South Korean President Moon Jae-in has named Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon as his special envoy to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Friday.Park will head to the Philippines, the current rotating chair of the ASEAN, as soon as arrangements for
President Moon Jae-in on Friday reaffirmed his campaign pledge to complete a constitutional revision by June next year, an opposition leader said, amid continuing calls to address the current concentration of power in a single state leader, a situation long blamed for corruption and political polari
South Korea's acting justice minister offered to resign Friday, one day after the ministry and state prosecutors launched internal corruption investigations into their own officials, who are suspected of intentional negligence to afford leniency toward a former presidential secretary."I did my
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that he hopes to get the ties with South Korea back on normal track, emphasizing the importance of the bilateral relations between the Asian neighbors.Xi made the remarks during his meeting with Lee Hae-chan, who was in Beijing as a special envoy that South K
Nearly 90 percent of adult South Korean citizens have a positive outlook on President Moon Jae-in's handling of state affairs, a survey showed Friday, reflecting high public support for the new liberal leader.In the survey conducted from Tuesday through Thursday by local pollster Gallup
The United States wants North Korea to trust its promise of no hostility and conduct no more nuclear or missile tests before Washington can consider opening talks with the communist nation, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was quoted as saying Thursday. The remarks, made in a meeting with So
The Korean daily media headlines and humorFriday May 19, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKorea Post Me
A senior Chinese official said Friday that relations between China and South Korea are "very important," underlining the need for the Asian neighbors to keep communicating with each other on issues of mutual concern.Chinese State Councilor for Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi made the remarks in a meet
A special envoy of South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a series of meetings with U.S. congressional leaders on Thursday as he forged ahead with his mission to reaffirm and further strengthen the alliance between the two countries under the new government in Seoul.Special envoy Hong Seok-hyun arr
A special envoy of South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in China on Thursday for discussions on a summit between the countries' heads of state and ways to contain North Korea.Also high on the agenda for the special envoy, Lee Hae-chan, was a prolonged row between Seoul and Beijing over the
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that South Korea is the "most important" country that shares strategic interests, adding he will move toward building future-oriented ties between the Asian neighbors.Abe made the remarks during a meeting with Moon Hee-sang, a special envoy of South
The Korean daily media headlines and humorThursday May 18, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKorea Post
President Moon Jae-in on Thursday hinted at reinvestigating the military's bloody crackdown of a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju in 1980.The new liberal leader attended an annual ceremony marking the citizens' armed resistence against then coup leaders in the city, located 350 kilometers s
A special envoy of South Korean President Moon Jae-in embarked on his trip to China on Thursday for discussions on a summit between the countries' heads of state and ways to contain North Korea.Also high on the agenda for the special envoy, Lee Hae-chan, was a prolonged row between Seoul and Bei
Local egg prices were rising again with the country yet to stabilize the market following the latest outbreak of bird flu, officials said Thursday.The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. said a carton of 30 eggs was priced at an average of 8,027 won (US$7.17) as of Wednesday, up 61.3 percent fro
U.S. President Donald Trump told a special envoy of South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he looks forward to working closely with Moon to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue and is willing to make peace through engagement with Pyongyang if conditions are right, the envoy said.Trump, however, s
The labor ministry said it ordered Samsung Heavy Industries Co. to partially suspend operations after a fire broke out at its shipyard in the southeastern port city of Geoje on Wednesday.The blaze, which began from a cooling installation at 10:07 a.m. was extinguished around 10:30 a.m., according to
President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday tapped a well-known critic of large conglomerates as the new chief of the corporate watchdog Fair Trade Commission (FTC).Kim Sang-jo, a economics professor from Seoul's Hansung University, has been nominated as the new head of the FTC, according to the presiden
Middle-aged South Koreans who live with or support their parents financially feel the heaviest burden when bearing their medical bills, but some saw it as a duty that has to be fulfilled even if means getting loans or giving up on their own savings, a survey said Wednesday.In the poll of 1,000 peopl