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NK workers to visit Seoul for goodwill football matches

A series of football matches between workers of South and North Korea will be held in Seoul on Saturday, three years since the last event was held in Pyongyang. It is the first civilian exchange between the South and North since the Panmunjeom Declaration was reached at the inter-Korean summit in April.

Politics | 2018-08-09 16:21

Seoul's new research center to delve deeply into Japan's wartime sexual slavery

South Korea will launch this week a research center to compile and commission research works on the history of the Imperial Japanese Army's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Thursday.

Politics | 2018-08-09 13:52

Google Korea adds 'East Sea' to Dokdo location

Google added the label of East Sea to the location indicating the nation's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Korean and English versions of the search engine, a nonprofit cyber diplomatic organization said, Wednesday. In other words, when a user types Dokdo, Liancourt Rocks or Takeshima in Japanese, the East Sea and the Sea of Japan now appear simultaneously in the search results.

Politics | 2018-08-08 17:17

Koreas inspect disease, pest damage of forests in North

South and North Korean officials inspected the extent of disease and pest damage on Mount Geumgang in the North, Wednesday. Twelve South Korean officials headed by a senior official of the Korea Forest Service visited the North for a one-day inspection and discussed pest control plans.

Politics | 2018-08-08 17:10

Assembly challenges ruling to disclose details of special activity funds

The National Assembly appealed a court decision last month to disclose details of the so-called special activity funds for lawmakers, which they could spend freely without having to provide receipts.

Politics | 2018-08-08 17:04

Joint probe begins into Surion crash

The Marine Corps formed a civilian-government-military joint investigation team Wednesday to find out the exact cause behind the fatal crash of a Surion helicopter last month. It took about three weeks to form the special probe team, as bereaved families of the accident victims failed to come to terms with the military's earlier plan to include only military experts in the in...

Politics | 2018-08-08 16:51

S. Korea to send envoy to Libya in efforts to free hostage

The government will send a special envoy to Libya this week as part of efforts to get a South Korean hostage there released. Baik Joo-hyeon, former ambassador to Kazakhstan who also served as the director-general of the Consular Affairs Bureau, will meet with local authorities to discuss the matter. Baik was involved in efforts to free South Korean fishermen that were abducte...

Politics | 2018-08-08 15:42

Police search Shinil Group for financial fraud

Police searched the office of Shinil Group Tuesday as part of an investigation into an allegation the company committed investment fraud by inventing a fictitious story that it discovered the wreck of a sunken Russian warship laden with treasure off Ulleung Island, east of the peninsula. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent out 27 investigators to confiscate evidence at eight related firms including Shinil Group's Yeouido office and Donskoi International Exchange in Gangseo-gu, both in southwestern Seoul.

Politics | 2018-08-07 17:39

Minor parties seek unity

Rep. Chung Dong-young, right, new leader of the minor liberal Party for Democracy and Peace, speaks with Rep. Kim Dong-cheol, chief of the minor conservative Bareunmirae Party’s emergency committee, at the National Assembly on Yeouido, Seoul, Tuesday.

Politics | 2018-08-07 17:20

Seoul to push planned aid package to NK

A senior government official said Tuesday the government will push ahead with the $8 million aid package for North Korea after the UN Security Council approved new United States-backed guidelines to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to “millions” of hungry and impoverished civilians in the secretive neighbor.

Politics | 2018-08-07 17:15

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