South Korea and Mongolia will boost their cooperation in football after leaders from both sides agreed to mutual football development programs, the sport's national governing body said Friday.The Korea Football Association said that its chief Chung Mong-gyu had a meeting with Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Mongolian Football Federation head Ganbaatar Amgalanbaata at a Seoul hotel on Thursday night and discussed bilateral cooperation between the two countries in football."Personall

The leaders of Korea and Mongolia agreed Thursday to seek an increase in flights between the two nations and expand cooperation in the latter's infrastructure construction and overall economic development.President Park Geun-hye and her Mongolian counterpart, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, signed three memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on strengthening bilateral economic cooperation and another on cooperation in the sports sector.One of the MOUs concerns joint efforts to "actively" discuss ways to inc

South Korea's top diplomat and the new chief commander of U.S. troops in Korea on Wednesday reaffirmed their alliance in the face of persisting tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, Seoul's foreign ministry said.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and United States Forces Korea Commander Vincent Brooks held talks at the ministry as the new chief of the 28,000-strong U.S. forces paid a courtesy call upon taking command late last month.Yun congratulated Brooks on his new post and str

South Korea on Tuesday issued an additional travel warning for Laos as safety concerns grow following recent shooting attacks on cars. Under the warning, the lowest in a four-tier system, the Foreign Ministry alerted Korean nationals to stay vigilant when traveling in the Southeast Asian country along the border region between the northern province of Ruang Prabang and Vientiane.The decision was made amid increased safety worries after shooting attacks on moving vehicles were reported in the are

South Korea's parliamentary speaker Chung Ui-hwa called Tuesday for continuous dialogue between the legislative leaders of South Korea and Japan, stressing the need to expand bilateral exchanges in various areas, including culture, to forge a future-oriented relationship.During a meeting between the parliamentary leaders of the two neighbors, Chung also proposed strengthening exchanges among the two nations' parliamentary organs such as their secretariats, budgetary policy offices and libraries.

A multi-agency group has been dispatched to Mexico and Colombia at their request for the transfer of the South Korean government's know-how on e-government, the Ministry of the Interior here said Tuesday. The team, led by Vice Interior Minister Kim Sung-lyul, consists of officials from the interior ministry, the Ministry of Government Legislation, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the Anti-corruption & Civil Rights Commission and the Korean National Police Agency, the ministry said. Earlier,

Next month's joint military exercises between South Korea, the United States and Japan are representative of the three-way security cooperation the United States wants to have with the two allies, the Pentagon said Monday.The three countries plan to hold the anti-missile exercises in Hawaii next month to better counter North Korea's ever-growing nuclear and missile threats. The maneuvers will take place on the sidelines of the Rim of the Pacific exercise, U.S.-led biennial multinational naval wa

Jean-Vincent Place, a Korean adoptee-turned-French minister, was eager to be back in his motherland Monday, despite the painful memories of his years in an orphanage.He was especially glad to be back as the French minister for state reform and simplification, a theme that fits well with the South Korean government's own push to ease regulations and revive its economy.During his three-day stay in Seoul, the 48-year-old minister said he plans to meet with Interior Minister Hong Yun-sik and Seoul M

South Korea and Iran will sign a memorandum of understanding on environmental cooperation in Seoul later this week, the environment ministry here said Monday. To that end, Iranian Environment Minister Masoumeh Ebtakar will visit the country to sign the MOU at a Seoul hotel on Tuesday, the ministry said. Ebtakar, also the incumbent vice president of Iran, was named one of the seven Champions of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Program as a prominent environmental leader in 2006.The MOU

South Korea's western port city of Incheon and China's eastern port city of Weihai have been chosen as priority cooperative cities to establish the "South Korea-China Digital Silk Road" aimed at cementing cooperation in the information-communications field between the nations, an Incheon city official said Monday. The cities will sign a memorandum of understanding to that effect at the 14th South Korea-China economic ministerial meeting set for May 27 in Seoul, the official said. Named after the

Changes appear inevitable to South Korea's defense cost-sharing agreement and free trade pact with the U.S. under a Donald Trump presidency as the businessman-turned-presidential candidate is determined to review the deals from scratch and overhaul them, if necessary, to maximize American interests.Walid Phares, a top foreign policy adviser to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency and Yonhap News Television that Trump wants to "go back to g

A President Donald Trump will neither abandon South Korea nor let the Asian ally defend itself against threats from North Korea, a top foreign policy adviser to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said.Walid Phares, an international relations scholar who serves as Trump's foreign policy brain, made the remark in an interview with Yonhap News Agency and Yonhap News Television, stressing that Trump's remarks, such as his call for Seoul to shoulder all costs for U.S. troop presence, sho