With more than 20,000 daily users, Gangneung Station has become the gateway to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and a new attraction for tourists. The photo shows a traditional march and percussion performance in front of the station on Feb. 15.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Olympics Team
Photos = Jeon Han
Gangneung | Feb. 15, 2018
Gangneung Station is the end of the high-speed...
The 2018 men’s skeleton Olympic champion Yun Sungbin (center) poses for a photo at the PyeongChang Medal Plaza on Feb. 16. From left: Nikita Tregubov from Russia, Yun and Dom Parsons from the U.K.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Olympics Team
Photos = Jeon Han
Gangneung | Feb. 16, 2018
The medal plaza at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games was full of Olympic fever on Feb. 16,...
A North Korean brass band and cheering squad, currently visiting South Korea to mark the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, performs at the Live Site at the Gangneung Olympic Park on Feb. 15.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Olympics Team
Photos = Jeon Han
Gangneung | Feb. 15, 2018
A North Korean brass band and cheering squad entertained Olympic fans from around the globe when it performed...
The official ‘Go PyeongChang’ mobile app for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games helps visitors to reach Olympic venues in the fastest and easiest manner possible. (captured image from the app)
By Hur SomEe and Sohn JiAe
A mobile app is now on hand that offers the fastest and easiest way to get to PyeongChang Olympic venues in Pyeongchang, Gangneung and Jeongseon,...
Six government organizations, including the Korean Food Promotion Institute and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, introduced their “10 Korean Recipes Loved Around the World” in September 2016, targeting non-Korean tourists who will visit Korea for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The aim is to help tourists enjoy Korean cuisine and widen their understanding of...
President Moon Jae-in (right) shakes hands with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg before their summit at Cheong Wa Dae on Feb. 15.
By Sohn JiAe and Yoon Jihye
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, currently in Korea for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, on Feb. 15 and discussed ways to bolster...
IOC member Ryu Seung Min (left), IOC President Thomas Bach (center) and President of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee Lee Kee-Heung pose for a photo at a soiree hosted by Korea House, in Gangneung on Feb. 13.
By Kang Gahui and Lee Hana
Photos = Korean Sport & Olympic Committee
At a soiree hosted by Korea House in Gangneung on Feb. 13, International Olympic...
Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (left) meets with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Kim Dong Yeon at the presidential palace in Uzbekistan on Feb. 13.
By Park Hye Ri and Lee Hana
Photos = Ministry of Strategy and Finance
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy & Finance Kim Dong Yeon met with Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent on Feb. 13...
At the Hoengseong Rest Stop along the Yeongdong Expressway, you can taste some delicious hwangtae pollack soup with chodang soft tofu (left) and a beef steak minced with rice cake and deodeok root.
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Yoon Jihye
Photos = Korea Expressway Corporation
While the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the world's biggest winter Olympic sporting festival, are in full swing in Korea right now, the Seollal...
The National Folk Museum of Korea will entertain museum-goers with traditional programs during the Seollal Lunar New Year’s holiday. Pictured is a group of children playing the four-stick board game, yutnori.
By Kim Eun-young and Sohn JiAe
Photos = Korea.net DB
One of Korea’s biggest holiday, Seollal Lunar New Year’s, is approaching.
During the upcoming national holiday, running for four days from Feb. 15 to 18 inclusive,...
French Minister of Sports Laura Flessel (left) and Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jongwhan pose for a photo after signing a memorandum of understanding covering sport exchanges between the two countries, at the Hotel Lotte in Seoul on Feb. 12. (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
By Xu Aiying and Yoon Jihye
Sports ministers from 14 countries, including France, Poland, Georgia and...
President Moon Jae-in (right) and Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis shake hands after holding bilateral talks at Cheong Wa Dae on Feb. 13. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Lee Hana
President Moon Jae-in met with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, currently in Korea for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games, for bilateral talks at Cheong Wa Dae on Feb. 13.
President Moon talked about the recently improved...
Kim Yong-nam (left), president of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Kim Yo-jong (third from left), deputy director for North Korea's Workers’ Party’s Department of Propaganda and Agitation, pose for a photo with Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon ahead of a luncheon at Walkerhill Hotel in Gwangjin-gu District, Seoul, on Feb. 11. (Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon's Facebook)
By Hur...
Spokesperson Baik Tae Hyun of the Ministry of Unification delivers the daily briefing at the Government Complex Seoul on Feb. 12. (Ministry of Unification)
By Kim Young Shin
The Ministry of Unification said that the recent visit by North Korea’s high-level delegation to the South “provided the opportunity to enhance the ongoing flow, to restore inter-Korean relations” and that it “emphasized the...
The song 'Power' by the Korean pop group EXO has become the first Korean pop song to be played at the Dubai Fountain. (Sara Embaby)
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Sara Embaby
The Dubai Fountain, the world's tallest performing fountain, has added to its playlist a song by the Korean pop sensation EXO.
The song “Power” marks the first time that the Dubai Fountain has...
President Moon Jae-in (second from left) talks to President Kim Yong-nam of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (third from left) and Kim Yo-jong (fourth from left), deputy director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Department of Propaganda and Agitation, after a performance by Pyongyang’s Samjiyon Orchestra in Seoul on Feb. 11.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon...
President Moon Jae-in (fourth from left, third row), President Thomas Bach of the International Olympic Committee (fifth from left, third row), President Kim Yong-nam of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (sixth from left, third row) and Kim Yo-jong (seventh from left, third row), deputy director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Department of Propaganda and Agitation, watch...
Excited supporters raise the unified Korea flag and shout, ‘We are one!’ while watching a televised screening of the first Olympic match for the inter-Korean women’s ice hockey team, at Gangneung’s Hwang Young-cho Gymnasium on Feb. 10.
By Korea.net PyeongChang Olympics Team
Photos = Jeon Han
Gangneung | Feb. 10, 2018
“We are one!”
Crowds cheering for the inter-Korean women’s ice hockey team during its first...
A pre-Opening Ceremony reception for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games is held at the Yongpyong Resort Bliss Hill Stay on Feb. 9. The three-course menu for VIP guests drew inspiration from the Olympic spirit of celebration, harmony and hope.
By Lee Hana
Photos = Kim Sunjoo
Pyeongchang | Feb. 9, 2018
A pre-Opening Ceremony reception for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games has harnessed the...
Kim Yo-jong (left), the leader of the North Korean high-level delegation currently in South Korea, shakes hands with President Moon Jae-in after delivering a signed letter from her brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to the president, at Cheong Wa Dae on Feb. 10.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae Facebook
President Moon Jae-in received an invitation to North Korea from...