South Korea sacked Uli Stielike as their men's football head coach Thursday in the wake of their World Cup qualifying loss to Qatar.The Korea Football Association (KFA) said it decided to part ways with Stielike following a technical committee meeting at the National Football Center in Paju, nor

South Korea will host the 2018 World Firefighters Games (WFG), a major international sporting event for firefighters, in the central city of Chungju in September next year, government officials said Wednesday.The Sept. 10-18 games, also known as the "mini-Olympics for firefighters," are expected t

An impressive, large charity ball was held at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul on May 18, 2017 organized by the Association of the Spouses of the Ambassadors in Seoul (ASAS). It was to help the needy people in Korea.Many guests attended the benefit dance meeting, including ambassadors and Korean civic figur

This may come across as counterintuitive to some, but with all the attention and hype K-pop is getting from abroad, the idea that music fans in South Korea are sometimes left out in the cold by the industry is not entirely a far-fetched notion.KCON, which started in 2012, has established itself as a

Most Koreans (some 90% according a recent poll) say, “Now we have a President who knows what the people really want and what a President should really do.” The peoplenot agreeing with them seem to bea negligible minority, including some dishonest jaebeol chairmen who had unduly enjoyed enormous bene

Ambassador Adel Mohammad Adaileh of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Seoul said, “For Jordanians, May 25th is a day for affirming our sense of commitment to our country and its independence, and we remember with deep gratitude for our country, our great leaders - Their Majesties King Abdullah I, K

Ambassador Raul Silvero of the Republic of Paraguay in Seoul said, “I would like to mention that the President of the Republic of Paraguay Horacio Cartes offered on behalf of the Government and the people of Paraguay the sincerest congratulations and wishes of the greatest success to President Moon

S-Oil, a global leading oil refinery and petrochemical company, donated on April 20 KRW100 million (approximately $88,500) to Heart to Heart Orchestra, a symphony orchestra consisted of youths with developmental disabilities, in an effort to encourage their rehabilitation and improve public percepti

Millennium Seoul Hilton is offering a special room package for Seoul urbanites to take advantage of the much anticipated Seoullo 7017, which will be open to the public on May 20th. The ambitious project reclaims large elevated roads and remodels them into pedestrian-friendly walkways abound with lus

Ambassador Ms. Nozuko Gloria Bam of the Republic of South Africa in Seoul said, “South Africa and South Korea could collaborate and tap into investment opportunities offered by South Africa in the areas such as advanced manufacturing, infrastructure, natural gas, services, minerals and agricultural

Charge d’affaires (CDA) Mrs. Joanna Wasiewska of the Republic of Poland said, “Polish-Korean strategic partnership is built on a strong economic partnership and last year our countries recorded trade a turnover of more than 3 billion 5 hundred million dollars and the Polish export grew by 16% reachi

The following are excerpts from a recent interview with Ambassador Yusuf Sharifzoda of Tajikistan in Seoul.—Ed.Question: What is the status of relationship between Korea and Tajikistan?Answer: Historically, ancestors of Tajik people and Koreans have interacted through “Silk Road” trade startin

Ambassador Mohamed Abdelaal of the Republic of Sudan said, “There are great opportunities for investment in different sectors in my country such as agriculture, mining, oil, animal resources and infrastructure, and we have also millions of acres of fertile lands for the production of different cash

“With the mission of promoting greater exchanges between Mexico and Korea and safeguarding the interests of Mexico and the Mexican community, Ambassador Bruno Figueroa assumed office as the Mexican Ambassador-designate to the Republic of Korea,” announced the Embassy of Mexico on April 17, 2017. Det

By Kim Sung-minStaff reporter“The fourth of April, for Senegalese citizens, is a moment of remembrance and commemoration. On this solemn day, it is a duty to remember all our compatriots, famous or anonymous who fought, sometimes at the cost of their lives, for the independence of Senegal. I also pa

“The socio-economic cooperation between the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Republic of Korea is steadily expanding and developing, and now Korean investments in Laos rank number four with the bilateral trade increasing year by year as well as the development in the field of people-to-peopl

Leaders of the Old Boys’ Club of The Korea Herald media attended a luncheon hosted by Publisher-CEO Kwon Chung-won of the Herald Corp. at the Herald Building in Huam-dong, Seoul on April 12, 2017.The Herald Corp. publishes The Korea Herald in English and Herald Business in the Korean language. Led b

Has it ever occurred to anyone in Korea (and around the world, for that matter) that Mayor Heo Seong-gon of the Gimhae City of Gyeongsangnam-do Province (near Busan) is a descent of the Queen of King Suro of the Gaya Kingdom over 2,000 years ago? This was learned during a tour of the ambassadors and

A friendly table-tennis tournament among the diplomats was held at the Embassy of the Turkmenistan in Seoul on April 8, 2017 on the initiatives of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Seoul. It was in the light of the announcement the year 2017 as the Year of Health and Inspiration in Turkmenistan as well

“You leave Seoul by riding a hyperloop super high-speed train and you hit Busan in a little over a quarter of an hour!” This was what was introduced by Dr. Tai-sik Lee, president of the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering & Technology (KICT), at an Italian-Korean Science Club meeting in Seoul on Ma