The Arts Council Korea holds a press conference about having been nominated as the guest of honor at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt theater festival, at Artist House in the Daehak-ro neighborhood of Seoul on March 22.
By Min Yea-Ji and Yoon Jihye
Photos = Arts Council Korea
Korea has been chosen as the guest of honor at the 2018 Heidelberger Stückemarkt, a theater festival that will...
The exhibition 'Rhee Seundja: Road to the Antipode' opens in the Gwacheon Gallery 2 and in the Main Hall at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on March 22. The photo shows one of the Rhee's works that depicts the view from an airplane window as she travelled between Korea and France.
By Xu Aiying and Hahm Hee-eun
Photos = National Museum...
Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong (third from left) joins hands with ministers from five Central American countries at the Korea-Central America Free Trade Agreements (FTA) signing ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul on February 21. (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy)
By Kim Eun-young and Lee Hana
Korea has signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with five Central American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador,...
As President Moon Jae-in visits Vietnam, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Paik Ungyu (right) and Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh sign a memorandum of understanding covering bilateral trade that’s expected to be worth some USD 100 billion by 2020, in Hanoi on March 22. (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy)
By Jung Joo-ri and Hahm Hee-eun
Among Korea’s...
President Moon Jae-in (right) shakes hands with football coach Park Hang-seo, head of the Vietnamese national men's soccer team, at the team's training center on March 22.
By Sohn JiAe and Yoon Jihye
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
On March 22, President Moon Jae-in met football coach Park Hang-seo, who has emerged as a soccer hero in Vietnam, as the first scheduled item on his...
Kim Dong Yeon, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, attends the G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors Meeting and talks about the major challenges facing the global economy, in Buenos Aires on March 20.
By Kim Eun-young and Hahm Hee-eun
Photo = Ministry of Strategy and Finance
Kim Dong Yeon, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, is attending the G20 Finance Ministers...
More than 100,000 people visited the K-Food Plaza near the Olympic Plaza in Pyeongchang to sample some delicious Korean food. The photo shows non-Korean tourists making some Korean food in a cooking class on Feb. 20.
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Hahm Hee-eun
Photos = Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
The "K-Food Plaza," a food pavilion open for 34 days during the PyeongChang...
The first round of the Korea-China FTA Subsequent Negotiations, to discuss ways to open markets in services and investments, takes place at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on March 22.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Jeon Han
Seoul l March 22, 2018
Korea and China have begun to discuss ways to expand services and investments between the two.
On March 22, the first round of the Korea-China...
Vietnamese students studying in Korea pose for a commemorative photo in front of the Sangchunjae Hall at Cheong Wa Dae before a lunch with first lady Kim Jung-sook on March 8. (Jeon Han)
By Sohn JiAe
Video = Kim Sunjoo
All relationships go through ups and downs, and this is sometimes referred to in Chinese characters as buchim (부침, 浮沈).
The relationship between Korea and Vietnam, for...
Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan (left) and Bank of Korea Governor Lee Juyeol shake hands after signing a bilateral currency swap agreement, in Zurich on Feb. 20.
By Kim Eun-young and Lee Hana
Korea and Switzerland have signed a bilateral currency swap agreement that will enable its central banks to purchase or repurchase KRW 11.2 trillion, or around CHF 10 million.
The deal was...
President Moon Jae-in (second from left) speaks during the second general meeting of the preparation committee that's handling the upcoming inter-Korean talks, at Cheong Wa Dae on March 21.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
South Korea suggested that a meeting between high-ranking officials from the two Koreas should be held at the Panmunjom Tongilgak Pavilion on March 29, prior to...
President Moon Jae-in (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hold a phone call on March 20 to talk about working together on free trade and toward a peaceful resolution for Korean Peninsula issues. The photo shows the two leaders at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Yoon Sojung
President Moon Jae-in and Canadian Prime...
Starting on March 20, non-citizens who are married to a Korean citizen will now be indicated on the citizen's residence registration. Pictured are non-citizen residents getting advice at a local counseling center in Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do Province. (Ansan City Hall)
By Kim Tae Won and Sohn JiAe
Non-citizens who are married to a Korean citizen will now be indicated on the citizen's resident registration alongside...
First lady Kim Jung-sook gives a tour of the presidential mansion to a group of 16 Vietnamese students, at Cheong Wa Dae on March 8. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
Seoul l March 8, 2018
First lady Kim Jung-sook invited a group of Vietnamese students studying in Korea to Cheong Wa Dae to talk with them over lunch and to share with...
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) started to offer a toll-free travel hotline accessible anywhere around the world via a smartphone app on March 19. (KTO)
By Xu Aiying and Yoon Sojung
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on March 19 that it would start to provide a toll-free travel information service from anywhere in the world.
The 1330 Korea Travel Hotline service is a telephone...
Non-Korean visitors enjoy themselves as they take commemorative photos at the PyeongChang Olympic Plaza before the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics on March 18.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Special Report Team
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
Pyeongchang | March 19, 2018
There was no need for concern that the Paralympics would be less enjoyable than the Olympics.
Pyeongchang was still full of life, with people...
Jang Dong-shin, who scored a bronze-winning goal in the para ice hockey mixed bronze medal match, talks about the game and the Paralympics in general at the Gangneung Olympic Park on March 17.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Special Report Team
Photo = Park Jang-bhin
Gangneung | March 18, 2018
Just three minutes and 18 seconds before the game ends, it was a 0:0 tie.
Jung Seung-hwan made...
Henrieta Farkasova (left) and her guide runner, Natalia Subrtova, who won four gold medals in the women's visually impaired alpine skiing competition, pose for a photo at the PyeongChang Olympic Plaza in Gangwon-do on March 17. (Kim Sunjoo)
By Korea.net PyeongChang Special Report Team
Gangneung | March 17, 2018
Henrieta Farkasova of Slovakia is the only women’s visually impaired alpine skier at the...
Two days before the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, Kim Bong Rae talks about the Olympic bidding procedure while showing some of the older signs he used to bid for Pyeongchang. He says, 'It would be difficult to have a greater fortune than the Olympics. Thanks to the Olympics, Gangwon-do Province has achieved huge economic...
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jongwhan says on March 17 that the government will do its utmost to support people with disabilities make changes in their lives. He was speaking during Paralympic Team Night at Korea House at the Gangneung Olympic Park in Gangneung.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Special Report Team
Photo = Park Jang-bhin
Gangneung | March 17, 2018
“Every flower blooms...