Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Tickets for PyeongChang Winter Games now available online

Online sales for next February’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games began on Sept. 5. Pictured is the front page of the official PyeongChang 2018 Tickets website. By Kim Ji Hoe and Sohn JiAe Online ticket sales started for next year’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,...

President Moon meets Ban Ki-moon ahead of UN General Assembly

President Moon Jae-in meets with former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 11. (Cheong Wa Dae) By Lee Hana President Moon Jae-in met with former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the upcoming 72nd session of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA 72) and...

Korea, Japan reaffirm ‘solid cooperation’

President Moon Jae-in holds summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 7. By Sohn JiAe Photos = Cheong Wa Dae President Moon Jae-in held a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 7 during...

First lady honors Korean independence in Russia

First lady Kim Jung-sook takes a look around a historical exhibit at the cultural center for ethnic Koreans, in Ussuriysk, Russia, on Sept. 6. By Lee Hana Photos = Cheong Wa Dae First lady Kim Jung-sook, currently in Russia with President Moon Jae-in, visited Ussuriysk on Sept. 6,...

‘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...

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