The high-level inter-Korean talks at Panmunjom finally reached an agreement 55 minutes after mid-night on Aug. 25, 2015 after 54 hours’ ‘marathon meeting’ since the two sides started the talks at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 22. Based on this agreement, Chief Presidential Secretary Kim Kwan-jin published the d

North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a truly serious problem for the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the South and a headache also for the United States, China, Japan, Russia and other countries with interest in the Korean peninsula.Some experts on inter-Korean relations compare North Korea to a lion in the

Former Floor Leader Yoo Seung-min of the ruling Saenuri Party now is the frontrunner among all the Presidential hopefuls of the ruling camp even outstripping the hitherto front-running Chairman Kim Moo-sung of the Saenuri Party. ▲Former Floor Leader Yoo of Saenuri According to the result of a survey

Yoo Seung-min, who involuntarily resigned yesterday as the floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party under the pressure of the pro-Park faction of the party, jumped to the second place overnight in the popularity rating of the Presidential hopefuls of the ruling camp, next only to Saenuri Chairman Ki

There have been three new cases of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), two new deaths and 50 persons who have been cured of the disease and released from hospital. This was announced by the Central MERS Control Headquarters (CMCH) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) today.The MERS contr

The Central MERS Control Headquarters of the Ministry of Health & Welfare Central (CMCH of MHWH) disclosed today that as of 11 a.m. this morning (June 20) there has been no new outbreak of MERS in Korea for the first time since the the first confirmed case of MERS in the middle of last month. This w

A total of eight new MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) cases were confirmed last night and this brings the total number of confirmed MERS patients to 162 as of today. This has caused the number of quarantined people to jump to 6,508 persons and confirmed MERS cases to 162 persons. This was ann

The following details on the summit meeting between President Park Geun-hye and President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan on May 28, 2015 were disclosed by the Korea Culture & Information Service of the Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism today (May 29, 2015).--Ed ▲President Park Geun-hye (right) and

President Park Geun-hye will have a summit meeting with President Islam Karimov of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the Presidential Office of Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul this morning (May 28, 2015). President Karimov is in Seoul on an official state visit to Korea at the invitation of President Park.It is

▲ President Park Geun-hye (right) and President Rosen Plevneliev of warmly shake hands with each other after a joint press conference on May 14. President Park Geun-hye had a summit meeting with President Rosen Plevneliev of the Republic of Bulgaria at Cheong Wa Dae yesterday (May 14, 2015) and then

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that he is "embarrassed" by allegations by a late South Korean business tycoon that he became a target of a prosecution investigation because he is close to Ban. This was reported by Yonhap Korean news agency.Sung Wan-jong, a former head of Keangnam Ent

President Park Geun-hye left Korea yesterday on Air Force 1 in a tour of four Central and South American countries leading a business delegation of 126 business leaders and economic officials, largest so far.President Park will visit Colombia, Peru, Chile and Brazil on her first Presidential trip to

To have or not to have THAAD(Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense), that is the question in Korea today.On this question, opinions are split between different political groups as well as among experts, the media and people in general.The generation who personally experienced the Korean War (1950-3) a

President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic had a summit meeting at the Presidential Mansion of Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Feb. 26, 2015, and adopted a joint statement concerning the establishment of Strategic Partnership between the two countries. The Czech Repu

The National Assembly approved the appointment of Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo at its plenary session on Feb. 16, 2015 with an edge of only seven votes. ▲Prime Minister Lee Wan-kooOf the total 281 lawmakers participating, 148 voted in favor of his appointment, 128 against and five ineffective. The app

Rep. Moon Jae-in, a prominent progressive-oriented lawmaker, was elected new chairman of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) at the party national convention at the Olympic Gymnasium in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2015. It was a showdown between the leaders of the two rival factions

Newly elected Chairman Moon Jae-in of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD)indicated that he will steer the NPAD on the course of a party of the practical middle-of-the-roaderswith a slogan, “New Moon Jae-in Plan”to prepare the party to be fit to take over the control of gov

Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) declared on Feb. 8, 2015, “I will wage an all-out war on President Park Geun-hye if should continue to fail to respect the rule of democracy and hurt the economy of the common people.” Speaking at the National Convent

President Park Geun-hye designated ruling Saenuri Party Floor Leader Rep. Lee Wan-koo as new prime minister on Jan. 23, 2015, and announced a partial reshuffle of her aides at Cheong WaDae and some members of the Cabinet.▲Prime Minister-designate Rep. Lee Wan-koo(floor leader of the ruling Saenuri P

President Park Geun-hye said on the New Year’s Day in 2015 that in the New Year she will try to reinforce the foundation to rusher in the era of US$40,000 in per-capital GNI and help North Korea to join the international community with an eventual aim to achieve peaceful reunification of the Korean