President Moon Jae-in holds two phone calls with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, first on Nov. 29 immediately following North Korea’s latest long-range ballistic missile launch and then again on Nov. 30. Pictured is President Moon talking to President Trump at Cheong Wa Dae on Nov. 29. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in had a second phone conversation with...
Funded by the Korean government, the MUHAS Medical Center opens in Dar es Salaam on Nov. 25. (Minister of Strategy and Finance)
By Kim Eun-young and Yoon Sojung
The MUHAS Medical Center, a new hospital in Dar es Salaam, opened in the Tanzanian capital on Nov. 25 with support from the Korean government.
The Korean government helped establish the hospital through the Economic Development Cooperation...
Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Choi Jong-ku addresses the third annual ASEAN Ambassadors & Korean Bank CEOs dinner in Myeong-dong, Seoul, on Nov. 27. (Financial Services Commission)
By Kim Eun-young and Yoon Sojung
Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Choi Jong-ku emphasized the need to bolster cooperation with ASEAN member states on Nov. 27.
Chairman Choi was speaking at the third annual ASEAN Ambassadors & Korean...
President Moon Jae-in (right) and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena pose for a photo prior to a summit meeting in Seoul, at Cheong Wa Dae on Nov. 29.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena held summit talks in Seoul and affirmed their will to bolster bilateral cooperation in a substantial manner, at...
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jongwhan, President Lee Hee-beom of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee and other representatives unveil a clock tower that will count down 100 days until next year’s PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. The unveiling was part of the G-100 Festival held at the Korea Paralympic Committee Icheon Training Center in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do Province, on...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) lifted Korea’s economic growth outlook for 2017 to 3.2 percent, on Nov. 28. The photo above shows President Moon Jae-in (right) during a meeting with Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the OECD, at Cheong Wa Dae on Oct. 19. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Min Yea-Ji and Kim Young Shin
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (fifth from left), on an official state visit to Korea, poses for a group photo with attendants at a business forum for Korean and Sri Lankan business leaders, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Nov. 29.
By Lee Hana
Photo = Jeon Han
Seoul | Nov. 29, 2017
Korean and Sri Lankan government officials and business leaders came together at...
Myanmar's Parliamentary Speaker Mahn Winn Khaing Thann (left) and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon shake hands before their meeting at the Government Complex Seoul on Nov. 29. (Prime Minister’s Office)
By Kim Young Shin
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon held a meeting with Myanmar's Parliamentary Speaker Mahn Winn Khaing Thann and discussed ways to develop ties between the two countries, at the Government Complex...
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and ambassadors and businessmen from 68 nations pose for a photo during their visit to PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on Nov. 25, where the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
By Min Yea-Ji and Kim Young Shin
Diplomats and businessmen from 68 nations and seven international organizations headed to...
President Moon Jae-in speaks on North Korea’s latest launch of a long-range ballistic missile at an emergency meeting of the National Security Council at Cheong Wa Dae on Nov. 29.
By Jeon Han and Sohn JiAe
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
North Korea launched another long-range ballistic missile at around 3:17 a.m. on Nov. 29. Assumed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the launch...
President Moon Jae-in (center) poses for photos with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Nov. 28 at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul.
By Yoon Sojung
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena visited Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on Nov. 28, a day ahead of their scheduled bilateral summit meeting.
The two leaders visited the temple, headquarters to the...
By Korea.net Honorary Reporters Salwa Elzeny and Esraa Elzeny
Photos = Korea.net DB
Video = KBS World YouTube channel
The famous fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, the head creative director at the fashion house Chanel, once said, “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
With the development of fashion around the world and the difference of fashions year after year, traditional clothing remains...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Kim Sang-kon announces at the sixth ASEM Education Ministerial Meeting that education leaders have agreed to adopt the Seoul Declaration, at the Hotel Shilla in Seoul on Nov. 22. (Minister Kim's Facebook profile)
By Hur SomEe and Kim Young Shin
Education ministers from across Asia and Europe have agreed to adopt the Seoul Declaration, which aims to...
A memorial statue for the 'comfort women' showing three figures, representing young women from Korea, China and the Philippines, was set up on a pedestal at St. Mary's Square in San Francisco in September this year. (Steven Whyte's Facebook)
By Kang Gahui and Lee Hana
The dispute over a memorial statue for the "comfort women" set up in St. Mary's Square in San Francisco...
The KTX Gyeonggang high-speed train line that takes just 1 hour and 54 minutes to connect Seoul and Gangneung, one of the host cities in Gangwon-do Province for next year’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, is unveiled for non-Korean journalists and broadcasters at the Seoul Station on Nov. 21.
By Sohn JiAe
Photos = Jeon Han
Seoul l Nov. 21, 2017
A new...
Vietnamese Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, at the Government Complex Seoul on Nov. 21. (Prime Minister’s Office)
By Kim Young Shin
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon held meetings with Vietnamese Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh at the Government Complex Seoul on Nov. 21. They exchanged opinions about the developing ties between...
Incheon International Airport completed construction on its second passenger terminal at the end of September this year. It officially opens on Jan. 18, 2018, ahead of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
By Xu Aiying and Yoon Sojung
Photos = Jeon Han
Incheon | Nov. 21, 2017
The second passenger terminal at Incheon International Airport, slated to open on Jan. 18, 2018, was unveiled...
KCS Commissioner Kim Yung-moon (fourth from left) poses for a photo with his Salvadoran counterpart Jose Armando Flores Aleman and other senior officers from the customs department of El Salvador, at the Imperial Palace Hotel Seoul on Nov. 17. (Korea Customs Service)
By Lee Kyong Mi and Yoon Sojung
Korea has decided to actively support the modernization of the customs system in El Salvador.
The...
A welcome ceremony marks the arrival of the remains of independence fighter Li Yeosong and Lim Sungsil at Incheon International Airport on Nov. 15.
By Hur SomEe and Yoon Sojung
Photos = Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs
The remains of independence fighters who were buried overseas have come back home after more than 70 years.
The remains of two patriots -- Li Yeosong (이여송, 李如松)...
Minister of Environment Kim Eunkyung delivers the keynote speech at the COP23 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 15. (Ministry of Environment)
By Kim Young Shin
Korea has reaffirmed its support for the Paris Climate Agreement and has introduced its efforts to counter climate change, at the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the U.N....