SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University will open a new graduate major in peace and unification studies that specializes in peace, unification, and North Korean society to foster experts that can effectively address unification as well as post-unification outcomes. The university is planning to create a master’s course on peace and unification [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 North Korean defectors believed inter-Korean unification was very much needed when they lived in the North, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll, based on interviews with 87 defectors, by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, showed 90.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has found that 6 out of 10 South Korean adults think “unification (between the two Koreas) is necessary.” The Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University announced that 59.8 percent of respondents answered “unification is necessary” in a survey that quizzed 1,200 [...]
MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of South and North Koreans torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War met for the first time in over six decades in a tearful, long-dreamed-of family reunion on Monday. Eighty-nine South Koreans, mostly in their 70s and older, met about 180 long-separated family members, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a new survey, only 2 out of 10 children and young adults think that unification between South and North Korea is necessary. This is according to the National Youth Policy Institute, which surveyed 1,392 students in middle school grades 1 to 3 and high school students in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a new survey, 8 out 10 Koreans think that South and North Korea will eventually become a unified nation in the long run. Most of the individuals surveyed said that the first thing that the South Korean government should do, in terms of its policy on North [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are expressing optimism over new business opportunities in North Korea in the wake of the recent rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a historic summit on Tuesday. After holding the talks in Singapore, the two [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – KOMSCO (the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation) unveiled ‘Unification Medals’ Thursday ahead of the 71st Liberation Day, celebrated yearly on August 15. The medals come in four different types: a gold medal (62.2g gold; 5.5 million won), gold-silver medal (7.5g gold, 1kg silver; 2.97 million won), silver medal [...]
GOSEONG, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of 155 scouts completed an eight-day traverse (July 25 – August 1) along the truce line that divides the two Koreas. As part of the event, which marked its 22nd anniversary this year, participating youth walked approximately 20km each day while visiting various tourist attractions located along [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea won’t accept North Korea’s demands simply to achieve its goal of regular reunions for families separated in the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Thursday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo was referring to Pyongyang’s demand that the two sides resume a long-stalled tour program to [...]