President Park Geun-hye and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka pose for a picture at the Liechtenstein Palace in Prague on Dec. 3. The two leaders discussed further partnerships in nuclear energy, scientific research and national defense.
President Park Geun-hye met Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka on Dec. 3 at Prague Castle where they discussed measures to expand cooperation between the...
Korea and Vietnam have vowed to enhance bilateral cooperation on healthcare and medical services and on the forestry industry.
On Dec. 1, Minister of Health and Welfare Chung Chin-youb and his Vietnamese counterpart Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote stronger cooperation on healthcare and medical services.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chung Chin-youb (right)...
The wide world of Korean cuisine is most delicious when it comes to pork and vegetables, and today we would like to introduce you to boiled pork belly slices with kimchi, or bossam.
First, however, we must begin with the seasonal changes on the Korean Peninsula and preparations for the Korean winter. Korean cuisine is founded on the peninsula's geography...
Kimchi is well known as the iconic food of Korea.
Koreans have enjoyed vegetable-based diets for many centuries. To reflect such a food culture, people here have used various methods to store vegetables over the winter, such as salting and fermenting.
Varieties of kimchi have been developed and passed down through the generations based on the peninsula's regional characteristics. Among the...
A Korea-China joint academic conference was held on Nov. 26 in Seoul. It was part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Korean independence and the end of World War II.
The Northeast Asian History Foundation (NAHF) and the Institution of International Relations (IIRS), part of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), co-hosted the conference. It was titled "70...
The two Koreas reached an agreement on Nov. 26 to hold bilateral talks on Dec. 11. South Korean chief delegate Kim Ki-woong (right) and his North Korean counterpart Hwang Chol (left) shake hands at the beginning of their meeting in the truce village of Panmunjeom.
South and North Korea have agreed to hold bilateral talks next month...
Ministers of culture raise their joint agreement during the second Korea-Central Asia Culture Ministers’ Meeting, at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju on Nov. 25.
Korea and five Central Asian countries have agreed to host a Korea-Central Asia festival in 2017 that will cover culture and tourism. They have also agreed to hold meetings among culture ministers...
President Park Geun-hye will leave for Paris on Nov. 29 to attend the COP21 climate summit. She will then pay a state visit to Prague and meet with leaders from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The above photo shows G20 leaders in Turkey where President Park attended the G20 Antalya Summit on Nov. 16.
President...
Major works by Peter Rubens (1577-1640) that are currently part of the Liechtenstein Princely Collections will soon be on display at the National Museum of Korea.
Entitled “Rubens and Other Masters,” the exhibit will showcase paintings by the Flemish Baroque masters: Peter Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Pieter Brueghel de Oude, among others. The exhibit opens on Dec. 12 and...
Social enterprises are generally small companies that make a profit by engaging in business activities ranging from production to sales, while at the same time providing people, especially those in need, with services or jobs. Their aim is to improve the quality of life for both their employees and for their host communities.
In Korea, many social enterprises operate nationwide,...
Slow City Light Makgeoli offers a taste that is unique and fresh, and both sour and sweet, along with its bubbly carbonation.
The milky white of rice beer, or makgeoli, fills the cup.
The soft flavor, clean and light, leads to another pour.
The key to its unique taste is the harmony between the sour and sweet taste and...
Fourteen bloggers from Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines and elsewhere arrived in Korea on Nov. 18. They were guests of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and were here to spend four days sightseeing around the country.
They were selected based on their applications submitted to the KTO’s Visit Korea website (www.visitkorea.or.kr).
In Seoul, the bloggers were given an opportunity to explore...
At its core, Korean cuisine is based on the geography of the Korean Peninsula itself. The land creates the cuisine; or, to put it another way, the cuisine evolves from the Earth. Surrounded by water on three sides, and mountainous from top to bottom, the Korean Peninsula is home to a wide, wide range of meats and seafoods, of...
The "Annals of the Joseon Dynasty" has some ups and downs in its quality as a reliable record depending on who wrote it and how the person wrote it.
Since Joseon society had political division between the "east" and "west" factions, its records are very much swayed by which faction is in power. Concerning the same person, one faction...
President Park Geun-hye and ASEAN leaders attend the 18th ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 21.
President Park Geun-hye has expressed her hope that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a community that is pursuing a single market and a symbiotic society enjoyed by about 600 million people, would be the driving force...
President Park (fifth from left) joins hands with ASEAN leaders during the 17th ASEAN-Republic of Korea Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 22.
President Park Geun-hye emphasized the creation of "a society free from war and free from weapons of mass destruction” on Nov. 22 in Malaysia.
During the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) multilateral summit, held in...
Korea has a long tradition of recording the doings of the kings and royal household in official documents.
The "Annals of the Joseon Dynasty" (조선왕조실록, 朝鮮王朝實錄), which recorded the times and reign of every Joseon king for nearly 500 years, is one of the few pieces of evidence we have of this tradition. A primary source of this size and...
Korea and Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that covers legislative exchange and cooperation, in Seoul on Nov. 4.
The MOU, signed by the Ministry of Government Legislation and Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, stipulates increased exchanges between people and the sharing of legislative information and expertise in legal informatics.
Korea and Cambodia sign an MOU on legislative exchange and cooperation...
President Park Geun-hye shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a summit held on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Manila on Nov. 18.
Korea-Canada summit
President Park Geun-hye, currently on a trip to Manila to attend the 23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, met with her Canadian counterpart, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on...
At its core, Korean cuisine is based on the geography of the Korean Peninsula itself. The land creates the cuisine; or, to put it another way, the cuisine evolves from the Earth. Surrounded by water on three sides, and mountainous from top to bottom, the Korean Peninsula is home to a wide, wide range of fish and vegetables.
The peninsula...