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Tensions in East Asia not to be eased by just one nation
Feb 5, 2014
The Obama administration's top Asia hand on Tuesday asked for South Korea, Japan and China to make joint efforts to resolve soared tensions among them over territorial claims and the interpretation of shared history."There is an unfortunate spike in tensions in the region. It's a matter of concern to all of us," Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said at a press conference hosted by the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C.South Korea accuses J
‘East Sea’ bill passes Virginia legislative panel, headed to floor
Feb 4, 2014
Seoul officials, U.S. media say approval likely
S. Korea, U.S. in close contact over Obama's Asia trip plan
Feb 4, 2014
South Korea and the United State are in close communication over U.S. President Barack Obama's potential trip to Seoul during his planned visit to Asia in April, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday."(Seoul) is closely communicating with the U.S. side," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said in a briefing in response to a question over the April visit.Government sources have earlier said Obama may travel to Seoul and Beijing in April to hold bilateral summits during his planned visit to
Virginia bill on 'East Sea' in home stretch
Feb 4, 2014
Use of the name East Sea in textbooks won approval Monday from a Virginia legislative committee, leaving just two steps before a longtime dream of the local Korean-American community comes true.The House of Delegates education panel passed it in a 18-3 vote. The House floor is expected to vote Thursday on the bill, which requires new school textbooks to name the body of water between Korea and Japan the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.Chances are high that it will pass the floor, given the
Vice foreign minister tapped as head of NSC secretariat
Feb 3, 2014
Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun on Monday was appointed head of the secretariat of Cheong Wa Dae’s National Security Council, the presidential office said. The 61-year-old career diplomat will also assume the vice ministerial position of vice chief of the National Security Office headed by Kim Jang-soo. “Kim not only excels in leadership, external negotiations and crisis management, but also is equipped with a strategic mindset with regard to national security,” Ju Chul-ki, senior presidenti
‘Korea ties symbolic for Hungary’
Feb 2, 2014
Opening of formal ties between Budapest and Seoul on Feb. 1, 1989 was seen as an act of betrayal by Pyongyang
‘Morsi’s ouster necessary to secure Jan. 25 Revolution’
Feb 2, 2014
Egypt’s top diplomat in South Korea said the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi last year on June 30 was necessary for the future of Egyptian democracy, as the envoy marked the 3rd anniversary of the Jan. 25th Revolution in 2011 at Hankook University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on Jan. 23. Egyptian Ambassador to South Korea Hany Selim said the revolution that took place in 2011 was part of a wider push for democracy and human dignity across the Arab world, and that the Egyptian military’s over
Local staff act as the faces of foreign embassies in Korea
Feb 2, 2014
Rew Ji-sun, a long-time local staff member at the South African Embassy here, helped others set up for the monthly club meeting as her elementary school aged daughter drew in her coloring book.The Embassy Staff Club has been meeting monthly like this for most of its 24-year history with members often bringing their kids to meetings.Local staff like Rew comprise a crucial contingent in every one of the more than 110 foreign diplomatic missions here in South Korea.The reason is simple: The Korean
Germany awards ex-P.M. Kim for promoting ties
Feb 2, 2014
Kim Hwang-sik, who was prime minister during the Lee Myung-bak administration and recently touted as a possible candidate in the coming Seoul mayoral race, was awarded a prestigious medal by German Ambassador to South Korea Rolf Mafael on Jan. 23 for Kim’s part in promoting bilateral ties.Mafael awarded Kim the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany during a private reception at the ambassador’s residence in the Seongbuk-dong neighborhood of Seoul. Seni
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Feb 2, 2014
South Korea, India expand cooperation on education
Feb 2, 2014
Indian and South Korean universities signed MOUs to boost student and educational exchanges in early January.Professor Nah Yoon-jong, executive director of the International Ccoperation Division at Tongmyong University, signed MOUs with the leaders at two Indian universities ― Indian Institute of Technology and Amity University in Guwahati and Dehli, respectively. He also signed a letter of engagement with Banaras Hindu University.The series of cooperation agreements between the centers of highe
New Chinese ambassador to Seoul to take office in mid-February
Feb 2, 2014
China's new ambassador to South Korea will likely take office in mid-February, according to the Chinese Embassy here on Sunday.China had requested Seoul's approval for the appointment of Qiu Guohong, the director general of the Department of External Security Affairs at the Chinese foreign ministry, in early January.Qiu would replace former Ambassador Zhang Xinsen, who finished his four year stint as China's envoy to Seoul and returned home last month."After finishing the bilateral process betwe
S. Korea denounces Japanese leader over Dokdo comments
Jan 31, 2014
South Korea lashed out Friday at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his remarks that Tokyo is considering bringing their territorial dispute over Dokdo to the International Court of Justice.Japan has long laid claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, stoking deep resentment among South Koreans against Japan, which colonized the Korean Peninsula in 1910-45.Seoul's Foreign Ministry condemned Abe's comment made a day earlier, calling it nothing but "empty rhetoric and a meaningless
Virginia's House panel passes bill on East Sea name
Jan 31, 2014
A legislative panel at the Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday passed a bill requiring new school textbooks to use the Korean name East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.The 5-4 vote in the education subcommittee kept alive the Korean-American community's hopes that Virginia will become the first U.S. state to introduce legislation to identify the waters between Korea and Japan as the East Sea.The state's Senate approved a similar bill last week.Koreans contend the Sea of Japan, still more pop
Kerry expected to visit Korea, China in Feb.
Jan 27, 2014
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will likely visit South Korea and China next month, diplomatic sources here said Sunday.The State Department is in consultations with the governments of the two countries for the secretary’s trips for the purpose of discussing North Korea, history and territorial tensions in Northeast Asia, and other pending issues, they added.“Secretary Kerry is considering trips to China and South Korea in February. He is expected to visit the two countr
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