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1. South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee returned home on Sunday to South Korea from Yoon’s state visit to the United States. 2. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Seoul this month to consolidate the cooperation between South Korea, US, and Japan. The two countries will both announce the specific date of the...

1. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday delivered a 43-minute address in English to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, emphasizing the cooperation of South Korea and the United States. During his address he uttered the word, “freedom”, 46 times. 2. The National Assembly on Thursday passed motions designating two special investigation proposals as "fast-track" bills. One o...

1. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden released a joint statement after their summit in Washington on Wednesday that outlines the future cooperation of the two nations. It states that the next 70 years of the South Korea-U.S. alliance “will be the brightest yet”. 2. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a joint statem...

1. South Korean President Yoon said with NBC regarding the provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine on Tuesday that South Korea will not ignoreUkraine when it’s the right time to help them. 2. U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally declared his reelection bid for 2024 which is poised to see a re-match between Biden and Trump. This announcement came just a day before the South Korea-U.S. Summit...

1. A U.S. streaming service, Netflix, announced on Monday that it will invest 2.5 billion USD in South Korea over the next 4 years to produce Korean TV shows and movies. This announcement came after the meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in Washington. 2. A South Korean military aircraft carrying 28 nationals from Sudan have arrived in South Korea...

1. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee embarked on a state visit to the United States on Monday. The summit between South Korea and the U.S. is slated for Wednesday this week. 2. Former chair of the main opposition Democratic Party, Song Young-gil said on Sunday in Paris that he will try to solve the issue quietly. Song left Paris to return home to undergo a prosecutio...

1. Ahead of the S.Korea-U.S. summit slated for next week, tensions between South Korea and China, and South Korea and Russia are escalating. This follows South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks regarding Taiwan and provision of lethal aid to Ukraine. 2. South Korea will decide on the new electricity and gas prices for the second quarter next month. This announcement came on Friday after the...

1. The presidential office said Thursday that South Korea’s decision on the provision of lethal aid to Ukraine will depend on Russia. 2. President Yoon Suk Yeol will pay a state visit to the United States for 7 days from April 24 to hold a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on the 26th and to deliver an address before a joint session of Congress on the 27th. 3. The prosecution has sought an arre...

1. According to North Korea’s state-led Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the launch of a military spy satellite after he paid a visit to the National Space Development Agency. 2. Speaking to Reuters in an exclusive interview, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for the first time expressed a willingness to provide weapons to Ukraine, marking a c...

1. The U.S. government announced on Monday that 16 electric vehicles would be eligible for subsidies of up to 7500 U.S. dollars in accordance with the Inflation Reduction Act. Hyundai and Kia by Hyundai Motor Group that were originally eligible for subsidies have been excluded from the list. 2. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol addressed different agendas such as housing fraud, illicit drugs, w...

1. South Korea and Japan held a so-called, two-plus-two meeting, a joint meeting of senior diplomats and defense director generals on Monday to discuss security cooperation in the region against the backdrop of North Korea’s escalating threats. 2. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday visited a port in Wakayama to support the ruling party's candidate in a local election during whic...

1. According to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, an arrest has been made in connection to the leaked Pentagon documents scandal that shook the world last weekend. The suspect is a 21-year-old U.S. air national guardsman from Massachusetts. 2. South Korea's Unification Ministry on Friday released the latest version of its White Paper on Korean unification. Noteworthy is the us...

1. South Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Gunn, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Sung Kim and Takehiro Funakoshi on Thursday held phone consultations on North Korea’s provocations, following the firing of North Korea’s intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the East Sea earlier in the day. 2. The South Korean government announced on Wednesday that students with a history of bully...

1. South Korea's presidential office has dismissed concerns that the United States has been wiretapping the country's National Security Office during an interview on Tuesday, following media reports over alleged Pentagon documents leaked online. 2. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its 2023 economic growth outlook for South Korea to 1.5%, down 0.2 percentage points from its es...

1. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and the U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held phone talks on Tuesday during which Austin explained to Lee about media reports on leaked U.S. military documents and affirmed that the U.S. will cooperate with the South Korean government in handling the issue. 2. South Korea’s foreign ministry on Tuesday called in the deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy...

1. According to the Pentagon on Sunday, a new batch of photos of wrinkled documents was shared online on Friday which revealed information that was seemingly obtained by spying on the presidential office of South Korea. 2. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Representative Michael McCaul has said on Saturday that the U.S. may send troops to Taiwan if it is invaded by China. 3. Starting Monday...

1. According to the latest data released by the Bank of Korea on Friday, South Korea posted a current account deficit for 2 straight months in February, marking the first ever to record a 2-month consecutive deficit in 11 years, amid soaring import prices. 2. South Korea, the United States, and Japan called for the member states of the United Nations on Friday to repatriate all North Korean overse...

1. According to a new report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency Task Force on Wednesday, Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company has a reliable and sustainable radiation protection program for the wastewater discharge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. 2. US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday. After their meeting McC...

1. South Koreans started to cast their ballots on Wednesday morning in local elections and parliamentary elections. Pundits say that the results will reinforce or weaken the mandate of the Yoon administration. 2. Korea Electric Power Corporation saw an increasing demand for its corporate bonds after the company issued more bonds on Tuesday, raising concerns that it will negatively affect the debt...

1. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called for the revised Grain Management Act to be reconsidered, saying it was pushed through forcefully without proper discussion. 2. According to data released by Statistics Korea on Tuesday, South Korea’s Consumer Price Index jumped 4.2% on-year last month, 0.6 percentage points lower than the month before. 3. NASA an...

1. The Korea Forest Service reported at least 35 forest fires across the country on Saturday and Sunday, amid strong spring winds and warmer temperatures causing humidity levels to drop below 20 percent. 2. A three-way naval drill which lasts for 2 days kicked off Monday between South Korea, the U.S., and Japan. It’s aimed at countering advancing underwater threats by North Korea. 3. An explosion...

1. According to Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang on Friday, South Korea will decide on the new electricity and gas prices for the second quarter in the next few days. This announcement came after the South Korean government failed to reach an agreement with the National Assembly on the new rates of utility bills. 2. The South Korean Ministry of Unification on Thursday unveiled a...

1. South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden formally announced that South Korea will be hosting the 3rd Summit for Democracy. 2. A bill that provides tax incentives to South Korean chipmakers is expected to pass the National Assembly on Thursday to boost the country’s semiconductor industry. 3. Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the country’s news agencie...

1. The Summit for Democracy hosted by Washington aimed at enhancing global solidarity for democracy while countering the growing influence of Russia and China kicked off on Tuesday. Topping the meeting on the first day was a call for peace in Ukraine. 2. South Korea on Wednesday decided to include families with two children in the multi-children family bracket, and increase the infertility treatme...

1. The South Korean government on Tuesday expressed deep regrets over the Japanese government’s authorization of primary school text books which diluted the forced nature of wartime Korean laborers and reinforced territorial claims to the Dokdo islets. 2. European and U.S. stocks climbed on Monday after the Silicon Valley Bank became a division of the First Citizens Bank. 3. According to South Kor...