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The Straits Times
April 29, 2018
SEOUL (AFP) - At Seoul's Nampo Myeonok noodle bar, the owner was rushed off her feet, shouting at a long queue of hungry punters that she was clean out of "Pyongyang naengmyeon". "You'll have to wait around 40 minutes" for the broth to boil, she told the line snaking out of her door on Saturday (AprilÃâà...
The GroundTruth Project
April 29, 2018
People of all nationalities flooded the street once more, making an exhausting hegira toward their own polestar of Muslim life — not anywhere near Medina, Saudi Arabia, but here in Seoul, Korea. “Allah created man and woman, tribes and nations. Why? For understanding each other,” Lee said beforeÃâà...
Kotaku
April 28, 2018
Last night's showdown between slumping juggernaut Seoul Dynasty and season-long punchers-above-their-weight Philadelphia Fusion might have been the first match of its kind in this first Overwatch League season. On their best nights, both of these teams can be extraordinarily good. Seoul slowly butÃâà...
ABC News
April 27, 2018
Seoul says Kim Jong Un told Moon he "won't interrupt your early morning sleep anymore," referring to missile tests. By The Associated Press. GOYANG, South Korea — Apr 26, 2018, 11:46 PM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. Seoul says Kim Jong Un told Moon he "won't interrupt your early morning sleepÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 27, 2018
Seoul says Kim spoke of deadly 2010 North Korean attack of South Korean island, saying summit can heal residents' scars. Originally published ... GOYANG, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says Kim spoke of deadly 2010 North Korean attack of South Korean island, saying summit can heal residents' scars.
Seattle Times
April 27, 2018
Share story. By. The Associated Press. The Associated Press. GOYANG, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says Moon suggests more summits, Kim Jong Un offers to visit South Korean presidential mansion. The Associated PressÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 26, 2018
By Kim Hyun-bin. Plastic bags have become a rising crisis in South Korea, taking over one third of the capital Seoul's recyclable waste. The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to strengthen crackdowns on stores that hand out free plastic bags after purchase. Any stores that have a floor size larger thanÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 12, 2018
SEOUL: South Korea's national security adviser has flown to Washington to meet his newly appointed US counterpart John Bolton, an official said Thursday in Seoul, where concerns are growing over the American's hardline stance on the nuclear-armed North. Chung Eui-yong, who personally deliveredÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
April 12, 2018
Kono touched upon a plan by South Korean parliamentarians to visit the disputed Takeshima islets, which Seoul calls Dokdo. He protested the move and demanded that it be stopped. However, according to South Korean officials, Kang only raised a counterargument, highlighting the territorial dispute overÃâà...
The Business Times
April 12, 2018
[SEOUL] South Korea's Kospi stock index was muted on Thursday while the won weakened against the dollar in the local platform and bond yields fell. The Bank of Korea held its benchmark interest rate steady on worries over soft inflation amid trade tensions between the United States and China. The bank's decision hadÃâà...
The Business Times
April 12, 2018
[SEOUL] South Korea's Kospi stock index edged higher on Thursday. The Korean won held steady, while bond yields were unchanged. The Bank of Korea kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged at 1.5 per cent as expected, largely shrugged off by market players. At 01.04GMT, the Kospi was up 6.55Ãâà...
Yonhap News
April 12, 2018
SEOUL, April 12 (Yonhap) -- Nearly 80 percent of foreign visitors to Seoul like to go shopping the most and about 60 percent wish to enjoy Korean dishes, a survey showed Thursday. According to the survey commissioned by the Seoul metropolitan government, 85.2 percent of the respondents expressed aÃâà...
Yonhap News
April 12, 2018
SEOUL, April 12 (Yonhap) -- Hundreds of Buddhist nuns from around the world held a meeting in Seoul Thursday and prayed for the peace on the Korean Peninsula. Some 400 members of the World Buddhism Bhikkuni Association from 12 countries participated in the association's inaugural generalÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 11, 2018
SEOUL – Foreign Minister Taro Kono asked South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday to raise the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s to be put on the agenda at an upcoming inter-Korea summit. “We agreed that Japan and South Korea will continueÃâà...
Xinhua
March 19, 2018
SEOUL, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Combined forces of South Korea and the United States will launch their joint military exercise from April 1, Seoul's defense ministry said Tuesday. The springtime war games, codenamed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, will be carried out in a similar scale with last year as agreedÃâà...
