South Korean President Moon Jae-in left Wednesday for Vladivostok, Russia, where he will attend a regional forum and hold a series of bilateral summits with other leaders that will largely focus on how to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.Following his arrival in the Russian city, the S

President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump are completely on the same page on how to deal with North Korea, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Tuesday, after a Trump tweet spurred speculation the two leaders might be at odds with each other.In the tweet following North Korea's sixth nucl

Il Ponte, Millennium Seoul Hilton’s popular Italian trattoria, will host a special promotion featuring sublime white asparagus in a five-course dining feast. This promotion will take place during the month of September. The menu commences with the star: white asparagus contrasted with

The Cabinet approved a proposal Tuesday to designate Oct. 2 as a one-off holiday to bridge the weekend and long Chuseok holiday so as to make it possible for workers to take 10 consecutive days off.The designation would link the Sept. 30 weekend to the three-day Chuseok holiday, and then to the Oct.

The chief of South Korea's major public broadcaster MBC was questioned by the labor ministry early Tuesday over allegations that he violated labor laws and unfairly exerted influence over personnel affairs at the company based on political bias.Kim Jang-kyom, president and CEO of MBC, appeared a

South Korea's Navy said Tuesday it has conducted massive live-fire drills in the East Sea in a show of its resolve to retaliate against North Korea's provocations.Among assets mobilized were the 2,500-ton Gangwon frigate, a 1,000-ton patrol ship, 400-ton guided-missile vessels and 130-ton hi

The Korean daily media headlines and humorMonday, September 4, 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 P

Conservative parties on Sunday raised pressure on President Moon Jae-in to rethink his "dovish" approach toward North Korea following its sixth nuclear test, urging him to explore stronger options such as the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear arms.They demanded that the liberal president renou

North Korea said Sunday that it has successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded into its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in what could be the most powerful detonation.In an "important" announcement, North Korea said that it carried out the sixth nuclear test at 12

South Korea strongly condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test Sunday, vowing to push for fresh and the most powerful sanctions by the U.N. Security Council to completely isolate the communist state. "President Moon Jae-in said the country will never allow North Korea to continue adva

South Korea's top financial regulator said Sunday it will step up monitoring and carry out probes into money laundering, unauthorized financing and other illicit transactions of digital currencies.Joining Japan, China and other Asian nations in trying to regulate crypto-currencies, the Financial

South Korea's current account deficit in air transport reached a record high in the first six months of the year due mainly to a sharp drop in Chinese tourists stemming from the ongoing diplomatic spat over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, central bank data showed Sunday.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake was detected around North Korea's nuclear test site Sunday, South Korea's military said, in an indication of a possible nuclear test.An artificial quake wave was detected around the Punggye-ri site in the North Hamgyeong Province, according to the Joint Chiefs of S

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to step up pressure on North Korea and maintain a close coordination in telephone talks Sunday. "We completely agreed that we must thoroughly coordinate with each other and with South Korea, and cooperate closely with

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's biggest carmaker by sales, said Sunday it will launch its luxury G70 midsize sedan this month in a move to strengthen its independent Genesis lineup.The company expects the addition of the G70 to the Genesis brand will help it establish a stronger presence in the

North Korea said Saturday that any South Korean and United States attempt to locate its mobile missile launchers would be futile, issuing sarcastic remarks on a recent South Korean military drill to detect and destroy the North's transporter-erector-launcher (TEL).The South Korean Navy's spe

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he would meet with his advisers next week to weigh a possible withdrawal from the U.S. free trade agreement with South Korea.Trump made the remark to journalists during a trip to hurricane-hit Houston, Reuters said, shortly after the move was reported by the

North Korea set a goal early this year of increasing its oil reserves to 1 million tons in anticipation of additional international sanctions, a Japanese newspaper reported Saturday, citing a Pyongyang source.The Tokyo Shimbun said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached the decision to secure a 1 m

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) said Saturday that it will boycott the ongoing regular session of the National Assembly in opposition to what it claimed is a government attempt to control state-run media.The decision was made at an emergency meeting of party lawmakers.The former ruling

Nine out of 10 malaria infections in South Korea occur in border areas with North Korea, a member of a provincial government disease control body said Saturday.Officials at the government of Gyeonggi Province that surrounds Seoul said Saturday that a college professor belonging to the province's