Cultural network

Culture, Sports & Tourism Minister Kim Jong-deok, left; Japan’s Education, Culture and Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura, center; and Chinese Vice Culture Minister Yang Zhijin join hands after signing the “Yokohama Declaration,” Sunday, in Yokohama, Japan. An outcome of the Sixth Korea-China-Japan meeting of cultural ministers, the document contains avenues of cultural cooperation among the three countries. Korea and Japan mark the 50th anniversary of normalizations of relations next year. / Yonhap