By Lee Kyung Mi and Kim Minji
Video = Presidential Security Service
Cheong Wa Dae, located at the foot of Inwangsan Mountain in Seoul’s central district of Jongno-gu, is surrounded by 50,000 trees spanning 180 species from all over the country. Such lush greenery creates a green look around the presidential office.
Cheong Wa Dae on Jan. 7 released a documentary video on the trees...
The late British war hero William Speakman-Pitt, a Korean War veteran also known as Bill Speakman, in April 2015 talks about his wartime memories during a visit to Seoul. (Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs)
By Kang Gahui and Kim Young Shin
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs on Jan. 3 said it will honor the wish of the late William Speakman-Pitt, a...
This photo shows Korean freedom fighter and martyr Yu Gwan-sun as an inmate at Seodaemun Prison in Seoul. Politicians in the U.S. state of New York on Jan. 14 will introduce a bill to designate March 1 as Yu Gwan-sun Day. (National Institute of Korean History)
By Kang Gahui and Yoon Sojung
A bill proposing the designation of a day to honor Korean independence...
The statue located in Yongsan Station square honors Koreans who were forced to work during Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Korea.net DB)
By Min Yea-Ji and Kim Minji
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Jan. 3 expressed “deep remorse” over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s statement that the issue of Korean forced laborers during Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula was...
President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 2 delivers his New Year’s address at the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business in Seoul. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Kim Young Shin
President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 2 stressed the importance of innovation for the well-being of everyone in society at a New Year’s reception held at the Korean Federation of Small and Medium Business...
"Mammals of Korea" is the first English-language guide on 127 mammal species on the Korean Peninsula
By = Xu Aiying and Kim Minji
Photos = Ministry of Environment
A government think tank on Jan. 2 released the first English-language guide to the 127 mammal species living on the Korean Peninsula.
"Mammals of Korea," published by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), covers not only the...
President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 2 burns incense at the Seoul National Cemetery in the Dongjak-gu district of the capital. (Hyoja-dong Studio)
By Kim Young Deok and Yoon Sojung
President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 2 began his first official schedule of 2019 by visiting Seoul National Cemetery in the Dongjak-gu district of the capital, paying his respects to the patriots buried there.
Arriving at 8...
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon (left) and Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Dec. 19 hold a meeting in Tunis.
By Park Hye Ri and Kim Young Shin
Photos = Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon’s Facebook
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has wrapped up visits to Tunisia and Morocco after his trip to Algeria, having held meetings with his counterparts and attending business forums in his North African...
Dalah Park inside Hallyeohaesang National Park in Tongyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, has a sunset observatory with a wonderful view of sunlight reflected on the sea with islands big and small.
By Kim Young Shin
Photos = Korea National Park Service
Many Koreans watch the sunset or sunrise on the last or first day of the year to reflect on the past 12 months and...
Korean Cultural Centers around the world in 2018 hosted a number of exciting events. Highlights included (clockwise from top left) a live screening in Mexico of the year’s first inter-Korean summit on April 27, a pep rally for the World Cup soccer finals in Russia on June 24, a Korean indie film festival in Germany starting from Nov. 4...
This is the personal letter sent on Dec. 30 by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to President Moon Jae-in. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Park Gil-ja and Yoon Sojung
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Dec. 30 sent a personal letter to President Moon Jae-in expressing Kim’s intent to hold inter-Korean meetings more often and work together for peace, prosperity and the denuclearization...
Dalah Park inside Hallyeohaesang National Park in Tongyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, has a sunset observatory with a wonderful view of sunlight reflected on the sea with islands big and small.
By Kim Young Shin
Photos = Korea National Park Service
Many Koreans watch the sunset or sunrise on the last or first day of the year to reflect on the past 12 months and...
Young Korean girls in June 1944 brought to Mitsubishi Nagoya Aircraft Works in Japan for forced labor march with their Japanese instructors at Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya. (Civic Alliance Supporting Korean Women Victims of Forced Labor)
By Kim Eun-young and Kim Young Shin
Anyang | Dec. 18, 2018
For 74 years, all Kim Sung-ju wished for was to hear the word “sorry.” What made her...
President Moon Jae-in (right) on March 15 takes part in a briefing session on measures for youth employment at the Yeongbingwan Guest House of Cheong Wa Dae. (Hyoja-dong Studio)
By Park Gil-ja and Kim Minji
President Moon Jae-in has been chosen 2018’s person of the year in a domestic survey of Korean adults.
The polling agency Realmeter, which conducted the poll on 501 adults on...
Officials from the two Koreas on Dec. 26 hold a groundbreaking ceremony for an inter-Korean network of railroads and highways at Panmun Station in Gaeseong, North Korea.
By Kim Young Deok and Lee Hana
Photos = Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
For the first time in 70 years, roads and railways connecting the two Koreas have been reconnected, laying the foundation for the Northeast...
Cheong Wa Dae on Dec. 25 posts a photo of six puppies on its Facebook account as part of its Christmas greeting. The puppies are the offspring of Gomi, one of two Pungsan breed dogs received as gifts by President Moon Jae-in from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Oh Hyun-woo and Yoon Sojung
Influential figures from in and out...
President Moon Jae-in on Dec. 20 delivers opening statements at the National Defense Ministry on policy goals for 2019. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Park Gil-ja and Kim Young Shin
The Moon Jae-in administration on Dec. 20 highlighted the importance of creating as well as defending peace under a newly released guideline for policies toward foreign affairs, unification and defense.
The guideline, which has the highest...
The exhibition “The Enchanting Journey to Korean Civilization” is being held at the National Museum of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia through March 7, 2019.
By Kim Eun-young and Kim Young Shin
Photos = National Museum of Korea
Relics representing Korea’s rich history and heritage from 700,000 years ago through 1910 are being displayed at the National Museum of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
The National Museum of...
Justice Minister Park Sang-ki (center) and four naturalized Koreans honored as “exemplary citizens” on Dec. 19 pose for photos at Government Complex-Gwacheon in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do Province.
By Park Hye Ri and Yoon Sojung
Photos = Ministry of Justice
The descendant of an independence fighter now serving in the Korea Coast Guard. An entrepreneur who recorded USD 10 million in exports in 2016 and helps the...
Chairman Han Wan-sang, Minister Kim Boo-kyum, descendants of people of merit are unveiling the tower of 100th anniversary of March First Independence Movement and provisional government establishment, in ceremony held in Gwanghwamun Square on Dec. 20.
By Kim Minji
Photos = Jeon Han
"100th anniversary square"
Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul gained a new name on Dec. 20 in an unveiling ceremony for a tower...