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Fire victims remembered by Honduras

Feb 19, 2012

A book of condolences will be opened at the Honduran Embassy for people to pay respects to the hundreds of people killed in a prison fire in the country. The blaze at the overcrowded Comayagua Priso...
‘Odissi’ of Indian dance in Korea

Feb 19, 2012

Indian dancer Kavita Dwibedi performs in Korea. (Indian Embassy) Indian classical dance performances have wowed Korean audiences in Seoul and Busan. Award-winning performer Kavita Dwibedi executed ...
Sponsors sought for St. Paddy’s Day

Feb 19, 2012

The Irish Association in Korea is seeking sponsors for its annual St. Patrick’s Day event. The association hopes to celebrate Ireland’s national day with an event in Seoul on March 17. But the group...
PEN Korea forum to focus on North Korean writers

Feb 19, 2012

International authors will discuss setting up a group for North Korean writers in exile at a meeting in Gyeongju this year. Vice president of the Czech PEN Club Marketa Hejkalova said that issues of...
U.S. envoy talks about FTA, security ahead of 100th day

Feb 19, 2012

The U.S. ambassador to Korea has stated that the trade pact between the two countries is “vitally important” to both economies amid calls from the Korean opposition party to repeal it. The Democrati...
Targeting diplomats to help make a multicultural Korea

Feb 19, 2012

The president of an organization for foreigners’ welfare has called on diplomats and other foreigners here to speak up on their bugbears about Korea. Shin Kwang-yul organizes diplomatic conferences ...
Outgoing S. Korean ambassador meets with Secretary Clinton

Feb 18, 2012

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- Outgoing South Korean Ambassador to Washington Han Duck-soo paid a visit to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as he prepared to end a three-year stint ...
U.S. envoy talks FTA, security ahead of 100th day

Feb 17, 2012

The U.S. ambassador to Korea has stated that the trade pact between the two countries is “vitally important” to both economies amid calls from the Korean opposition party to repeal it. The Democrati...
Tokyo to block plan for Takeshima monument

Feb 16, 2012

The Japanese government is likely to turn down a Japanese right-wing group’s plan to erect a “Takeshima Monument” in front of the Korean Embassy in Japan, which claims the disputed islets in the East...
Korean ambassador to U.S. offers to resign

Feb 16, 2012

Han Duk-soo, South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S., has offered to resign on the third anniversary of his term, the government said Thursday. Han, who took office on Feb. 16, 2009, expressed his inte...
S. Korea completes building hospital, training centers at Afghan base

Feb 15, 2012

South Korea has completed building a hospital and two training centers for police and job-seekers inside its base in northern Afghanistan, as part of efforts to help rebuild the war-torn nation, an o...
EU backs Arab-UN peacekeeping mission in Syria

Feb 13, 2012

BRUSSELS (AFP) -- The European Union backed on Monday an Arab League call for a UN peacekeeping mission in Syria and urged the UN Security Council to act in order to stop the violence there. "We wel...
Taliban announce death of ex-defense minister

Feb 13, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ The Taliban's former defense minister died in a Pakistani jail in 2010, a spokesman for the insurgent group said Monday. Little had been heard of Obaidullah Akhund since he...
Foreign Ministry criticized for belated Egypt travel alert

Feb 13, 2012

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is facing public criticism over its decision to belatedly raise the travel alert for the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt after three Koreans were abducted and later...
Obama ‘negligent’ in embracing S. Korea’s opposition

Feb 13, 2012

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― President Barack Obama should step up efforts to reach out to South Korea’s opposition forces, especially amid the possibility of a power shift there in the year of parliam...