President Moon Jae-in (left) meets with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae Facebook
President Moon Jae-in met with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 19. During the meeting, President Moon stressed that the PyeongChang 2018...
President Moon Jae-in gives the keynote speech at the U.N. Leaders’ Dialogue on Climate Change, at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19. (Cheong Wa Dae Facebook)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in delivered the keynote speech at the U.N. Leaders’ Dialogue on Climate Change, at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19.
President Moon started by saying that, “The Korean...
President Moon Jae-in and first lady Kim Jung-sook promote the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games during a meeting with Koreans and Korean-Americans residing in New York, at the InterContinental New York Barclay on Sept. 18.
By Sohn JiAe and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in, visiting New York to attend the 72nd session of the United Nations General...
President Moon Jae-in presents U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres with plush toys of Soohorang and Bandabi, the official mascots for next year’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, at the U.N. Secretariat in New York on Sept. 18. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in, on a visit to New York to attend the 72nd session of the U.N....
A special exhibition, ‘The Dream of a King: Masterpieces From the Dresden State Art Collections,’ opens at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul on Sept. 19. Some 130 items from the Dresden State Art Collections' Green Vault, Dresden Armory and Dresden Porcelain Collection are on display.
By Min Yea-Ji and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
Seoul l Sept. 18, 2017
“Here you can appreciate...
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Roufida Abouelwafa Ahmed
Photos = Korea Tourism OrganizationStarting Sept. 1 and through to Oct. 31, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will be hosting a series of events at halal restaurants across Korea. This is the second time the KTO hosts the festival, and it aims to provide for the needs of Muslim travelers, as a gesture to make...
Czech graphic designer Tereza Ruller showcases her participative performance 'Inhabit a Planet' during the opening ceremony for the fifth International Typography Biennale, at Culture Station Seoul 284 on Sept. 15.
By Xu Aiying and Lee Hana
Photos = Xu Aiying
Seoul | Sept. 15, 2017
"Before the invention of letters, the body was our communication medium. Even today, the body is still one of the most...
Different personalities come along with each different language. (Korea.net DB)
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Tanya Mokrina
Have you ever felt your personality change as you switch between languages?
Studies show that we have different personalities when we speak different languages.
In 1998, Michel Coven, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spent a year and a half conducting ethnographic research with bilingual Parisian...
President Moon Jae-in holds a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, President Donald Trump, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 17 to talk about North Korean issues. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in spoke with his U.S. counterpart, President Donald Trump, over the phone on Sept. 17 to reaffirm their close bilateral cooperation on dealing with North Korea’s ceaseless...
The next International Renewable Energy Conference will take place in Seoul in 2019. Pictured is President Moon Jae-in speaking at a ceremony to mark the permanent shutdown of Korea’s oldest nuclear reactor, the Kori-1, in Busan on June 19. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Min Yea-Ji and Lee Hana
Korea has been chosen to host the next International Renewable Energy Conference (IREC), a high-level political...
Maria Lohela (left), speaker of the parliament in Finland, visits Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon at the Government Complex Seoul on Sept. 13. (Prime Minister’s Office)
By Kim Young Shin
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon met with Finnish Parliamentary Speaker Maria Lohela and spoke about strengthening the relationship and expanding cooperation between Korea and Finland.
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon met with Finnish Parliamentary Speaker Maria...
Korea Disabled Artist Association President Bang Gui-hee (left) poses for a commemorative photo with singer DinDin who has been appointed as an honorary ambassador for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, during a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 13. The upcoming Korea-China-Japan Artists Festival for the Disabled opens on Nov. 29, marking 100 days until the Paralympic Winter...
The Cultural Heritage Administration formally designates kimchi making, or kimchi damgeugi, as an official National Intangible Cultural Heritage Item on Sept. 8. (Korea.net DB)
By Kim Young Deok and Kim Young Shin
Kimchi damgeugi, or kimchi making, will be designated as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage Item.
The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) made the announcement on Sept. 8, saying that the entire process of making all...
A statue of a forced laborer from colonial times is erected at Yongsan Station in Seoul on Aug. 12 to publicize the issue of men being drafted into labor units for the Imperial Japanese armed forces, and to offer tribute to the victims thereof.
By Xu Aiying and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
Seoul l Sept. 14, 2017
“We promise to bring the shimmering light...
President Moon Jae-in delivers the congratulatory address on the 64th anniversary of Korea Coast Guard Day, at the Port of Incheon Coast Guard Station on Sept. 13.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
“You should be reborn as a coast guard that keeps in mind solely the lives and safety of the people.”
So said President Moon Jae-in on the 64th anniversary...
On Sept. 5, the Korea Tourism Organization released a report about Korean tourism keywords from 2016 in major search engines like Google, Baidu and Yahoo. The photo above shows a group of tourists visiting Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul in February 2017. (Korea.net DB)
By Xu Aiying and Kim Young Shin
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) released a report on Sept. 5 that analyzed the...
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits survivors of sexual slavery in colonial times and World War II and delivers a photograph of a statue of Anne Frank, at the House of Sharing, a shelter for the victims, in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do Province, on Sept. 11. Gwangmyeong Mayor Yang Ki-dae hands him a photograph of a flower garden that students at...
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder presents the Korean edition of his autobiography, 'Entsheidungen – Mein Leben in der Politik,' to President Moon Jae-in at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 12.
By Jeon Han, Sohn JiAe and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon held a meeting with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Sept. 12 at Cheong Wa Dae to talk about strengthening...
President Moon Jae-in holds a phone call on Sept. 11 with French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, to discuss countermeasures to tackle the North Korean nuclear weapons issues. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Lee Hana
President Moon Jae-in held phone conversations with the French and Australian heads of state on Sept. 11 to discuss countermeasures against North Korea's sixth...
The torch for next year’s PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, unveiled to the public on Sept. 8, has a braille inscription of the Olympic slogan in both Korean and English.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Organizing Committee for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
The Paralympic torch was lit in Seoul in 1988 for the first time to kick off the...