AI Basic Act takes effect as world’s first set of laws for AI
An artificial intelligence drawing robot on Oct. 29, 2025, creates the portrait of a visitor at K-Business Square of the APEC Economic Exhibition Hall in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. (Park Dae Jin)
By Margareth Theresia
Korea donates food to 5 developing countries
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) Kim Yung-rok (right) shakes hands with World Food Programme Director David Beasely after signing an agreement outlining the donation of 50,000 tons of Korean rice, at WFP headquarters in Rome on Feb. 28. (MAFRA)
By Kim Eun-young and Lee Hana
Korea...
Moon administration publishes ‘Report to nation’
May 10 marks the first anniversary of the Moon Jae-in administration. The photo above shows Chairman of the State Affairs Committee Kim Jong Un (left) and President Moon Jae-in shaking hands after announcing the Panmunjeom Declaration at the Inter-Korean Summit on April 27. (2018...
K-pop stars to attend Paralympic festival
During the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, visitors will have a chance to enjoy some fan meet-and-greets, concerts and festivals featuring a range of music and TV celebrities at the Snow Festival in March to be held in both Pyeongchang and Gangneung. (Snow Festival...
Korea, Turkmenistan to boost ties in energy, infrastructure
President Moon Jae-in (left) on April 17 holds a summit with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow at Oguzkhan Palace in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
By Song Baleun and Lee Jihae
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow on April 17 announced plans to boost bilateral cooperation in sectors...
[Peace in PyeongChang] Police agency prepares for public security, terrorism
Director General Kim Gyo-tae of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Police Task Force says that all police forces in Korea guarantee visitor safety during next year’s Olympic Games. He was speaking in a sit-down interview with Korea.net on Nov. 14. (Jeon Han)
By Kim Ji...
Two Koreas to begin joint survey for inter-Korean railway connection
Unification ministry spokesperson Baik Tae Hyun briefs the press about the schedule for the opening of the South Korea-North Korea joint liaison office at the Government Complex Seoul on Sept. 12. (Ministry of Unification)
By Oh Hyun-woo and Yoon Sojung
The railway connection project between the two Korea got...
Two Koreas to soon begin joint survey of East Sea railway
A joint inter-Korean survey team inspects a section of the Gyeongui Line Nov. 30 to Dec. 5. Ministry of Unification (South Korea)
By Kim Minji
A South Korean survey team will visit North Korea to inspect the East Sea (Donghae) Rail from Dec. 8 after having...
Restaurants, cafes to suspend vaccine pass system from March 1
Minister of the Interior and Safety Jeon Hae-cheol on Feb. 28 chairs a virtual meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at Government Complex-Seoul. (Ministry of the Interior and Safety)
By Min Yea-Ji and Lee Jihae
All multipurpose facilities including restaurants and cafes from March 1 will temporarily...
Korea in the letters of a non-Korean
Our history begins in 2008 with the first visit to Korea by the Colombian journalist and writer Andres Felipe Solano. He met Yi Soojeong, who later became his wife and with whom he would return to Korean in 2012 to live there.
Solano not only...
Korea shares archiving experience with Asian neighbors
Archive specialists from Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Mongolia are greeted by a Korean official at the International Council on Archives Congress 2016, held at the COEX convention center on Sept. 5.
Korea is sharing its archiving expertise with its Asian neighbors.
Thirty-four archive specialists from Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan,...
Korea-US alliance based on diplomacy, national security: president
Richard Haass (left), president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is greeted by President Moon Jae-in at Cheong Wa Dae on June 21. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Lee Hana
President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, at...
Seoul to support IT-based public services, e-gov’t
Starting this year, the Ministry of the Interior will hold test runs of selected public services based on advanced IT.
It will also support a total of 32 intelligent e-government projects that focus on making it easier for people to use public services.
The ministry and...
Online tourist complaint site expands services
The government reopened its Tourist Complaint Center on Nov. 7. People who wish to make a complaint can register their complaint at the website using either a desktop or a smartphone.
The government reopened its Tourist Complaint Center on Nov. 7 (www.touristcomplaint.or.kr), upgrading and expanding...
President Moon: Korea’s next century will unite us in heart and mind
President Moon Jae-in, first lady Kim Jung-sook and a group of 33 representatives make their way to Gwanghwamun Square on March 1 led by a giant national flag used during the March First Independence Movement in 1919.
By Jeon Han and Lee Hana
Photos = Jeon Han, Hyoja-dong Studio
Seoul | March...
Photos, videos depict history of inter-Korean relationship
Korean citizens celebrate with former President Kim Dae-jung as he leaves for North Korea for the first Inter-Korean Summit on June 13, 2000.
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Inter-Korean Summit Preparation Committee
Cheong Wa Dae announced on April 18 that it will release to the...
No. of int’l visitors hits record-high 6.77M in Jan.-April period
An estimated 6.77 million foreign tourists between January and last month visited the country, a record for the four-month period. Shown is a crowded Bukchon Hanok Village on March 16 in Seoul's Jongno-gu District. (Lee Jeongwoo)
By Kang GahuiAn...
President Moon regrets unfortunate history between Korea, Vietnam
President Moon Jae-in pays his respects at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the final resting place of the Vietnamese revolutionary leader, in Hanoi on March 23. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Park Hye Ri and Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in expressed his regrets concerning massacres of Vietnamese civilians by Korean...
Baseball opens across Korea
As the KBO League's 2018 season starts with an opening game between the Samsung Lions and the Doosan Bears, baseball fans fill the Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on March 24.
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Hahm Hee-eun
Photos and Video = Lee Kyoung Mi
Seoul | March 29, 2018
The 2018...
‘1st vaccine shipment marks initial step toward return to normal life’
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun (second from right) on Feb. 24 watches the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines leave the manufacturing facility of pharmaceutical manufacturer SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province.
By Kim Eun-young and Lee Hana
Photos = Prime Minister's Secretariat Flickr account
The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines in...
