SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The state audit agency said Saturday it will launch a comprehensive inspection next week into the country’s hosting of the World Scout Jamboree last month after the event faced much criticism for poor preparations. The 12-day event, which kicked off Aug. 1, underwent significant challenges, including a heat wave [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Pyongyang supports Moscow’s “sacred fight” against the West as the two isolated leaders held a rare summit in Russia on Wednesday, amid concerns that they may advance an arms negotiation and bolster military cooperation. With the participation of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Five opposition lawmakers plan to visit the United States and Europe this week to garner global support against Japan’s ongoing discharge of water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) said Tuesday. Reps. Lee Soo-jin and Lee Yong-sun from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will send a disaster relief team and humanitarian aid worth US$2 million to Morocco, which is struggling with the effects of last week’s powerful earthquake, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Last Friday, the 6.8 magnitude quake struck the North African country, and the death toll had risen [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government will start the process to review the country’s unitary medial law system that covers the entire health professional, including doctors and nurses, in follow-up measures against a controversial nursing act that had rocked the local medical community, a vice health minister said Tuesday. The nursing [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Both facing growing isolation, North Korea and Russia are turning to one another for a mutually beneficial partnership, purportedly surrounding weapons, rivaling that of South Korea and the United States, which have advanced their security and economic ties. In an anticipatedsummit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will “soon” visit Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin, Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday, with a special train believed to be carrying him apparently heading for Russia. The North’s leader will soon visit Russia at the invitation of Putin, the Korean Central [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign ministry said Sunday it will closely cooperate with Morocco and the international community to provide necessary support for the North African country over a massive earthquake. Late Friday, the 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco and killed more than 2,000 people, according to foreign media reports. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Presidential Committee of National Cohesion (PCNC) has put forward a proposal for a “national survey” aimed at helping individuals who are socially isolated and reclusive to reintegrate into everyday life. In a briefing held at the Government Complex in Seoul on Wednesday, the PCNC unveiled a series of [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Family members of six former South Korean presidents have met at the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae in the first such gathering dubbed as a symbol of “historic reconciliation.” The meeting on Saturday came as Culture Minister Park Bo-gyoon invited the relatives of the former leaders to [...]