This year's conference asks you all to do so under the theme “North Korean Studies Today, Talking about Korean Unification.” I deeply thank Minister of Unification Hong Yong-pyo and Chairperson of the Korean Association of North Korean Studies Cho Seong-Ryoul for the invitation to speak at this year

Ambassadors Natallia Zhylevich of Belarus, Kouassi Bile of Cote d’Ivoire, Jorge Roballo of Argentina and Mohamed Abdi Gello of Kenya with 20 other senior diplomats, including the charges d’affaires, visited Handong Global University in Pohang City on the Southeast Coast of Korea on Nov. 12, 2015 at

A large-scale traditional Korean religious rite and dance festival was held at the Ansan Art Center in the Ansan City of Gyeonggi Province, some 26 miles southwest of Seoul, on Oct. 23, 2015 with the attendance of Director Kim Bong-shik of the Ansan Art Center, Chairman Choi Soo-jin of GyeongsinYeon

The members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps who missed the 2015 Nakdong River World Peace Culture Festival in Chilgok near Daegu on Oct. 2015, really missed something, especially the military attaches. They forwent the rare opportunity to inspect the Chilgok Patriots & Peace Memorial which was dedicat

Chef de Cuisine Bernard Butz of the Millennium Seoul Hilton rewrote a time-honored traditional Korean saying that is said in praise of an extremely tasty food. The Star Chef won the unprecedentedly high comment for the food he cooked at the ‘International Food Show of the Star Chefs of the Super-Del

Mayor Im Chang-ho of the Hamyang County opened the 12th Hamyang Wild Ginseng Festival at the Sangrim Park in the ‘Thousand-year Old Woods’ of Hamyang on July 30, 2015 on the theme of ‘Experience the History, Culture and Mystery of Thousand Years with Wild Ginseng’ which will continue for a four-day

Mayor Lee Suk-woo of the Namyangju City on the eastern outskirts of Seoul hosted the 1st Slow Life Forum on Humanity as part of a series of academic meetings of the 12th Namyangju Slow Life Planet Festival at the aT Center in southeastern Seoul on July 29, 2015. ▲Mayor Lee Suk-woo of Namjangju City

Mayor Choi Moon-soon of the Hwacheon County of Gangwon Province hosted a celebration meeting of the 205th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Colombia at the Battle Monument of the Colombian Troops at Mahyeon-ni, Sangseo-myeon, Hwacheon County on July 18, 2015. It was also in memory of th

Ever heard of a man named Byeon Gang-soe? Byeon has an insatiable carnal desire and an unmatched male potency. Byeon appears in Pansori (famed traditional Korean narrative song) where he is portrayed to have lived with Ongnyeo, a woman who had such a sex appeal that all the men who married her died

As it received the certificate of membership from the Korea Office of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) on June 23, the Dangjin City officially joined the ICLEI as one of its members. With members of over 1,000 local governments and autonomous alliance organizatio

As social interest in eco-friendly life is growing in this era of 100 year-long lifespan with good health, demand for high-quality and safe foods is increasing. Organic agricultural products, which are free from agricultural pesticides and chemicals, are especially popular among people. The world ma

The 2015 Gyeongju Silk Road Culture Expo Student Festival was opened at the Expo Culture Center at the Expo Park in Gyeongju City some 231 miles southeast of Seoul on May 30, 2015 attended by over sixty ambassadors and other senior diplomats from 36 countries plus international media representatives

The Gyeongsangbuk-do Province and the Gyeongju City are hosting the International Student Festival of the 2nd Gyeongju Silk Road Culture Expo on May 29-31, 2015 in a three-day run with the participation of 1,000 international students in Korea from 40 different countries of the world. The festival t

Ambassador Krzysztof Ignacy Majka of Poland and six other ambassadors visited Yeongam, Jeollanam-do Province on April 9-10, 2015 at the invitation of Mayor Jeon Dong-pyung of the Yeongam County, most of them accompanied by their spouses, and attended the 2015 Wangin Culture Festival, one of the impo

The Ansan City, some 26 miles southwest of Seoul, hosts the 2015 Ansan International Street Arts Festival (AISAF) at the Ansan Culture Plaza on May 1-3, 2015 in a three-day run on the theme of ‘City in Action!’ which is also a slogan for the event. A total of 61 works will be presented during the Fe

Students of Azerbaijan, the United States and scores of other countries in Korea captivated tens of thousands of people in Dangjin City and other Koreans from all parts of the country and from abroad, including Japan, on April 12, 2015--with their colorful, eye-catching traditional costumes and chee

Mayor Jeon Dong-pyeong of the Yeongam County, near Gwangju, is hosting the 2015 Wangin Culture Festival in his country on April 9-10, 2015 in memory of the noted Korean scholar, Dr. Wangin, who spread Hanja, Chinese characters and classics, to Japan in the third century. Dr. Wangin, or Wangin Baksa,

As the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games come closer to 3 years ahead, the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games is moving fast to take a variety of actions for preparation of the Olympic Winter Games along with 3 major venues, Pyeongchang, Gangneung and

The Damyang County of Jeollanam-do Province, Korea’s No. 1 ecotourism region, has been honored with the 7th Grand Tourism Award from the Korea Tour Club in recognition of its successful development of Hallyu Culture tourism products and winning the right to host the Southern Food Culture Grand Festi

Twenty-five ambassadors, senior diplomats and spouses attended the Gwangju Chungjang-no ‘70s-‘80s Recollection Festival and inspected the ‘mammoth’ Gwangju Asian Culture Complex (ACC) in the Geumnam-no Street of the Gwangju Metropolitan City on Oct. 8, 2014. Geumnam-no Street is the symbol of the Gw