The Daehan News and The Korea Post media co-host the 6th Annual Hanbok Festival in Seoul on the theme of “Faithfulness to the Nation, the Family and the World” at the Diamond Hall on the 22nd floor of the Seoul Plaza Hotel in front of the Seoul City Government building on Dec. 7, 2017.
When she takes the ice at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games next month, South Korean speed skater Lee Sang-hwa will be chasing a rare piece of Olympic history.Lee will try to become just the second speed skater to win three straight Olympic gold medals in the women's 500 meters. American star Bo
Pope Francis has sent a message of encouragement to the South Korean Catholic community and other activists worldwide fighting for the abolition of capital punishment, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea said Thursday.In the message, which was addressed to You Heung-sik, chief of the confe
(Yonhap) -- An annual ice fishing festival will open on the frozen surface of Soyang Lake in Inje late next month to reinvigorate the economy of this remote mountainous town near the border with North Korea, organizers said Thursday.The Inje Ice Fishing Festival will get under way in the town in Gan
The Daehan News and The Korea Post media co-host the 6th Annual Hanbok Festival in Seoul on the theme of “Faithfulness to the Nation, the Family and the World” at the Diamond Hall on the 22nd floor of the Seoul Plaza Hotel in front of the Seoul City Government building on Dec. 7, 2017.A total of ove
Ticket sales for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics have surpassed 60 percent, the event's organizers said Sunday. There are 47 days left until the Feb. 9 opening ceremony of the first Winter Games in South Korea. And as of Thursday, 655,000 tickets had been sold, or 61 percent of the organize
The torch relay for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will resume on Saturday, after Friday's leg was canceled following a deadly fire in its scheduled stop.PyeongChang's organizing committee earlier scrapped its torch relay in Jecheon, some 170 kilometers southeast of Seoul, for Friday,
Genji, Millennium Seoul Hilton’s Japanese restaurant, is pleased to announce a special promotion from now until the end of January featuring swellfish (also called fugu), a seasonal delicacy highly revered in Japanese cuisine. Delight in the finest flavors and most tender textures that can only be e
Publisher Kwon Chung-won of The Herald Media said that he is managing the company successfully yielding profits from various business operations of the Herald Corporation, including the environment-friendly organic products. Speaking at the reunion party of the ‘Old Boys’ Club of the
By Cho, Kwan Sun“There is one person in the Republic of Korea who is able to achieve real national reunification of the Korean peninsula.” A friend of mine recently told me so. It certainly was like a bolt from the blue for me.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continues to not only give the cold shoul
Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea turns a blind eye to all peace overtures made by the Republic of Korea, the United States and other members of the Free World. In response, Chairman Kim continues his development of nuclear weapons and their delivery means which now threaten even to hit the U.S. m
Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao arrived in South Korea Wednesday for his winter vacation and to meet fans here.Pacquiao, the only boxer in history to win world titles in eight different weight divisions, will spend eight days in South Korea with his family, officials here said. During his visi
A total of 35,230,000 million people visited their hometowns from Seoul and other major cities in Korea to their hometowns in the countryside to celebrate the Chuseok Full Moon Festival with their parents, relatives and old friends during the three-day Chuseok Holidays. This year employees of the go
Following are excerpts from an interview with Mayor Lee Byung-sun of Sokcho City recently conducted by The Korea Post media, publisher of 3 English, 2 Korean news media.—Ed. Question: What are Sokcho City’s unique urban environment and competitive edge that help the City grow in
South Korea will host Russia in the countries' final men's hockey tune-up game next February before the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.Scheduling the match was part of a cooperative agreement reached between the national hockey federations of the two countries in Moscow on Thursday.The Kor
South Korea on Thursday encouraged Russian athletes to compete in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics as neutral individuals, amid a ban on Russia competing over its state-sponsored doping.The International Olympic Committee's Executive Board announced in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week that i
Mrs. Pinar Okcal, spouse of the ambassador of Turkey in Seoul, hosted a luncheon at her residence in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul on June 9, 2017 for the leaders and members of the Seoul Garden Club.The meeting was attended by the spouses of the ambassadors and leaders of the Club, including Chairperson Mrs
The Daehan News and The Korea Post media co-host the 6th Annual Hanbok Festival on the theme of “Faithfulness to the Nation, the Family and the World” at the Diamond Hall on the 22nd floor of the Seoul Plaza Hotel in front of the Seoul City Government building on Dec. 7, 2017.This year, unlike in th
For the first time in 32 years of operation, The Korea Post had the great luck today (Nov. 14, 2017) of meeting with an ‘author ambassador’ in Seoul. He was Ambassador Milan Lajciak of the Slovak Republic in Seoul.Ambassador Lajciak has written a book entitled East and West: Manifestation of Ancient
The United Nations General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution calling for the peaceful running of the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea's PyeongChang.The resolution, also known as the "Olympic Truce," is adopted every two years ahead of the Summer and Winter Olympic games to declare