Following the historic meeting between the two Koreas’ leaders on Friday morning at Panmunjeom, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un said something to South Korean President Moon Jae-in that caught the ears of many Koreans watching the conversation via television. The two heads of state met and exchanged handshakes charged with historical significance at the Military Demarcation...Read More
The leaders of the two Koreas shook hands Friday as they prepared for their historic meeting to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared from the Panmungak, a building on the northern side of the truce village of Panmunjeom, at 9:27 a.m. President Moon Jae-in was waiting for him in...Read More
The two Koreas are gearing up preparations for the inter-Korean summit, with only four days to go before the historic bilateral talks over denuclearization slated for Friday. Officials of the South and the North will have rehearsals of the meeting between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over many times this week,...Read More
The number of foreigners who visited South Korea rose 10.7 percent on-year in March, ending 12 straight months of decline, data showed Monday, as the government pushes to diversify the country’s tourist portfolio in the face of a plunge in the number of Chinese visitors. The total number of inbound visitors came to 1.37 million...Read More
The ‘4 · 27 South-North Summit’ came close enough to be counted in both hands. On the wall of the Seoul Library, there was a spread of the phrase “Peace Made by the South and the North.” Hundreds of flowers were spread in the shape of a peninsula in the Seoul Plaza. Peace on the...Read More
Hanyang University is a private research university in South Korea. The main campus is in Seoul, and the second one, the Education Research Industry Cluster at Ansan, or ERICA campus, is located in Ansan. Hanyang (한양;漢陽) derives from the former name of the capital Seoul which was used during the Chosun Dynasty. Its motto and...Read More
South Korea will provide free wireless Internet on public buses across the country later this year, the ICT ministry said Friday, in a move to give citizens better access to the Internet and reduce their phone bills. Free WiFi zones will be set up on some 4,200 buses — one-eighth of all buses across the...Read More
Spring is here, and K-pop music will be one of the pursuits to relish in the newly warmed weather. If March saw top boy bands such as Wanna One and TVXQ as well as rising stars Monsta X and Stray Kids making their mark on charts, the top girl bands have been putting or will...Read More
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju attended a concert put on by South Korean performers at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, Sunday. South Korean entertainers performed in the North’s capital for the first time in 13 years, presenting a wide variety of South Korean music to the reclusive regime. The concert,...Read More
Part of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo players who were scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead of a historic inter-Korean summit headed to North Korea on Saturday. Led by Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Do Jong-whan, 120 members of the troupe left Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport at 10:30 a.m. in a chartered...Read More
