SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have been in talks on the potential lifting of Japan's yearslong restrictions on exports of key industry materials to South Korea as they have worke...
14:56 Mar. 06
(ATTN: ADDS ruling party's response)
By Kim Na-young
SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung lambasted the government's decision to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced l...
14:41 Mar. 06
(ATTN: ADDS Biden's statement in paras 3-5)
TOKYO, March 6 (Yonhap) -- Japan's top diplomat on Monday welcomed South Korea's plan to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced labor through a Seo...
14:08 Mar. 06
TOKYO, March 6 (Yonhap) -- Japan's top diplomat on Monday welcomed South Korea's plan to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced labor through a Seoul-backed public foundation, describing it a...
14:01 Mar. 06
By Lee Haye-ah
SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's decision to compensate Korean forced labor victims without the involvement of Japanese firms is widely regarded as a demonstration of Preside...
13:33 Mar. 06
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SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government formally propo...
12:58 Mar. 06
By Kim Na-young
SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung lambasted the government's decision to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced labor without the involvement of Japan...
12:53 Mar. 06
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SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government formally proposed Monday compensating more than a dozen victims of Japan's wartime forced...
11:44 Mar. 06
SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government will make public its offer Monday of how to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced labor, revolving around a fund raised through donatio...
10:11 Mar. 06
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SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a "future youth fund" to sponsor scholarships for students, as part of a de...
15:58 Mar. 05
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SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a "future youth fund" to sponsor scholarships for students, as part of a deal on settling the...
15:34 Mar. 05
SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- Gender Equality Minister Kim Hyun-sook will attend a United Nations session on promoting gender equality and women's rights in New York this week, her office said Sunday....
13:46 Mar. 05
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SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a "future youth fund" to sponsor scholarships...
11:47 Mar. 05
SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han said Sunday he plans to finalize the timing and level of President Yoon Suk Yeol's upcoming visit to Washington when he meets with ...
11:04 Mar. 05
SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a "future youth fund" to sponsor scholarships for students, as part of a deal on settling the issue of compensatio...
10:27 Mar. 05
March 4
1866 -- Bishop Simeon Francois Berneux, who arrived in Korea in 1851 to become its fourth bishop, is executed as part of a larger persecution of Western missionaries and their converts ...
14:00 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential office and Japan's prime minister's office have established an additional channel to negotiate a settlement to the issue of compensation for Ko...
13:24 Mar. 03