Korea Times
March 19, 2018
South Korea should strengthen its diplomacy to local actors outside Washington to cut a win-win deal from Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) renegotiations and steel tariff talks, U.S. trade experts said Sunday. They said direct negotiations with Washington are important but recommendedÃâà...
Vogue.com
March 19, 2018
The neighborhood of Hannam-dong in Seoul contains an unusually quiet residential pocket, steps from a concrete overpass. Deliverymen zip past four-story apartments on electric bikes through streets narrow and winding. It is an unlikely fashion spot, yet those in the know are drawn here by The Room,Ãâà...
Korea Exposé
March 19, 2018
On Jun. 13, South Korea is holding nationwide local elections. For the first time since its foundation in 2012, Green Party Korea candidates will appear on ballot papers across the country. The Green Party is a massive underdog in an electoral system that favors the two largest parties, the left-leaningÃâà...
Eater NY
March 19, 2018
Butter and kimchi get equal billing at Boerum Hill's new French Korean bistro Brasserie Seoul, reopen today with a new chef and menu. The Holiday Inn restaurant, at 300 Schermerhorn St. near Nevins Street, now has Sung Park as executive chef, who is combining his Korean heritage and French trainingÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 18, 2018
Well-traveled Korean entrepreneurs, not to mention a thriving pastry scene in Seoul, are enticing some of San Francisco's best pastry chefs to expand to Asia. South Korea, as the Winter Olympics demonstrated once again, has become an economic and cultural powerhouse, and Seoul is a megacity with 25Ãâà...
Yonhap News
March 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Yonhap) -- The White House said Friday it continues to have conversations about naming an ambassador to South Korea "soon," a post that has been vacant for more than a year. The most likely candidate, Victor Cha, was withdrawn from consideration earlier this year afterÃâà...
Twitchy
March 17, 2018
According to Noh, during her three-day visit to Washington from Thursday, Kang will also meet with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, who is serving as the acting secretary following the dismissal of Rex Tillerson, to discuss pending issues between Seoul and Washington, including the NorthÃâà...
OpenGov Asia
March 17, 2018
It was announced today that Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, has won the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018. The Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize has been awarded by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore and the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) since 2010. It is a biennialÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 17, 2018
SEOUL • South Korea will seek high-level talks with North Korea this month as preparations for a summit began yesterday, the presidential chief of staff said, while officials in the South expressed interest in a separate summit with the United States. This came as a report yesterday by intelligence analysts atÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 17, 2018
Prosecutors in South Korea carried out a raid of three crypto exchanges in the country last month, confiscating computer hard drives, mobile phones, and financial records after a January investigation showed that some of the customers' crypto holdings had been moved to the bank accounts belonging toÃâà...
The Business Times
March 16, 2018
[SEOUL] South Korea's KOSPI stock index ended in positive territory on Thursday as institutional investors turned to net buyers towards end-session, erasing earlier losses. The South Korean won was weaker against the dollar on the local platform while bond yields also fell. At 0630 GMT, the KOSPI wasÃâà...
Yonhap News
March 12, 2018
SEOUL, March 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to need more time and to remain prudent in reporting its planned summits with South Korea and the United States, as there has been no official media coverage by the North, a Seoul official said Monday. North Korea has not shown any official responseÃâà...
Yonhap News
March 12, 2018
SEOUL, March 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened higher Monday on strong gains from tech and Internet shares. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 17.64 points, or 0.72 percent, to 2,477.09 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Tech shares were bullish as marketÃâà...
RT
March 12, 2018
Seoul demands Turkish TV publicly apologize for depicting S. Korean president as murder suspect. Published time: 11 Mar, 2018 13:55 ... Seoul has lashed out at a Turkish TV channel after it mistakenly depicted the South Korean president as an alleged murder suspect. Despite the report being taken down, South KoreanÃâà...
Business Insider
March 12, 2018
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's silence on its upcoming summits with the United States and South Korea is likely due to caution over organizing its stance regarding the meetings, South Korea's Ministry of Unification said on Monday. "We have not seen nor received an official response from the NorthÃâà...
CNN
March 9, 2018
... as "historic" and thanked both leaders for seeking a diplomatic solution to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. "This is an almost miraculous event; my administration will prepare toward the May meeting with utmost diligence," he said in remarks read out in Seoul by a Blue House spokesman.
