US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left) shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup after a joint press conference after their meeting at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan 31, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) SEOUL – The defense chiefs of the United States and South Korea vowed on Tuesday to […]
South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol arrives for the G20 leaders' summit in Nusa Dua, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Nov 15, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) TOKYO – Japan is considering relaxing controls on exports to South Korea as its president, Yoon Suk-yeol, seeks to improve ties amid a strained East Asian security […]
In this April 11, 2021 photo, then Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, right, meets South Korea's then Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun in Tehran. (PHOTO / AFP) TEHRAN — Iran on Sunday urged South Korea to release its frozen assets and slammed the Asian country for its "unsatisfactory" cooperation in repaying debts. The government of South Korea […]
In this Oct 30, 2018 photo, Lee Choon-shik (center), a victim of forced labor by Japan during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945, sits in the Supreme Court in Seoul. (ED JONES / AFP) SEOUL – The South Korean government unveiled a plan on Thursday to compensate victims of Japan's […]
Former South Korean "comfort women" Lee Ok-sun and Gil Won-ok attend a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Nov 13, 2019. (KIM HONG-JI / REUTERS) SEOUL – Another South Korean victim of sex slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II has passed away, leaving the living victims at 10, an advocacy group […]
DPRK refuses to buckle to pressure as US stretches regional influence In this photo provided by the Republic of Korea's defense ministry, fighter jets of the US and the ROK's air forces fly in formation during a joint drill on June 7, 2022. (PHOTO / ROK DEFENSE MINISTRY VIA AP) On Sept 30, when Russian […]
DPRK refuses to buckle to pressure as US stretches regional influence In this photo provided by the Republic of Korea's defense ministry, fighter jets of the US and the ROK's air forces fly in formation during a joint drill on June 7, 2022. (PHOTO / ROK DEFENSE MINISTRY VIA AP) On Sept 30, when Russian […]
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions hold up their cards during a rally against the government's labor policy near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on Dec 3, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) SEOUL – South Korean truckers voted to end a nationwide strike that had disrupted supply chains, their union said […]
In this Nov 15, 2022 file photo, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol talks during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. (DITA ALANGKARA / POOL / AP) SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned that the government might step in to break up a nationwide strike by truckers, calling it illegal and […]
In this photo provided by South Korean Defense Ministry, a US Air Force B-1B bomber (sixth from top left) South Korean Air Force F-35 fighter jets and US Air Force F-16 fighter jets (left) fly over South Korea Peninsula during a joint air drill in South Korea on Nov 19, 2022. (SOUTH KOREAN DEFENSE MINISTRY […]
This combination of images taken between Nov 2, 2022 and Nov 5, 2022 and released on Nov 7, 2022 by DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows various missile tests being performed by the DPRK's Korean People's Army at undisclosed locations. (STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) SEOUL – Amid the record-scale US-Republic […]
This handout photo taken on September 30, 2022 and provided by the ROK Defence Ministry in Seoul shows warships including the US Navy's nuclear-powered USS Annapolis submarine (right), the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier (center), ROK's Munmu the Great destroyer (right) and Japan's Asahi-class destroyer (left) during a trilateral anti-submarine exercise in the international […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York on Sept 21, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) SEOUL – A series of gaffes and controversies is overshadowing South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's first major overseas tour, sending his ratings plunging and inviting scathing criticism from some lawmakers even […]
This file picture taken on May 20, 2013 shows soldiers rappelling down from South Korean Army's helicopter, Surion, during a rehearsal at a ceremony to celebrate the deployment and observe a test flight at the Army Aviation School in Nonsan, south of Seoul. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) SEOUL – One South Korean military service member […]
Singapore, Sep 1, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) welcomed over 200 delegates from across the region for its first ever Korean focused conference and its first in market event since 2019, with Korea in View, which took place on 30 August at the Westin Josun, Seoul. To […]
A woman walks past an advertisement featuring Japanese and South Korea's flags at a shop in Shin Okubo area in Tokyo, Aug 2, 2019. (EUGENE HOSHIKO / AP) TOKYO – Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday met with Yun Duk-min, the new South Korean Ambassador to Japan, for the first time, as relations between […]
South Korea's President Yoon Suk-Yeol looks on during a tri-lateral meeting with the US President and Japan's Prime Minister on the sidelines of the NATO summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba held […]
South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War in Seoul on June 25, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) HANOI – Vietnam and South Korea aim to raise the value of bilateral trade between the countries to $100 billion next […]
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, US and South Korea Air Force fighter jets including South Korea's F-35A stealth fighters – and US F-16 fighter jets, fly in formation during a joint drill on June 7, 2022. (PHOTO / SOUTH KOREA DEFENSE MINISTRY VIA AP) SEOUL – Six US F-35A stealth fighter […]
South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks on the government's supplementary revised budget bill at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on May 16, 2022. (JEON HEON-KYUN / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol promised on Thursday to remove outdated regulations hindering new businesses while calling for an immediate start […]
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Park Jin, the new foreign minister of the Republic of Korea, via video link in Beijng, May 16, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The situation on the Korean Peninsula could deteriorate because the new Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol’s policy toward the Democratic People’s Republic of […]
A group of activists chant slogans as they protest against US President Joe Biden's visit to Japan, in Tokyo on May 22, 2022. (PHILIP FONG / AFP) TOKYO / SEOUL – US President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday, as about 750 protesters took to the streets against the planned US-Japan summit and the […]
In this photo provided by the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un, center, delivers a speech during a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of the Korean People's Army at the Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, on April 25, 2022. (KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY /KOREA NEWS SERVICE VIA […]
HONG KONG, Apr 26, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Legend Capital’s portfolio company Lunit, a Korean Medical AI company, recently announced a preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange for initial public offering (IPO) on the KOSDAQ market, and it plans to submit a registration statement within the second quarter of 2022. Founded in […]
Citizen groups demonstrate near the US military base in Busan, South Korea on April 5, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Biological laboratories run by the United States military in South Korea are endangering residents' lives, and the experiments carried out at the facilities for military purposes should be banned, experts say. "The fact that (these) facilities […]
A South Korean Air force's KT-1 aircraft takes off in Yecheon, South Korea on Oct 4, 2015. (PHOTO / YONHAP VIA AP) SEOUL – Three people were killed and one was seriously injured as two trainer fighter jets of the South Korean air force collided in midair and crashed in the southeastern city, Yonhap news […]
An aerial picture shows the Dokdo (Takeshima) islets in the East Sea (the Sea of Japan) on July 14, 2008. (KOREA POOL REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT / AFP) SEOUL – South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday expressed deep regret over Japan's history textbooks for high school students. The foreign ministry said in a statement that […]
South Korea companies Hana Financial Investment and C&P Sports have combined to join the race to buy Chelsea football club, C&P Sports’ CEO has confirmed. The English Premier League club were initially put up for sale by owner Roman Abramovich at the start of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. That was before sanctions were imposed […]
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said a test conducted on Sunday was for the development of a reconnaissance satellite system. The report by state news agency KCNA did not elaborate on what type of rocket had been used in the test, but Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the missile flew about 300 kilometers […]
SEOUL – South Korean authorities have ordered a production halt at one of petrochemical company Yeochun NCC's three naphtha crackers after a blast killed four people and injured four. The incident at Yeochun NCC's third plant in the city of Yeosu comes as South Korean businesses brace for greater scrutiny under a new law that […]