HANOI, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up a two-nation swing through France and Vietnam on Saturday after making a high-profile plea for South Korea’s right to host the 2030 World Expo and promising stronger cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation. Yoon traveled to Paris on the first leg of his [...]
HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up a three-day visit to Hiroshima on Sunday after taking new steps to improve relations with Japan, pledging to do more for the global community and holding his first-ever meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Yoon was invited to Hiroshima to [...]
HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida paid tribute to Korean victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing Sunday, an unprecedented move demonstrating their commitment to improving bilateral ties. The two leaders made a joint visit to a cenotaph honoring the Korean victims [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol visited a children’s baseball game near his office building on Sunday, wearing the national baseball team’s jacket and posing as an umpire. Yoon encouraged players and coaches from Seoul’s Gadong Elementary School and Sinheung Elementary School in the central city of Daejeon, as the teams [...]
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s upcoming trip to the United States will underscore the vital role South Korea can and seeks to play in dealing with various challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. experts said Tuesday. The trip will also likely lead to concrete steps or “deliverables” that can [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen opposition and independent lawmakers denounced the National Assembly secretariat Monday for removing artworks satirizing the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol from a planned exhibition at the Assembly. About 80 pieces of art, including one showing a naked President Yoon brandishing a sword with the first lady, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A satirical cartoon about President Yoon Suk-yeol has sparked a debate about freedom of expression after the culture ministry expressed regret and issued a warning to the organizer of a cartoon festival that awarded a prize to it. Drawn by a high school student, the cartoon, titled “Yoon Suk-yeol [...]
OTTAWA, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol wound up his second overseas trip amid embarrassment over the use of foul language caught on hot mic, but the trip was marked by one unmistakable outcome: the first summit with Japan in nearly three years. Yoon began the trip with a stop in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — One hundred days into office, President Yoon Suk-yeol has seen his approval ratings more than halve to somewhere around 25 percent in the wake of unpopular personnel appointments and policy proposals, but no dramatic remedies are in sight. Yoon was inaugurated on May 10 after winning the election by [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo of President Yoon Suk-yeol staring at a nearly blank computer screen during his visit to Spain last week has raised eyebrows in South Korean online communities, with some suspecting it was a setup by the presidential office. Yoon’s office released 12 photos Sunday that showed the president [...]