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SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in celebrated the construction Friday of a new silicon wafer plant in South Korea by a Taiwanese fir...
14:13 Nov. 22
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in celebrated the construction Friday of a new silicon wafer plant in South Korea by a Taiwanese firm's local unit, calling it a milestone in his count...
11:51 Nov. 22
BUSAN, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- Fashion industry experts and executives from South Korea and 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off a joint fashion festival in...
11:47 Nov. 22
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution reaffirming the importance of an expiring military information-sharing pact between South Korea and Japan, a news repo...
11:32 Nov. 22
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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- The termination of a major arrangement between South Korea and Japan on exchanging military informa...
10:19 Nov. 22
By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- The termination of a major arrangement between South Korea and Japan on exchanging military information was imminent Friday amid no news of a breakthrough...
09:15 Nov. 22
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SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States held telephone talks lat...
07:58 Nov. 22
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States held telephone talks late Thursday and discussed a soon-to-expire military information sharing pact between Seoul a...
02:14 Nov. 22
MOSCOW, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- The United States' approach of trying to denuclearize North Korea "all at once" is what has kept the negotiations locked in the current impasse, Russia's top diplomat sa...
22:53 Nov. 21
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- The office of President Moon Jae-in expressed regret Thursday that North Korea rejected an invitation for leader Kim Jong-un to visit South Korea for the upcoming summit ...
19:16 Nov. 21
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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea apparently left the door open Thursday for a dramatic eleventh-hour deal with Japan on a bilateral military informa...
18:25 Nov. 21
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- Expressing an opinion in a country should come within the boundaries of its local laws and regulations, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday, regarding a recent clash b...
18:07 Nov. 21
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea participated in a U.S.-led naval exercise along with Australia and Canada in waters off the coast of Guam, the U.S. Navy has said.
Japan, which took part i...
17:59 Nov. 21
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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top security officials had discussions Thursday on Seoul-Tokyo relations with the termination of a bilateral milita...
17:46 Nov. 21
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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top security officials had discussions Thursday on Seoul-To...
17:23 Nov. 21
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean man was killed after being attacked by an armed robber in southeastern Turkey early this week, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.
The victim in hi...
17:18 Nov. 21
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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top security officials had discussions Thursday on Seoul-Tokyo relations with the t...
16:50 Nov. 21
PARIS, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- The Korean Cultural Center in Paris has reopened at the heart of the French capital as South Korea's foothold for its "hallyu" diplomacy on the European continent.
The...
15:35 Nov. 21
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- Environment ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet this weekend for discussions on strengthening tripartite cooperation to fight regional fine dust pollution...
15:30 Nov. 21
By Yi Wonju
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman introduced a resolution highlighting the importance of an expiring military information-sharing pact betw...
14:19 Nov. 21