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    National  >  Foreign Affairs  >  
    US says 3 South Korean firms to pay $236 million for bid rigging
    Three South Korean companies have agreed to pay a total of US$236 million for their involvement in a bid-rigging scheme in supplying fuel to U.S. military bases in the country, the U.S. government announced Wednesday. South Korean petroleum and refinery companies - including SK Energy Co. Ltd., GS Caltex Corporation and Hanjin Transportation Co. Ltd. - are accused of involvem...
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-15 09:49
    Moon holds summit with Brunei's sultan
    President Moon Jae-in held a summit with Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in Singapore on Wednesday and discussed ways to bolster bilateral relations between Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), officials said.
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-14 15:57
    Korea, UAE to hold high-level talks on nuclear energy cooperation this week
    South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will hold the inaugural session of their high-level dialogue on nuclear energy cooperation in Seoul later this week, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Vice Foreign Minister Lee Tae-ho and Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei, the UAE minister of energy and industry, are set to lead the session at a Seoul hotel on Friday.
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-14 11:30
    Moon to leave for Singapore to take part in ASEAN summits
    President Moon Jae-in was to leave for Singapore Tuesday for annual summits with Southeast Asian nations and their dialogue partners as he strives to bolster relations with the region and drum up international support for his initiative for peace with North Korea.
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-13 09:36
    Japanese man detained for stealing bullets from firing range
    A Japanese man has been detained for allegedly stealing bullets from an indoor shooting range in Seoul, police said Thursday.
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-08 14:27
    Asian nations vow to support peace in Korea
    Former and current leaders of Asian nations pledged their support for a process to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula and expressed hopes for greater economic cooperation at The KOR-ASIA Forum held in Seoul, Wednesday. Punsalmaa Ochirbat, former president of Mongolia, said at the forum held at Seoul Dragon City Hotel: “We Mongolians are grateful for the successful completion...
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-07 17:21
    • 'Peace of Korean Peninsula will lead prosperity of Asia'
    • 'Unpredictable US diplomacy makes NK denuclearization not feasible'
    • ASEAN, India key to Korea's New Southern Policy
    • 'Countries need to work in sync to guard peace'
    • VIPs at KOR-ASIA Forum 2018
    'Unpredictable US diplomacy makes NK denuclearization not feasible'
    The denuclearization of North Korea is unlikely to be realized in the near future because of the “low trust” in U.S. diplomacy that changes from “one day to another” according to a Russian security expert, Wednesday. Speaking at the KOR-ASIA Forum 2018 co-hosted by The Korea Times and its sister paper the Hankook Ilbo in Seoul, Timofei Bordachev, program director of the Mosco...
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-07 16:58
    • Asian nations vow to support peace in Korea
    VIPs at KOR-ASIA Forum 2018
    Korea Times and Hankook Ilbo Chairman Seung Myung-ho, sixth from left, and Korea Times President and Publisher Lee Byeong-eon, fourth from left, pose with international VIPs during a tea meeting before the KOR-ASIA Forum 2018 at the Seoul Dragon City Hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Wednesday. From left are Uzbekistan Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies Director Vlad...
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-07 16:57
    • Asian nations vow to support peace in Korea
    Ruling hurts Seoul-Tokyo ties: Japan's Kono
    Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has complained again over a South Korean court ruling that ordered a Japanese firm to compensate South Koreans who were forced to work for the company during the 1910-1945 Japanese occupation, urging the South to “take care of this issue” first, a U.S. media reported Tuesday. According to Bloomberg, Kono said the South Korean Supreme Court's decision posed a “serious challenge” to South Korea-Japan relations.
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-06 17:00
    UAE crown prince's close aide visits Seoul
    Presidential chief of staff Im Jong-seok met a close aide of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Seoul, according to Cheong Wa Dae, Friday. It said Im had lunch with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi and discussed a wide range of bilateral issues. They specifically went over the cro...
    Foreign Affairs | 2018-11-02 17:01
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