By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporter Ms. Sua KimAccording to statics compiled by different sects of Buddhist organizations in Korea and submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Korea in 2011, the total number of believers in Buddhism in Korea totaled 39,581,983 persons. The figure sou

The following article was contributed to The Korea Post media for publication by a leading Paraguayan journalist, Mr. Benjamin Fernandez Bogado, who visited Seoul and attended the Seoul Journalists Conference 2018 in Seoul on March 5, 2018.—Ed.Paraguay has a large tradition of attracting peopl

By Ms. Sua Kim, staff reporterSome 60 members of the Old Boys Club (OBC) of The Korea Herald and its sister Korean-language business daily Herald Kyungje had their summer reunion meeting in the form of tracking and walking up to the top of the Cheonggye-san Mountain in the wooded southern outskirts

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporters Kim Jung-mi, Kim SuaAmbassador Piotr Ostaszewski of Poland said, “Today Poland is a symbol of fast developing economy, modernization and innovation and, needless to say, it is a result of our membership in NATO and the European Union.”Speaking at a large rec

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporters Kim Jung-mi, Sua KimUkraine is eager to further increase bilateral cooperation with Korea, especially in the economic field. And President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine has already extended his invitation to President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea to vi

A special event was organized by the Ambassadors’ Spouses Association in Seoul (ASAS) and the Australia New Zeland Association (ANZA) in order to honor the designs of Dr. Key-Sook Geum and to meet the flag bearer girls as they volunteered at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics last winter. The idea came

By Industry Editor Kim Tae-moon, Reporter Won HwiAmbassador Marco Della Seta of Italy in Seoul said, “The Italian Minister for Education, University and Research has recently established the Italian Research Day in the world, scheduled for April 15 of each year, on the anniversary of the birth of Le

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporters Sua Kim and Won HwiAmbassador Abida Islam of Bangladesh in Seoul said, “Bangladesh is currently the 32nd largest economy in the world and is poised to be the 23rd largest economy by 2050.”Speaking at a reception hosted by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Seoul a

Ambassador Petar Andonov of Bulgaria in Seoul said: “Third of March is our National Day and I am glad that you are here tonight to help us to mark it. On March 3rd 1878, or exactly 140 years ago, the Bulgarian statehood was restored after almost 500 years of Ottoman Empire rule and Bulgaria reappear

Ambassador Difie Agyarko Kusi of Ghana in Seoul said that her country is pursuing program creating a favorable business environment through creating attractive environment for foreign investment, re-opening markets for Ghanaian goods and services, and linking Ghanaian businesses with foreign counter

Brigadier General Héctor Francisco Morán González, Defense, Military and Air Attaché of Mexico in Seoul, became a ‘Best-loved Foreign Defense Attache in Korea’ on Feb. 21, 2018 for a wonderful speech passage delivered at the Republic of Korea Army Club in Yongsang Distric

Ambassador Grecia Fiordalicia Pichardo of the Dominican Republic in Seoul disclosed that Prime Minister Lee Nak-Yeon is scheduled to visit the Dominican Republic in mid-March leading a large delegation of Korean business leaders of Korea.Speaking at a reception she hosted at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul

Youthful fashion designer, Jungdo Kim (the only son of Fashion Maestro Andre Kim) said that he will carry on the spirit of service of his father for the clientele but that he will also try to diversify the range of his fashion business beyond of range of high fashions pursued his father. In 1966, Le

Vietnam’s football teams could achieve more success at the regional and international arena, said the Vietnam U23 national team coach Park Hang-seo in an exchange programme with hundreds of Vietnamese students in South Korea on February 11 ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year, the most important tra

Vietnam’s football teams could achieve more success at the regional and international arena, said the Vietnam U23 national team coach Park Hang-seo in an exchange programme with hundreds of Vietnamese students in South Korea on February 11 ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year, the most important tra

While the joint Korean women's hockey team was taking a beating against Switzerland at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Saturday, their male brethren was taking note.The unified team fell 8-0 to Switzerland, and head coach Sarah Murray and her players blamed the huge loss on nerves. After all,

South Korea ranked ninth Friday in the figure skating team event of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics after short programs of the men's singles and pairs.Teenage figure skater Cha Jun-hwan performed a clean program to finish sixth out of 10 skaters with a season best of 77.70 points in the me

Ambassador Manisha Gunasekera of Sri Lanka said, “We welcome the steady progress made in collaboration between Korea and Sri Lanka under the Western Region Megapolis Plan in the context of the MOU signed with Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and we also welcome Korean investme

More than a dozen players will be on the outside looking in whenever the joint Korean women's hockey team plays at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. And given the way head coach Sarah Murray has been running her practices, the starting lineup appears to be all but set.There are 23 South Koreans a

The Embassy of India celebrated the 69th Republic Day with fervor by hosting a reception at the Floating Island Convention, Sevit Island, Seoul on Jan. 26, 2018. More than 400 guests including senior dignitaries from the government, members of the National Assembly, provincial leadership, senior exe