‘Korea is best partner for developing Russian Far East’
President Moon Jae-in (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a summit at the Far Eastern University in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 6.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and Russian President Vladimir Putin held summit talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 6.
The...
ASEAN Culture House opens in Busan
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (fifth from left) poses with foreign ministers and vice ministers from ASEAN countries, including Philippine Foreign Minister Peter Cayetano (third from left), during the opening ceremony for the ASEAN Culture House in Haeundae-gu District, Busan, on Sept. 1. (Ministry of...
PM meets Philippine Foreign Minister
Philippine Foreign Minister Alan Peter Cayetano (left) and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon meet at the Government Complex Seoul on Sept. 4. (Prime Minister’s Office)
By Kim Young Shin
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon hosted a meeting with Philippine Foreign Minister Alan Peter Cayetano to talk about ways to...
President Moon purchases PyeongChang tickets online
President Moon Jae-in purchases tickets to the PyeongChang Winter Games online, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 5, as online sales for the Winter Olympics have now begun.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in bought two tickets online to the upcoming PyeongChang 2018...
The Grump’s big trip to Pyeongchang
Tuomas Kyrö (right), author of the novel 'Happy Days of the Grump,' stands beside his fictional character, the Grump, an 80-year-old stubbornly traditional Finnish farmer. In Kyrö's upcoming novel, the Grump embarks on a world tour, with Korea as his first destination.
By Cho A-la and Lee Hana
Photos...
Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha in Seoul
The devout join hands in prayer at the Seoul Central Masjid, the first mosque in Korea, on Sept. 1 to celebrate Eid al-Adha.
By Kim Young Deok and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
On Sept. 1, some 2,000 Muslims gathered at the Seoul Central Masjid, the oldest mosque in Korea,...
President Moon declares Oct. 2 holiday, nation gets 10 days off
President Moon Jae-in presides over a cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 5. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Yoon Sojung
Oct. 2 has become a one-time holiday.
President Moon Jae-in passed a bill that turned Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, into a temporary holiday, in a cabinet meeting...
President Moon reaches out internationally over NK
President Moon Jae-in holds a series of phone calls with Germany, the U.S. and Russia, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 4, to talk about North Korea’s sixth nuclear weapons test one day earlier. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in made a series of...
President Moon meets ILO director-general, Russian federal security director
President Moon Jae-in (right) meets with Director-General Guy Ryder of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss his new administration's labor policies, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 4.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with Director-General Guy Ryder of...
President Moon calls for new means against NK nuclear weapons
President Moon Jae-in presides over an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 3. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, immediately...
PM meets Panamanian vice president, Lao foreign minister
Panamanian Vice President Isabel de Saint Malo (left) and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon meet at the Government Complex Seoul on Aug. 30.
By Kim Young Shin
Photos = Prime Minister’s Office
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon held consecutive meetings with Panamanian Vice President Isabel de Saint Malo and Lao...
‘Pyeongchang ready to welcome the world’
The chair of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission, Gunilla Lindberg, announces the results of a recent evaluation of next year's Winter Olympics sites during the ninth meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission, held at the Alpensia Convention Center in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do Province,...
Artistic barista brings Olympic mascots to cups of coffee
Barista Lee Kang Bin poses with pictures of Soohorang and Banabi, the two Olympic mascots, drawn in the milk and foam of two cups of coffee, at his cafe in Itaewon, Seoul, on Aug. 29. (Jeon Han)
By Hur SomEe and Lee Hana
Video = Kim Soon-ju
Seoul | Aug. 29,...
President Moon to visit Vladivostok for Eastern Economic Forum
Cheong Wa Dae announced on Sept. 1 that President Moon Jae-in will visit Vladivostok, Russia, to attend the Eastern Economic Forum on Sept. 6 and 7. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Yoon Sojung
President Moon Jae-in will visit Vladivostok, Russia, to attend the Eastern Economic Forum on Sept....
President Moon nominates ambassadors to US, China, Japan
President Moon Jae-in nominates ambassadors to the U.S., China and Japan, Cheong Wa Dae announced on Aug. 30. In the photo, Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Park Soo-hyun gives a press briefing at the Chunchugwan Press Center at Cheong Wa Dae. (Jeon Han)
By Yoon Sojung
President Moon...
Cha Bum-Kun, Bundesliga legend
Cha Bum-Kun, football legend and former coach of the Korean national football team, stresses the importance of fair play, both on the field and in the real world.
By Min Yea-Ji and Lee Hana
Photos = Kim Soon-ju
Seoul | Aug. 25, 2017
"The Bundesliga's Top Asian Goalscorer" (Der erfolgreichste Profi aus...
Thirty-eight nations to attend Seoul Defense Dialogue
Park Cheol Kyun, the defense ministry's deputy director general for international policy, briefs the press on the upcoming 2017 Seoul Defense Dialogue, at Seoul's Foreign Press Center on Aug. 30.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Kim Soon-ju
Seoul | Aug. 30, 2017
Korea will host the annual Seoul Defense Dialogue...
Korea, Japan vow to increase pressure on NK
President Moon Jae-in speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Aug. 30 to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launch that passed over Japan a day earlier (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in held a telephone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on...
President Moon meets U.S. foreign affairs committee chairperson
President Moon Jae-in (right) meets with Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, at Cheong Wa Dae on Aug. 28.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in met with U.S. Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign...
President Moon calls for stronger military stance against North Korea
Presidential Senior Secretary for Public Relations Yoon Young-chan briefs the press about the outcome of a National Security Council emergency meeting convened following North Korea’s missile launch on Aug. 29. Pictured is the senior secretary in a briefing at Cheong Wa Dae on June...
