Members of the Korea CQ Forum -- an intellectual and networking platform for opinion leaders -- organized by the Corea Image Communications Institute pose at a gathering at the Latvian Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 7.They listened to a lecture on fostering creativity in the age of automation by professor Lee Kwang-hyung at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s Department of Bio and Brain Engineering. In the photo are Latvian Ambassador to Korea Peteris Vaivars (tall person in the b

Polish Ambassador to Korea Piotr Ostaszewski (left) poses at restaurant Zelen in Itaewon in Seoul on Nov. 7 in celebration of the “Taste of Poland” food festival that runs through Nov. 30. Various soups (traditional sour soup with rye flour, borsch with sour cream), appetizers (vegetable salad with mayonnaise, cold jellied pork knuckles, meat dumplings, mushroom and sauerkraut dumplings), entrees (Bigos meat and cabbage stew, apple-stuffed duck, beef and mushroom stew, meat roulade with cucumber

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JAKARTA -- South Korea will not join an Indo-Pacific regime, at least for now, a ranking South Korean official said Thursday.The clear rejection came one day after US President Donald Trump noted the Korea-US alliance was helping ensure peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region in a joint statement summarizing his earlier summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul."President Trump highlighted that the United States-Republic of Korea Alliance, built upon mutual trust and shared

Amid South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s weeklong tour of Southeast Asian countries that started Wednesday, a seminal report prefiguring a bright future relationship between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Korea has been released. “A survey on mutual perceptions of ASEAN and Korean youths,” co-published by the ASEAN-Korea Center and Korea Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, is an inquiry into the minds of young generations who will form the bedrock of the two regions’ sustainab

JAKARTA -- The leaders of South Korea and Indonesia were set to hold their bilateral summit Thursday with their discussions expected to focus on ways to improve cooperation and joint efforts to denuclearize North Korea.The summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Indonesian President Joko Widodo was set to begin later in the day, marking the first of its kind.Moon arrived here Wednesday on a three-day state visit that marked his first-ever state visit to a foreign state since taking

South Korean President Moon Jae-in was set to leave for Indonesia Wednesday as part of his three-nation Southeast Asia tour for bilateral summits and regional forums.The South Korean leader was due in Jakarta later in the day for a three-day visit. It will mark his first-ever state visit to a foreign country since taking office in May, according to the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae.Moon and his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo are scheduled to hold a bilateral summit on Thursday to discuss

China is planning to send a high-level delegation to South Korea to explain the outcome of the ruling Communist Party's recent congress, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday.The move comes after the two countries announced last week that they had reached an agreement to improve bilateral ties frayed by the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea. (Yonhap)"China is preparing to dispatch a high-level delegation to explain the result of the party's 19th cong

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway began service on Oct. 30 with its first official run across Azerbaijan, Georgia and the east of Turkey, greatly facilitating regional trade as part of China’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, according to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Seoul. The 846-kilometer project -- part and parcel of the Trans-Asian Railway Network, also known as the “Iron Silk Road” -- is expected to halve the time it takes to move goods from China to Turkey. It is a crucial part of the OBOR initi

A coalition of pro-American organizations here moved to welcome US President Donald Trump on his two-day visit to Korea starting Tuesday. “Our alliance was forged in blood and laid the foundation for freedom and the peace and prosperity of ROK. We stood and fought together in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq,” the ROK-US Friendship Association United said in a press statement.“The people of the Republic of Korea will never forget the noble sacrifices of US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marin

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Moving beyond 50 years of existence, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is strengthening its relations with South Korea for a mutually profitable future, said the chair of the ASEAN Committee in Seoul, presenting the ASEAN market as a competitive and trustworthy alternative to China.Cambodian Ambassador to Korea Long Dimanche, who chairs the committee comprising 10 ASEAN ambassadors, told The Korea Herald that ASEAN is playing an increasingly hefty role on the world stage on the back of