KOCIS
Korean cultural centers hold annual meeting
Director Kim Tae-hoon of the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) delivers the opening address to kick start the annual meeting of directors from...
Two Koreas to enter PyeongChang under one flag
Vice Minister of Unification Chun Hae-Sung (second from left) and North Korea’s Vice Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country...
Second terminal makes Incheon airport ‘smart’: president
President Moon Jae-in (second from right) and Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mee (right) insert tickets into machines, alongside some airline employees,...
NK to send orchestra to PyeongChang: unification ministry
Director Kwon Hyok Bong (left) of North Korea’s Performing Arts Bureau, part of the North Korean culture ministry, and Deputy Minister for Culture and...
President Moon meets Mongolian PM
President Moon Jae-in (right) shakes hands with Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh following their meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on Jan. 15. (Cheong Wa...
Gwanghwamun Square torch relay shows 600 years of history
The torch for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games is delivered by Lee Hong Bae (left), the chair of Dae Han Imperial House, who...
PM invites Facebook friends to watch movie ‘1987: When the Day Comes’
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon (center) poses with some of his Facebook acquaintances at the Piccadilly 1958 CGV theater in Jongno-gu District, Seoul, on Jan....
10 countries qualify for PyeongChang figure skating team event
The list of 10 teams, including Korea, that will participate in the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games figure skating team event is finalized on...
Researchers explore Korean dog DNA
Recent research conducted by the Rural Development Administration reveals that dog breeds that originate in Korea, such as the Jindo (진돗개), the Pungsan (풍산개)...
‘See you in PyeongChang, hand-in-hand’
Henna Puumala, a Finnish volunteer that will serve as an interpreter at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, holds up plush toys of the...
Take responsibility for national security: President Moon
President Moon Jae-in (right) awards a samjeonggeom sword to Kwon Myoung Ok, one of Korea's newly-appointed brigadier generals, at the Yeongbingwan Guest House at Cheong Wa...
Korea, US affirm ‘no military activity’ during N. Korea talks
President Moon Jae-in speaks to his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, on Jan. 10. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Lee Hana
President Moon Jae-in gave U.S. President Donald Trump...
First lady attends exhibit on ‘new women’ with female entrepreneurs
First lady Kim Jung-sook visits the 'Arrival of New Women' exhibit along with a group of female entrepreneurs at the Deoksugung branch of the...
IOC calls NK participation in PyeongChang ‘a great step in Olympic spirit’
The International Olympic Committee issued a statement that welcomes the participation of North Korea in the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,...
President Moon hopes Korea, UAE can develop ‘true brotherhood’
President Moon Jae-in (right) meets Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak Abu Dhabi, chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi, at Cheong Wa Dae...
2018 will change the lives of the people: President Moon
President Moon Jae-in is faced with many questions from journalists during his New Year's press conference, at the Yeongbingwan Guest House at Cheong Wa...
lympic torch relay enters Gyeonggi-do
Torch bearer Lee Sun-nam, the Korean citizen who volunteered for the most hours in 2016, anywhere in the country, poses in front of Yeonmudae...
President Moon watches film about 1987 pro-democracy movement
President Moon Jae-in (left) and first lady Kim Jung-sook (center) cry as they watch '1987: When the Day Comes,' based on the torture and...
President Moon apologizes for flawed wartime sex slavery deal
President Moon Jae-in (right) welcomes Park Ok-Sun (seated), one of the victims of sexual slavery enforced by Imperial Japanese authorities during colonial times and...
Korea to become shipbuilding leader again: president
President Moon Jae-in sounds the klaxon onboard the icebreaker liquefied natural gas tanker 'Vladimir Rusanov' while visiting Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering's Okpo Shipyard...