Oman's Speaker of the Parliament Sheikh Khalid Al-Maawali (left) and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon shake hands at the Government Complex Seoul on Sept. 11. (Prime Minister’s Office)
By Kim Young Shin
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon held a meeting with the chairman of the Consultative Council of Oman, Sheikh Khalid Al-Maawali, to talk about strengthening ties and expanding cooperation between Korea and Oman.
Prime...
Christine Lagarde (left), managing director of the IMF, visits President Moon Jae-in at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 11.
By Jeon Han and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, in Seoul on Sept. 11 to talk about directions for new economic policies in Korea and the world.
President Moon...
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, just 157 days away, on Sept. 5.
To purchase PyeongChang tickets, sign up at the official...
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 other issues related to diplomacy and security, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 11.
President Moon...
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 his visit to Vladivostok, Russia. The leaders talked about issues of mutual interest, including North...
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, a city some 98 km north of Vladivostok that was once a major foothold of...
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 two leaders discussed various measures to develop bilateral relations and ways to jointly respond to...
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 Foreign Affairs)
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Kim Young Shin
The ASEAN Culture House, a venue that will play a...
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 develop a cooperative relationship between Seoul and Manila, at the Government Complex Seoul on Sept....
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 Olympic and Parlaympic Winter Games, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 5.
Appointed as an honorary...
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 = Mika Tuominen
Finnish author Tuomas Kyrö, known for his best-selling novel "Happy Days of the...
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, to celebrate the grand Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the "Sacrificial Feast."
Eid al-Adha is a Muslim holiday,...
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 at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 5.
Despite the serious security conditions facing the Korean Peninsula...
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 calls to leaders in Germany, the U.S. and Russia on Sept 4 to talk about...
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 the International Labour Organization (ILO) at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 4. In the meeting,...
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 after North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear weapons test. During the NSC meeting, President Moon...
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 Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith at the Government Complex Seoul on Aug. 30.
“Taking the expansion of...
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, on Aug. 31.
By Sohn JiAe and Kim Young Shin
Photos = PyeongChang Organizing Committee
The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination...
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, 2017
The barista stands before two cups of coffee, both complete with a rich topping of...
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. 6 and 7, Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Park Soo-hyun said on Sep. 1.
President Moon will...