SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A clear majority of South Koreans continue to view unification with North Korea as a national goal, even as doubts persist about the prospects for renewed diplomacy with Pyongyang, according to a government-commissioned survey released Sunday. Nearly 69 percent of respondents said unification remains either “very necessary” or “quite necessary,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer than half of South Koreans believe unification with the North is necessary, though support has edged higher compared with a year ago, a new survey shows. The 2025 Unification Awareness Survey, conducted by Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies and Gallup Korea, found that 41.1 [...]
SEOUL, August 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Chung Dong-young met with the acting U.S. ambassador in Seoul and emphasized the importance of President Donald Trump’s role in building solid peace on the Korean Peninsula. Chung made the remarks during a meeting with acting U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Joseph Yun, as both the Lee [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has removed “unification” from the name of a building on the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as Pyongyang has stepped up its campaign to redefine relations with Seoul as hostile. In August last year, North Korea replaced the signboard [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho said Thursday the key to addressing North Korea’s provocations and nuclear ambitions lies in the unified goals and coordinated actions of the international community. Kim made the remarks during a press conference in Tokyo, where he reaffirmed Seoul’s commitment to achieving the complete denuclearization of [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho on Tuesday underscored the importance of “cultural” approaches to fostering internal change in North Korea, saying the inflow of South Korean pop culture is causing “cracks” in a rigid ideology-based society of the reclusive country. Kim also pointed out North Korean authorities’ “sense of crisis” [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An institute affiliated with the unification ministry published new unification education guidebooks Monday that highlight the Yoon Suk Yeol government’s liberal democracy-based unification vision and North Korea’s increased threats against South Korea. The National Institute for Unification Education released two books used as the basic guidelines for unification education. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Friday it has started discussions to draw up a new vision for unification between South and North Korea as it pushes to unveil the blueprint this year that espouses the principle of freedom. The Unification Future Planning Committee, an advisory committee launched last year designed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Friday it will draw up a new vision for unification between the two Koreas to include the principle of liberal democracy amid North Korea’s vow not to seek unification with the South. The government earlier said it plans to update the National Community Unification Formula, [...]
BERLIN, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho has warned that North Korea’s vicious cycle of receiving assistance and breaking off agreements will “no longer work” under the current administration of President Yoon Suk Yeol. Kim made the remarks at a conference hosted by the Berlin chapter of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council [...]