President Yoon Suk Yeol (right) on Nov. 17 poses for photos with visiting Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the presidential residence in the Hannam-dong neighborhood of Seoul's Yongsan-gu District.
President Yoon, Saudi prince discuss energy, defense industry, infrastructure
By Jung Joo-ri
Photos = Office of the President
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Nov. 17 held talks with visiting Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin...
From left are Won Spirits CEO Jay Park, Damhwa CEO Lee Jaeook, Korea Studio Sool Director Park Rokdam and Won Spirits Chief Communications Officer Kim Hee-jun.
By Min Yea-Ji
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
Video = Lee Jun Young
Rapper Psy's music video "Hangover" from 2014 offers a glimpse of Korean drinking culture.
After giving a toast, he slightly tilts his head to the side, takes a sip...
The country's largest game exhibition "Game Show and Trade, All Round 2022" (G-Star) was opened on Nov. 17 at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, or BEXCO.
By Yoo Yeon Gyeong
Photos = Yoo Yeon Gyeong
Busan
The global game expo "Game Show and Trade, All Round 2022" (G-Star) on Nov. 17 was opened at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO) to highlight the...
President Yoon Suk Yeol from Nov. 11-16 went on a four-night, six-days tour of Cambodia and Indonesia. From Nov. 11-13, he attended the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deliver his Korea-ASEAN solidarity vision for cooperation with ASEAN member states and took part in the ASEAN Plus Three Summit and East Asia Summit afterwards. Nov. 13 saw him hold bilateral summits with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese...
The Ministry of Justice is seeking to boost protection of the human rights of seasonal foreign workers. Shown are such laborers at a farm in Goesan-gun County, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. (Goesan-gun County Office)
By Lee Kyoung Mi
Seasonal foreign workers in Korea will receive better legal guarantees of their human rights.
The Ministry of Justice on Nov. 16 announced measures to strengthen protection of human rights for such workers including...
From left are newly elected Reps. Marilyn Strickland (Democrat-Washington), Young Kim (Republican-California) and Michelle Steel (Republican-California) and reelected Rep. Andy Kim (Democrat-New Jersey). (Screen captures from their official websites)
By Kim Hayeon
All four Korean American politicians who ran for Congress in the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8 won their respective races.
Along with Rep. Andy Kim (Democrat-New Jersey) and newly elected legislators Marilyn Strickland (Democrat-Washington) and Young...
President Yoon Suk Yeol on the evening of Nov. 15 is greeted by well-wishers before making his flight home at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia.
President Yoon returns home after 1st summit with China in Bali
By Xu Aiying
Photos = Office of the President
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Nov. 16 returned home after completing his Southeast Asian tour to attend summits of the Association...
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will co-organize with the Korea Creative Content Agency "Korea: Cubically Imagined," an exhibition under the theme of technological convergence running from Nov. 16 to Dec. 4 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Shown is the work "Beach-Aurora" by the Korean digital media design company D'strict.
By Park Hye Ri
Photos = Ministry of Culture,...
Daejeon Mayor Lee Jang Woo (third from left), Sejong Mayor Choi Min-ho (fourth from left), Chungcheongbuk-do Province Gov. Kim Young-hwan (third from right), Chungcheongnam-do Province Gov. Kim Tae-heum (second from right), and officials from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korean Sport and Olympic Committee on Nov. 12 cheer after Korea won the right to host the 2027 Summer World...
President Yoon Suk Yeol (second from left) on Nov. 13 attends a trilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden (center of the middle table) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (second from right) and poses for a commemorative photo in a hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
By Min Yea-Ji
Photos = Office of the President
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Nov. 13 held bilateral summits with...
To mark Dokdo Day on Oct. 25, the Northeast Asian History Foundation invited Korea.net Honorary Reporters to go on a trip from Nov. 1-4 to the islands of Ulleungdo and Dokdo. Dokdo Day was designated in 2000 by the private organization A Party for Tokdo Protection to mark the occasion when Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire on Oct....
By Park Hye Ri
Video = Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism's official YouTube channel
The Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism's "Save Uniform" campaign launched last year has won a bronze honor at this year's Clio Sports Awards.
The ministry on Nov. 11 said it was the first Korean government department to receive a sports Clio at the Nov. 9 awards ceremony in New York.
The campaign aims to expand the...
President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Bali, Indonesia, to attend summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Group of 20 (G20) economies. The photo shows he and first lady Kim Keon Hee on Sept. 18 saying bye to the crowd before departing for London on the first leg of his trip to the U.K., U.S. and...
Ambassador on Climate and the Environment Na Kyung-won on Nov. 8 gives a speech at the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
By Lee Kyoung Mi
Ambassador on Climate and the Environment Na Kyung-won, who is attending the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, as a...
Jordanian Ambassador to Korea Asal Al Tal on Sept. 13 gives an exclusive interview to Korea.net at her embassy in Seoul's Yongsan-gu District. With this year marking the 60th anniversary of bilateral ties, she said she hopes for stronger cooperation in sectors such as tourism, investment, advanced agricultural technology, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and health and welfare. (Kim Sunjoo)
By Yoo Yeon Gyeong and...
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Nov. 7 said it will host the 16th Global Sustainable Tourism Council's Asia-Pacific Sustainable Tourism Conference jointly with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Shown here is a picture taken from the 10th conference held in 2016 from March 29 to April 1 in Seoul. (UNWTO's official flicker)
By Jung Joo-ri
Public officials from 20 countries in...
BTS over the past decade has had the most No. 1 songs on Billboard's main singles chart Hot 100. (BTS' official Twitter)
BTS has most No. 1 hits on Hot 100 chart this decade: Billboard
By Lee Jihae
BTS over the past decade has had the most No. 1 songs on Billboard's main singles chart Hot 100 of any artist worldwide.
The boy band's management agency Big Hit Music...
Two miners who were trapped in a zinc mine for nine days in Bonghwa-gun County, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, are safely escorted out of the mine on Nov. 4 at 11:03 p.m. by rescue workers. (National Fire Agency)
By Yoo Yeon Gyeong
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Nov. 5 thanked and expressed his wishes for a quick recovery to two miners who were rescued after being trapped in a zinc...
Three European veterans who served with the United Nations Command in the Korean War will be buried at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in Korea located in Busan: (from left) Robert Picquenard from France and Mathias Hubertus Hoogenboom and Eduard Julius Engberink from Netherlands. (Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs)
By Park Hye Ri
Three European veterans who helped the Republic of Korea military during the Korean War (1950-53) under...
The photos show handwritten scripts for the country's first six-dot Hangeul braille system before (left) and after their restoration. (National Archives of Korea)
By Kim Hyelin
The National Archives of Korea of the Ministry of Interior and Safety on Nov. 3 said handwritten manuscripts for Hangeul Jeomja (Braille) and their related records were restored to mark National Braille Day (Nov. 4).
Designated a National Registered Cultural Heritage, Hangeul...