The Japanese government has authorized a second shipment of an industrial material under its export restrictions to South Korea, informed sources said Monday.According to industry and government sources here, Tokyo has recently approved a request from a local manufacturer to export photoresist to So

South Korea called in a Japanese diplomat Monday to demand Tokyo's explanation on its reported plan to discharge into the Pacific Ocean contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown.The move came amid Seoul's push to reverse Tokyo's recent export curbs through bilater

South Korea is still reviewing the timing and the scale of semiannual maritime defense drills to be held on and around its easternmost islets of Dokdo, the defense ministry said Monday.This year's drills have been pushed back amid an escalating trade row with Japan stemming from differences over

President Moon Jae-in called on North Korea and the United States on Monday to seize the current chance to achieve denuclearization and lasting peace, as Seoul and Washington are wrapping up their combined military drills.The allies kicked off the "command-post" exercise on Aug. 5. In response, No

The United States is committed to maintaining close relationships with both South Korea and Japan, the State Department said Friday amid reports that Washington's top diplomat expressed his support for Tokyo's view on the issue of wartime forced labor. Japanese media have repo

President Moon Jae-in made some nice words about Japan on the Liberation Day of Korea from Japan on Aug. 15, 2019. This was sheer surprise to many Koreans, if not all of them, because most had Koreans had anticipated some scathing criticisms against Japan as Prime Minister Shintaro Abe had continued

President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that South Korea will "gladly hold" Japan's hand if the neighboring nation chooses dialogue and cooperation in an escalating trade row stemming from differences over wartime forced labor.Moon made the remarks in his Liberation Day address commemorating the 1

Professor Kim Dae-jong of Business Administration at Sejong University in Seoul appeared on the MBC News Special Talk Program on Aug. 2, 2019.The debate on the day was "Excluded from ‘White Country List’ of Japan, what are our countermeasures?" The discussion took place with Jin Chang-su, a senior

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday the fundamentals of the Korean economy remain strong despite heightened economic uncertainty and called for vigilance against potential negative impacts by fake news on financial markets. The president ordered government officials to sternly tackle growing economic

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday the fundamentals of the Korean economy remain strong despite heightened economic uncertainty and called for vigilance against potential negative impacts by fake news on financial markets. The president ordered government officials to sternly tackle growing economic

North Korea showed off yet another newly developed missile last week, indicating that the regime has been focusing on the modernization of its conventional weapons system as nuclear negotiations with the United States have remained stalled, experts said Monday. On Saturday, North Korea fired two sho

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his will to restart negotiations on its nuclear program with the United States "as soon as" the joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington is over.The North Korean leader also pledged to stop missile

The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States were set to meet in Seoul on Friday to discuss regional security and other alliance issues, the defense ministry said, amid North Korea's saber-rattling against their joint exercise and frayed ties between Seoul and Tokyo. The talks between

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that talks to get South Korea to increase its contribution to the upkeep of U.S. forces in the country have begun. "South Korea is a very wealthy nation that now feels an obligation to contribute to the military defense provided by the United States of

Chairperson Tanzila Narbayeva of the Senate of Oliy Majlis (parliament) in Uzbekistan paid a first visit to the Republic of Korea on August 6, 2019, and met with President Ban Ki-moon of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) at the Lotte Hotel Seoul. Ban is also well known as the former Secretary

South Korea and the United States will stage joint military drills as scheduled despite warnings from North Korea, the South Korean military authority said Sunday. The joint drills will begin Monday with a computer-simulated command post exercise (CPX) to cope with any emergency on the Korean Penins

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon on Saturday blasted Japan for its decision to remove South Korea from a whitelist of trusted trading partners, saying that it "crossed a line it should not have.""(The decision) is the second retaliation after the country imposed export restrictions on key chip material

The United States "recommends" South Korea and Japan seek "creative solutions" to resolve a growing trade dispute between the two nations, a State Department official said Friday.Earlier Friday (Seoul time), Japan decided to remove South Korea from its "whitelist" of nations given preferential

A joint discussion on a roadmap of Preferential Trade Arrangement (PTA) was held between Pakistan and South Korea to beef up bilateral trade, investment and bilateral economic relations.Minister Abdul Razak Dawood of Pakistan for Commerce, Textile, Industry & Production and Investment visited Korea

A fishing boat apparently operated by North Korea's military has been towed into a South Korean port for investigation after "mistakenly" sailing across the inter-Korean sea border, the military authorities here said Sunday. Three North Koreans, one wearing the communist nation's military