A South Korean medical team flew into in Laos on Sunday to assist with recovery efforts following the deadly flooding that resulted from the collapse of a dam that was under construction by a Korean builder.An emergency relief team composed of 15 medical personnel and five support staff arrived at P
President Moon Jae-in on Saturday eulogized the father of a student activist whose death sparked nationwide pro-democracy protests in the 1980s that led to a direct presidential election.Moon said Park Jung-ki, who died earlier in the day at age 89, had been with people who needed solidarity after h
A U.S. Air Force aircraft transported the remains of dozens of service members killed in the Korean War to South Korea from North Korea on Friday, a move expected to help reinvigorate a peace-building process.U.S. officials received the remains at an airport in the communist nation's eastern por
South Korea will reduce the number of general-grade officers by about 17 percent over the next four years, in line with the overall troop drawdown scheme, as part of a new defense reform initiative aimed at creating a slimmer yet stronger military.The initiative also calls for launching the Ground O
A funeral service for late lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan was held Friday at the National Assembly with thousands in attendance, including legislators, family members and supporters, bidding their farewell to the iconic progressive politician.Parliamentary Speaker Moon Hee-sang hosted the service for the law
Governor Lee Mae-myung of the Gyeonggi Province is walking on a tight rope to the Office of the Governor. Since (and even before), Governor Lee was elected, there had been a number of scandals (portrayed here by bombs). The first bomb is (scandal of illicit love [or an illegal extramarital affair],
The Korean people have a time-honored wise-saying, “A cork-chasing dog helplessly looks in the sky.” As the expression suggests, a dog tries to catch a cock, but it flies away when the dog comes here. This traditional Korean proverb in this cartoon was obviously used in reference to a recent
North Korea continues to produce fissile material as part of its nuclear weapons program even as it makes progress toward denuclearization, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.Pompeo was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. President Donald Trump's recent sum
By Publisher Lee Kyung-sikThe conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has at last found a new leader, Kim Byung-joon, a professor-emeritus at Kookmin University in Seoul, as the chairman of the party's Innovative Emergency Committee.Kim is a unique person for a conservative political party b
Hundreds have gone missing after a dam collapsed in southeast Laos on Monday, affecting 1,300 households and displacing around 6,600 people, the Laotian news agency KPL reported Tuesday.According to the report, one of the auxiliary dams collapsed around 8 p.m. Monday at the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropo
Recently, one of the close former associates of the progressive-oriented late former President Roh Moo-hyun was chosen to lead the faction-ridden, popularity-plummeting conservative political camp in Korea, namely the Liberty Korea Party (LKP).The late former President Roh, whom President Moon Jae-i
The military will launch a joint team with the prosecution to investigate a set of alleged misdeeds by a defense intelligence unit, officials said Monday, with the probe set to target civilians, such as military and government retirees.The team will look into the allegations that the Defense Securit
South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Monday rejected concerns about Seoul's alleged move to ease international sanctions on Pyongyang, saying it is seeking an "exception" to facilitate cross-border exchanges.Kang made the remarks upon arrival from her visit to the United States
Documents submitted by the defense ministry show the earlier reported proposal from the defense intelligence agency to declare martial law may have been more deliberate than earlier believed, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Friday, apparently implying the military may have actually sought
President Moon Jae-in on Friday pledged to guarantee the independence of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and help the agency stay free from politics."I certainly promise that the government will never use the NIS for political purposes," Moon said after receiving a report from the spy agen
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Friday she seeks to ensure North Korea delivers on its promise to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.Kang was in New York to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and member states of the U.N. Security Council over the latest developments
A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former President Park Geun-hye to eight years in prison for illegally taking off-book funds from the state spy agency and interfering in elections during her term in office.Televised live, the Seoul Central District Court meted out the guilty verdict to the 66-year-
The Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Sung Chang-ho) ruled today (July 20, 2018) that former President Park Geun-hye was not guilty of charges brought against her for alleged involvement in unauthorized use of the Special Operations Fund provided to her by the Central Intelligence Agency
The political area in Korea has for some time been ‘without an opposition political leader.’ More accurately, the conservative political camp in Korea is literally ‘dead’ as the conservatives have lost their face following the detention of the publicly discredited former President Madam Park Geun-hy
A bipartisan group of leading South Korean lawmakers met with members of the U.S. Congress Wednesday to discuss cooperation on North Korea and trade.The five-member delegation, led by Rep. Hong Young-pyo, floor leader of the ruling Democratic Party, arrived in Washington earlier in the day to push S