The Korean government, businesses and civic groups are joining forces to provide relief assistance to the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan. The government on Tuesday unveiled plans to provide $5 million of assistance and dispatch a team of 20 medical professionals, 14 rescue workers, four officials from the state aid agency and two diplomats. They are expected to arrive there as early as Thursday.Seoul City said Wednesday it would offer $200,000 to the archipelago country through

Park Tong-jin, a former foreign minister, died of natural causes Monday at the age of 91, his family said.The longest-serving South Korean foreign minister between 1975 and 1980 under the Park Chung-hee administration, Park Tong-jin also worked as a unification minister, an ambassador to the United States and a two-term lawmaker.He dealt with Seoul’s relations with Washington during the turbulent period of the late 1970s. Then-President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by his intelligence chief a

Angolan ambassador says the two nations can do better, as Angolans celebrate 38 years of independence

The Laotian Embassy in South Korea with the help of a local nonprofit organization organized a cultural exchange program here that saw 33 Laotian youth performers travel around Korea for five days from Nov. 1. For some of them, it was the first time they had been outside their rural village of Dan Xang.Facilitated by the Laotian Embassy and the Korea Laos Friendship Association and with financial support from the Sharing Culture and Arts Association, 33 performers of the Laotian Dan Xang Village

Latin American envoys here joined with top-level representatives from more than a dozen countries to meet their South Korean counterparts during the Sixth High-Level Forum on Korea-Latin America Partnership in Seoul on Tuesday.This year’s high-level forum saw vice-minister and minister level representatives discuss ways to enhance economic cooperation between the two sides in a range of areas, including trade, investment, resources, infrastructure, the environment and development. It has been he

Asia Society’s Korea Center celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding with a coterie of international and South Korean VIPs, including a healthy contingent from the foreign diplomatic community here, at gala dinner in Seoul on Thursday. With the attendance of about a dozen foreign diplomats, the fete featured a number of lauded personalities outside government in the United States and Asia, including rookie hurler for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ryu Hyun-jin. The left-hander, who spent years