Ambassador Rodolfo Solano Quiros of Costa Rica in Seoul hosted an informal, friendly dinner for his close friends (ambassadors, diplomats and Korean friends) at the Oak Room Restaurant of the Millennium Seoul Hilton in Seoul on June 28, 2019. It was a very cozy, friendly dinner cum a

Pocheon Mayor Park Youn-kook explained that during the past year, Pocheon, a city in northern Gyeonggi Province, has achieved “great achievements” in multiple aspects. He drew attention to the planned extension of Seoul Subway Line 7 to Pocheon and the plan to construct a pumped storage hydroelectri

With a number of high mountains covered by dense pine forest, the most clean air and clear waters, Cheongsong County is recognized as a premium clean region.Commercializing such clean air, splendid natural landscape and tourism attractions, the County government is concentrating efforts on attractin

A day or two before the New Year’s Day some years ago, Korea’s leading daily, Dong-A Ilbo, carried a story and pictures on Hilton Tailor in the ‘International Town,’ of Itaewon in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. There the writer called Chairman Lee Duk-roh of Hilton Tailor Myeongjang which, in English, is tantam

A major umbrella labor group said Monday it will stage a general strike next month to protest what it calls the liberal Moon Jae-in government's suppression of the labor sector.The announcement by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) followed the arrest of its chairman Kim Myeong-hwan

For the past 34 years of its existence, The Korea Post has been organizing tours for the ambassadors and their spouses, sometimes other senior diplomats also.These tours for the diplomats have many advantages for both the Korean hosts and also for the diplomats attending them. The Korean hosts are m

Millennium Seoul Hilton’s flagship all day dining and buffet restaurant will host a New Zealand Food Festival from June 27th through July 7th. During the festival, fresh and healthy New Zealand ingredients will be highlighted in the dishes offered at the buffet.During the festival, guest chef Mark H

Cheonan City has been picked as the first preferred bidder for a new national football training center. Cheonan Mayor Koo Bon-young announced on May 16 that the city was chosen as the best candidate in the race to host the new National Football Center (NFC).The Korea Football Association (KFA) also

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Mahayana Buddhism.According to Wikipedia and various Korean reference materials, early Korean monks believed that the traditions they received from foreign countries were intern

HWPL World Peace Summit has been held annually since 2014, providing a platform for leaders in politics, religion, youth and women’s groups, journalism, and civil society around the world to discuss the ideas and practices required to achieve peace, a common goal of the global community. Last year’s

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho grabbed the highest honor at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his black comedy movie "Parasite."Bong became the first South Korean director to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Before him, Park Chan-wook was awarded the Grand Prix, the second-highest

A South Korean violinist and a North Korean soprano shared a stage in China on Sunday, in an effort to promote reconciliation as tensions threaten to rise again on the peninsula.Won Hyung-joon, chief artistic director of Seoul-based Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra, and soprano Kim Song-mi performed to

By Vice Chairperson Cho Kyung-hee with Reporter Hwang Jung-ha Mayor Chung Dong-Kyun of the Yangpyeong County of the Gyeonggi Province appointed President Kim Hyung-dae of The Korea Post media as the “King of Yangpyeong of the Day” at the Mountain Green Festival on May 3, 2019 in Yangp

The Korea Post has recently appointed Kevin Kim as new Managing Editor of The Korea Post media, publisher of 3 English and 2 Korean-language media outlets established 34 years ago.The Korea Post was inaugurated as a first-generation English monthly magazine in Korea in 1985 when English-language pub

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with VC Cho Kyung-hee, Reporters Kim Jung-mi, Kim Sua, Shin Jin-seon, Kevin Kim At last weekend on April 4-5, 2019, the ambassadors and madams of about a dozen countries in Korea had a rare opportunity to take a look into what happened between Korea and Japan 1,600 years a

Prof. Lee Keun-yeop, Ph.D.New Year's Day this year meant to me an adio to my octogenarian days. In celebration my wife, Nguyen Thi Viet Hong offered a "full scholarship" Vietnam tour. Our entrouge consisted of my 10th grader daughter Lee Pizza, my wife, and of me. Before boardin

Rev. Park Seung-uk, chairman and chief abbot of the Cheonman-sa Buddhist Temple in Ulsan, visited Seoul and had a meeting with Ambassador Shiferaw Shigutie Wolassa of Ethiopia at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on March 11, 2019. The meeting was also attended by the other senior members of the

By marking March 8 as World Women's Day, the international community wanted to highlight the role of women in societies and the need to overcome prejudices that can delay the evolution of women's status towards greater equality in society, political, social, economic and cultural responsibil

After an extended period of reticence, which perhaps resulted from the central government’s ambitious ‘Help North Korea’ policies, it appears the local governments have re-started paying due attention to the importance of local festivals they enthusiastically hosted in the past. There are clear sign

Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (SCJ), hosted a mass rally at the Gwanghwamun Square in front of the Government Building in Seoul on Jan. 27, 2019. The organizers claimed that a total of 30,000 persons participated in the meeting. At the mee