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Some 20 photos of paintings by Edvard Munch are on display at Samgakji Station through August in celebration of Norway’s 150th anniversary of the modernist painter’s birth. (Norwegian Embassy) Seo...
Updated : 2013.03.24 20:31
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A handful of tour buses carrying foreign diplomats, the Korean press corps and students slowly lumbered across Unification Bridge into the demilitarized zone carefully negotiating barricades assemble...
Updated : 2013.03.24 20:31
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The French-speaking foreign missions in Korea observed International Francophonie Day on March 20 and will celebrate the French language and French identity through a series of events through March a...
Updated : 2013.03.24 20:30
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Libya’s diplomatic mission here held a reception in Seoul on Monday to mark two years since Libyan youth took up arms and defied a deadly crackdown by strongman Moammar Gadhafi. The demonstrations ...
Updated : 2013.03.24 20:30
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Korea and Kenya forged ahead with plans to build a nuclear power plant and make the East African nation the second to have nuclear power on the continent. Kenyan Ambassador to Korea Ngovi Kitau part...
Updated : 2013.03.24 20:30
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The Foreign Ministry is expected to undertake a major personnel shake-up in the coming few weeks including ambassadors to key partners such as the U.S., China and Japan, officials said Friday. The m...
Updated : 2013.03.22 20:43
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers keenly interested in Korean affairs launched a "Korea Caucus" Thursday for the 113th session of Congress. It is co-chaired by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), Rep. Mike...
Updated : 2013.03.22 09:25
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The U.S. Congress plans to expand the annual quota for South Korean professionals who want to work in the United States. According to news reports, two U.S. congressmen jointly introduced a bill tha...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:54
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MOSCOW, (AFP) -- Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris failed to reach progress after two rounds of talks in Moscow on assistance from Russia after his island's rejection of an EU bailout that sla...
Updated : 2013.03.20 21:03
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LONDON (AP) -- Prosecutors say that The Sun newspaper's Deputy Editor Geoff Webster has been charged with authorizing thousands in illegal payoffs to government officials. The charges are among the ...
Updated : 2013.03.20 20:44
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- President Barack Obama is declaring common cause with Israel, highlighting the bonds between the United States and its Mideast ally. He says he has made Israel the first stop...
Updated : 2013.03.20 20:31
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Kang Kyung-wha, a former South Korean diplomat, as deputy head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ban's office ann...
Updated : 2013.03.19 09:22
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Korea is seeking to boost its role in the Arctic by sharing research assets and technological knowhow on coping with climate change, energy, shipping and other key issues, Seoul officials said Monday...
Updated : 2013.03.18 20:05
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The Foreign Ministry is expected to regain authority of some of its special recruitment programs that were taken away upon a nepotism scandal involving the daughter of a then-top diplomat in 2010. T...
Updated : 2013.03.17 21:11
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“God is an Argentine, and so is the Pope,” read the headlines of one Buenos Aires newspaper. With the elevation of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Roman Catholic Church’s first pontiff from...
Updated : 2013.03.17 21:04
