The Korea Herald

Danish children’s book exhibition not kid stuff

Apr 21, 2013

Koreans and expatriates here can set off on a narrative adventure with the Danish tradition of storytelling in illustrated children’s books at five locations around the country this spring and summer.The moving exhibition explores some 70 years of illustrated children’s books at five locations in Seoul, Gangwon Province and Busan until July 28.The exhibition looks at children’s storytelling from the 1940s when the character, Pippi Longstocking, was conjured up by Astrid Lindgren to entertain her
Gardening strengthens French-Korean links

Apr 21, 2013

The mayor of the French city of Nantes said on Wednesday that cooperation on gardening and urban sustainable development with sister city Suncheon in South Jeolla Province marks the start of even closer links in the future.“We must to build closer links, and naturally this is an area around which our two cities can cooperate,” said Mayor Patrick Rimbert during a reception at the French Embassy in Korea on Wednesday.Rimbert arrived in Seoul on April 14 to take part in the opening ceremony of the
New president could mean closer ties between Seoul and Caracas

Apr 21, 2013

On the eve of President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration in Caracas, the Venezuelan Embassy here celebrated with a toned-down reception Friday at the residence of the South American country’s Charge d’Affaires Yadira Hidalgo de Ortiz.The informal gathering was in deference to protocol; Hidalgo had left Korea to go to Caracas on April 9 and a Korean delegation led by National Assembly Vice Speaker Park Byeong-seug traveled there on Wednesday to attend the ceremony. Delegations from more than 60 cou
Kerry calls N.K. talks conditions unacceptable

Apr 19, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday dismissed a set of pre-conditions laid out by North Korea for talks as “unacceptable,” calling them an opening “gambit” from Pyongyang.The isolated North on Thursday responded for the first time to an offer from Kerry during his weekend visit to the Korean peninsula to return to the negotiating table in a bid to defuse heightened nuclear tensions.The demands by the North’s main military body included the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a permanent end t
U.S. agrees to support S. Korea's exports of nuclear power plants

Apr 19, 2013

The United States has agreed to actively support South Korea seeking to export its nuclear power plants, government sources here said Friday, though the countries have failed, at least for now, to renew their bilateral accord on civilian nuclear cooperation.The countries held three days of talks in the U.S. this week to revise their nuclear accord, known as the 123 agreement."There were three main areas of discussion in the negotiations, which were what to do with spent fuel rods, how to secure
Korea, U.S. extend talks on nuclear accord

Apr 18, 2013

South Korea and the United States decided to extend formal negotiations aimed at revising a bilateral civilian nuclear accord for an additional day, a Seoul official said Thursday, after two days of talks failed to narrow differences. The allies began a new round of talks on Tuesday in Washington to rewrite the 1974 agreement that bans Seoul from reprocessing spent fuel because it could yield plutonium that could be used to build atomic bombs. Seoul wants Washington to allow it to use a prolifer
Police find NIS intervened online in presidential election

Apr 18, 2013

Police concluded Thursday that two National Intelligence Service agents illegally intervened in the last presidential election by posting comments critical of the opposition party on the Internet closely before the poll.Police have looked into suspicions that a female employee tried to influence the Dec. 19, 2012 presidential election on behalf of the agency by writing more than 120 online posts about politically sensitive issues under multiple IDs months before the polls opened.After four month
[Photo News] French ambassador's courtesy call

Apr 17, 2013
Aussie expert to lead GGGI

Apr 16, 2013

Australia’s special advisor on green growth was appointed Tuesday as the new director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Seoul-based organization said. Howard Bamsey will replace Richard Samans, who will return to the World Economic Forum as managing director for global cooperation after spearheading the GGGI’s transformation into an international body last year. Bamsey, who took office immediately, is also an adjunct professor at Australian National University’s Climate Change In
China joins disaster talks in US-Philippine drills

Apr 15, 2013

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Two Chinese military officers have for the first time joined a closed-door discussion on disaster response which is part of major annual U.S.-Philippine military exercises that Beijing has protested in the past. Philippine Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad says the inclusion of military officers from the United States and China along with nine other countries in Monday's talks on responding to sea disasters shows that major powers sometimes seen as rivals can work togethe
ASEAN-Korea Center hosts ‘Plus Three’ meetup

Apr 14, 2013

In a bid to expand multilateral cooperation among Southeast Asia’s so-called “Plus Three” grouping of China, Japan and Korea, ASEAN-Korea Center’s secretary-general hosted his counterparts from the ASEAN centers of China and Japan on Friday.ASEAN-Korea Center Secretary-General Chung Hae-moon hosted counterparts Ma Ming-qiang of China and Yoshikuni Ohnishi of Japan at the ASEAN-Korea Center in downtown Seoul. They agreed to seven areas of cooperation, including linking their respective websites,
Kenyan Embassy awards stipends to worthy overseas students

Apr 14, 2013

The Kenyan Embassy and the Kenyan Community in Korea helped award four students stipends on April 6 in recognition of their academic excellence and overcoming personal and financial challenges while studying abroad here in Korea.Kenyan students Josephine Kamakia, Wesley Kirui, Alias Kirugi and Mirriam Karithi were awarded stipends of 250,000 won ($220) each during a reception that also doubled as an organizing meeting of the KCK at restaurant Silk Road in Itaewon in Seoul. Kenyan Ambassador Ngov
Israel recalls Holocaust on Remembrance Day

Apr 14, 2013

An entire nation stopped its daily routine for two minutes on Monday. Drivers stopped their cars on crowded highways and got out to stand quietly on the street as mourning sirens wailed throughout Israel, as they do every year, to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.Here in Seoul, too, far away from the Middle East, the Israeli Embassy and about 100 guests including some two dozen foreign envoys held a silence to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered during World War II by Nazi Germany,
New Indonesian envoy introduces self to diplomatic community

Apr 14, 2013

The Indonesian Embassy in Korea hosted the foreign diplomatic community, business executives with ties in the Southeast Asian country and local media on April 4 to more fully introduce its country and its top diplomatic representative here.The country went through rapid changes over the past decade, including sweeping democratic reforms and the settlement of a decades-old dispute in East Timor.“Although our transition to democracy in the 1990s and early 2000s was a bit chaotic, nevertheless we n
Korean, Turkish national libraries expand cooperation

Apr 14, 2013

The national libraries of Turkey and Korea expanded their cooperation with the opening of a new section of the National Library of Korea, “Window on Turkey.”Turkish Ambassador to Korea Naci Saribas inaugurated the new section with an opening ceremony at the National Library of Korea on Monday.The section consists of 1,168 items of books and non-book materials about Turkey. “Window on Turkey” consists of books in Turkish and English languages, including those of famous Turkish novelists such as N