SEOUL, The top U.S. envoy to the United Nations said Wednesday that Washington will continue to work with South Korea and other countries to establish an alternative to the U.N. monitoring panel on North Korean sanctions.
North Korea has been under …
SEOUL, A man was detained Wednesday after protesting on top of the steel arch of the Han River Bridge for five hours and causing a massive traffic jam during the morning rush hour as a section of the road across the bridge was closed for safety measu…
SEOUL, South Korea has shipped this year’s first batch of rice to countries suffering from food shortages, aiming to provide 100,000 tons of rice to 11 nations, the agricultural ministry said Wednesday.
The shipping ceremony took place in Gunsan, 17…
WASHINGTON, South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo stressed the need Wednesday to beef up joint deterrence efforts by Seoul and Washington to address evolving North Korean military capabilities, which he said pose a “direct” threat to th…
SEOUL, World IT Show 2024, the largest information and communications technology exhibition in South Korea, kicked off Wednesday in Seoul to showcase cutting-edge technologies of local and global companies, its organizer said.
The three-day event is…
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke by phone with Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, on Wednesday to discuss promoting bilateral cooperation, Yoon’s office said.
Yoon congratulated Prabowo, who was elected in March, and requested suppor…
SEOUL, South Korean Buddhist monks reclaimed 14th-century Buddhist relics from a Boston museum in a ceremony on Tuesday (U.S. time), culminating more than a decadelong repatriation efforts by the government and the Buddhist circle.
The return was ma…
SEOUL, South Korea’s special representative for the Indo-Pacific held talks Wednesday with an Australian deputy secretary to discuss security and cooperation in the region, the foreign ministry said.
Chung Kee-yong and Elly Lawson, deputy secretary …
