives of U.N. [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Advances in computing technology and dataanalytics tools are expected to help the United Nations achieve its keygoals of reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable development, the head of the U.N. agency’s sub-regional office said Wednesday. Kilaparti Ramakrishna, head and director of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) East and North-East Asia Office, made the remarks during a forum [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea expressed hope Wednesday that the two Koreas would stage reunions as scheduled next month for families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War. Ju Chul-ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs, made the comment a day after North Korea warned that it could cancel the reunions in anger [...]