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Czech Embassy marks opening of Brno Conservatory in Seoul

The Czech Republic marked the expansion of cultural relations with Korea by opening a new music conservatory in southern Seoul on Wednesday. The Czech Embassy in Korea marked expanding cultural ties...

Updated : 2013.03.17 21:02

U.S. envoy lauds free trade on trip to Busan

United States Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim looks on as an official points out arriving cargo at the Busan Port Authority in the southeastern-most port city and the gateway for a majority of U.S. imp...

Updated : 2013.03.17 21:02

Ireland celebrates St. Patrick’s by honoring its veterans

The Irish Embassy celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day, the nation’s official National Day, with a reception at the Regency Room of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Thursday. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated annual...

Updated : 2013.03.17 21:01

ASEAN-Korea Center sends trade mission to Thailand

Southeast Asia and Korea promoted the local home furnishings sector by dispatching a trade mission to Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday and Thursday. Organized in cooperation with Thailand’s Department o...

Updated : 2013.03.17 21:01

Canada gives a taste of future craft beer imports

The Canadian Embassy may soon provide your palate a welcome respite from the customary Korean quaffs of Cass, OB and Hite. Canada’s foreign ministry is leveraging its diplomatic muscle behind somet...

Updated : 2013.03.17 21:00

Japan PM hopes to meet China, S. Korea heads to ease ties

TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he hoped to meet the Chinese and South Korean leaders soon to improve relations strained by separate territorial rows. But his ruling par...

Updated : 2013.03.17 19:04

Korea revs up campaign to join Arctic Council

South Korea will hold an international conference early next week to discuss policy issues for environment-friendly development of the Arctic, an official said Friday, as part of its latest push to j...

Updated : 2013.03.15 20:48

Korea, China fault Japan on sex slavery at U.N.

GENEVA (AFP) ― South Korea and China on Thursday told the U.N.’s top human rights forum that Japan must face up to its World War II-era sexual enslavement of women from across occupied Asia, but Toky...

Updated : 2013.03.15 20:47

John Kerry to visit Seoul next month

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to South Korea next month as part of his Northeast Asia tour, his department announced Thursday. It will mark his first trip to the region since he too...

Updated : 2013.03.15 09:39

Atomic energy sticking point for Park, Obama

Differences between Korea and the U.S. over a decades-old nuclear energy pact are casting a shadow over the first talks between Presidents Park Geun-hye and Barack Obama scheduled for early May. Par...

Updated : 2013.03.14 20:10

Norway provides $8 million for GGGI’s work in Ethiopia

Global Green Growth Institute Director-General Richard Samans (second from right) poses with Norwegian representative to the GGGI Council Øystein Kåre Djupedal (left), Norwegian Ambassador to Korea...

Updated : 2013.03.14 20:07

[Graphic News] Process begins for choosing next pope

Cardinals entered the conclave to choose the successor to Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Tuesday evening. The 115 voting cardinals, who are forbidden from contact with the outside world during the c...

Updated : 2013.03.12 20:36

Top diplomats of Korea, U.S. likely to hold talks this month

Top diplomats of South Korea and the United States are expected to hold their first bilateral talks as early as this month, a senior Seoul official said Tuesday, as North Korea ramps up tensions with...

Updated : 2013.03.12 20:34

Korea eyes East Asia public diplomacy

South Korea seeks to enhance public diplomacy efforts with China and Japan this year to help defuse regional tensions and find long-term solutions to territorial and historical issues, a Seoul envoy ...

Updated : 2013.03.11 20:14

Holocaust memorial museum opens in Busan

A multicultural couple living in Busan opened a cultural center and museum focused on Israel and the Jewish people for the first time in Busan on March 4. Jay and Keum Kronish opened The Busan Israe...

Updated : 2013.03.10 20:56