French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and President Moon Jae-in meet at Hamburg Messe on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in held a series of summit meetings with world leaders during his visit to Hamburg for the G20 Summit. He met leaders from Vietnam, India, Australia, Canada...
President Moon Jae-in (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for talks on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first summit meeting on July 7 in Hamburg, Germany, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit.
The two presidents discussed various...
President Moon Jae-in (front row, far right) poses for a group photo with other world leaders at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and the other G20 leaders adopted a joint communiqué following the two-day G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8, highlighting free trade and a strong...
President Moon Jae-in (second from right) discusses ways to boost cooperation with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres (left), on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in met with heads of the U.N. and the World Bank on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Germany to talk...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (front row, fifth from left), the host of the G20 Summit this year, says in a press briefing following the G20 Retreat Session on July 7 that all the leaders expressed a collective concern over North Korea. In the photo above, leaders of the G20 countries and other international organizations pose for a photo before...
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter John Paul Vergonia
Photos = John Paul Vergonia
Who would have taught that a quiet place here in the Philippines was once occupied by a Roman Catholic Korean saint?
The Shrine of St. Andrew Kim Taegon is in Bocaue, Bulacan, in the Philippines.
In the municipal town of Bocaue, in Bulacan Province in the Philippines, just north of Manila, a captivating...
President Moon Jae-in is invited to speak at the Körber Foundation where he outlines his administration's peace initiatives, at Berlin's Old City Hall on July 6.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in was invited to speak at the Körber Foundation and in his speech at Berlin's Old City Hall on July 6 he announced his administration's peace initiatives...
President Moon Jae-in (left) poses for a photo with Donald Trump (center) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ahead of a trilateral dinner in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Yoon Sojung
President Moon Jae-in attended a dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Hamburg on July 6 ahead of the upcoming...
President Moon Jae-in (second from left) holds talks with his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping where they discussed issues of mutual interest, in Berlin on July 6.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in, on an official state visit to Germany, met with his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping in Berlin on July 6. They discussed ways to further...
Moody’s Investors Service maintains Korea’s credit rating at Aa2, while improving the economy's 2017 growth outlook to 2.8 percent, up 0.3 percent, considering the robust economic growth seen in the first quarter of the year. (Korea.net database)
By Sohn JiAe
Moody’s Investors Service has kept Korea’s credit rating at Aa2.
According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the ratings firm announced its...
The Sistine Chapel Choir, one of the oldest religious choirs in the world and based in Vatican City, performs at Seoul's Myeongdong Cathedral on July 5. (Catholic Bishop's Conference of Korea)
By Kang Gahui and Lee Hana
The Sistine Chapel Choir, one of the oldest religious choirs in the world and based in Vatican City, has made its first ever visit to Korea, celebrating...
Tashkent Mayor Rakhmonbek Usmanov (left) and Seoul Mayor Park Won Soon shake hands at the unveiling of a monument to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of ethnic Koreans to Uzbekistan, at Seoul Park in Tashkent on July 3. (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
By Xu Aiying and Kim Young Shin
Near the main gate of Seoul Park in Tashkent, a monument was erected on...
German Ambassador to Korea Stephan Auer emphasizes the potential growth of Korea-Germany cooperation, during an interview with Korea.net in Seoul on June 21.
By Yoon Sojung and Min Yea-Ji
Photos = Jeon Han
Seoul | June 21, 2017
“People-to-people exchanges were the foundation that led to the development of Korea-Germany relations.”
So said German Ambassador to Korea Stephan Auer, highlighting the past, present and future of the bilateral...
President Moon Jae-in (left) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier hold summit talks at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin on July 5.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in, currently on an official visit to Germany, and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier held a summit meeting in Berlin on June 5. The two presidents discussed issues involving the Korean Peninsula and...
President Moon Jae-in (second from right) gives a presidential award to Karl Hauser (second from left), an engineer who served with a German medical team after the Korean War (1950-53), while first lady Kim Jung-sook (right) and Hauser's spouse exchange remarks, in Berlin on July 5.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in, in Germany on an official state...
President Moon Jae-in (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold a press conference prior to their summit, at the chancellor’s offices in Berlin on July 5.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in held a summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her offices in Berlin on July 5. The two leaders talked about ways to further enhance bilateral...
The Korean National Ballet performs ‘Heo Nanseolheon-Suwolkyeonghwa' (허난설헌-수월경화), a modern ballet based on the poems of Joseon poet Heo Nanseolheon, at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogota. In the photo above, dancers are depicting falling lotus petals as described in her poem 'Mongyu gwangsang san' (몽유광상산). (Korean National Ballet)
By Kim Ji Hoe and Kim Young Shin
Korean ballet dancers for...
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been operating its late-night 'owl buses' (올빼미 버스) since 2013. Starting on June 26 this year, it has started operating early-morning 'chipmunk buses' (다람쥐 버스), too. (Seoul Metropolitan Government)
By Xu Aiying and Kim Young Shin
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has introduced four new bus routes that connect the capital region's busiest spots, it announced on June 26.
Bus No....
President Moon Jae-in speaks during a National Security Council meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on July 4, following the launch of a North Korean ballistic missile.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in announced that his government would sternly respond to any further provocations from North Korea, as he convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC)...
David Cameron (left), former British prime minister, is greeted by President Moon Jae-in where they will discuss Korea-U.K. cooperation, at Cheong Wa Dae on July 4. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Lee Hana
President Moon Jae-in met with former British Prime Minister David Cameron at Cheong Wa Dae on July 4 to discuss Korea-U.K. cooperation as well as measures to solve North Korean...