Nikkei Asian Review
March 9, 2018
TOKYO/SEOUL/MANILA -- China on Friday condemned U.S. tariffs on imported aluminum and steel, while Japanese and South Korean officials expressed concerns and vowed to try to persuade the Trump administration to exempt the two countries as allies. Reactions came after U.S. President DonaldÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 9, 2018
As for Ko, the 84-year-old has stepped down from posts at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Dankook University, his poems are to be scrubbed from schoolbooks, a library in his honour will be closed and Seoul has shut an exhibition dedicated to his work. Korean actor OhÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 8, 2018
SEOUL • Seoul's top national security officials yesterday headed to the United States, their first stop in President Moon Jae In's campaign to rally international support in engaging North Korea. National Security Office chief Chung Eui Yong and National Intelligence Service Director Suh Hoon were boundÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 6, 2018
South Korean delegation head, National Security Director Chung Eui-yong, right, speaks to the media at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. The delegation led by Chung returned to the South Tuesday after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held an 'openheartedÃâà...
Janesville Gazette
March 6, 2018
In this Monday, March 5, 2018 photo, provided by the North Korean government on March 6, South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong, center, talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the eventÃâà...
The Japan News
March 6, 2018
ReutersSEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks. Ko Un, who denied any “habitual misconduct” in aÃâà...
The Hankyoreh
March 6, 2018
All roads within Seoul's four major gates are to be narrowed to between four to six total lanes, starting with Sejong Road, Eulji Road, and Toegye Road this year. But the city of Seoul has left other policy measures to drastically improve transportation and the environment within the gates as mid- to long-termÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 6, 2018
The South Korean government is nervously trying to limit the adverse effects of the decision, while GM is seeking financial support from Seoul, apparently to take advantage of its wish for the carmaker to continue operations in the country. Faced with the iconic American company's move, South KoreansÃâà...
Uniontown Herald Standard
March 6, 2018
A man walks near the wire fence decorated with ribbons carrying messages wishing the reunification and peace of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 5, 2018. South Korea's president will send a delegation led by his national security director to North Korea thisÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 6, 2018
March 5, 2018 Seoul, South Korea—Envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in planned to meet Monday with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the start of a rare two-day visit to Pyongyang that's expected to focus on how to ease a standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions and restart talksÃâà...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
Officials in Seoul say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a dinner late Monday to welcome top aides of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in the latest diplomatic effort that some hope will pave the way for direct talks between the U.S. and North Korea. The 10-member South Korean delegationÃâà...
Today.com
March 2, 2018
The figure skaters, the snowboarders, the curlers... and the pizza dancers? It might sound cheesy, but learning the skills of "pizza dancing" was one of the highlights of my trip to South Korea for the Winter Olympics. On a break from the true athletic action, I visited Seoul to check out this fitness trend that hasÃâà...
NextShark
March 2, 2018
A new variant for Nike's Air Jordan line is being released on March 10 — the Air Jordan III “Seoul” which is heavily inspired by South Korea's flag design. ... The Air Jordan III Seoul will commemorate the 30 year anniversary for when Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics, which took place in the country'sÃâà...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
Moon Jae-in has tried to parlay a rapprochement between the two Koreas during the Olympics into more substantive talks. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters. South Korea plans to send a special envoy to North Korea as President Moon Jae-in works to encourage direct talks between Washington andÃâà...
Highsnobiety
February 28, 2018
You can look forward to the Air Jordan 3 “Seoul” launching March 10 on nike.co.kr and at the Jordan Hongdae store. In other news, the Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG “Game Royal” is also set to arrive in March. Follow here for more. To stay updated on everything happening in the sneaker world, followÃâà...
The Independent
February 28, 2018
The plane flew close to South Korean territory for more than four hours without first giving notice, raising the risk of an “accidental conflict”, Seoul said. South Korean armed forces described the activity as “unusual” and said they scrambled 10 planes, including F-15k and KF-16 fighter jets, to monitor theÃâà...
Travel+Leisure
February 27, 2018
Having a nice drink at a cafe is a great way to spend the afternoon, but it's even better when the menu also includes a friendly animal companion like a dog, a cat, or even an owl, sheep, or snake. Some people like snakes. And now, yet another animal-themed cafe in Seoul called Blind Alley is offeringÃâà...
The Drive
December 31, 1999
I waited until deep in the night for my first stab at driving in Seoul. Tangling with the city's horrific rush hour traffic while also getting my bearings seemed like a bad ideal; I wanted empty streets, with plenty of runway to learn the rules of the road without embarrassing myself in front of tired residents hurriedlyÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
South Korea's president said Monday that the United States should lower the threshold for talks with North Korea and that the two countries should start a dialogue soon. President Moon Jae-in made the remarks in a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong one day after a senior North KoreanÃâà...
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