First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong has been tapped to be the new ambassador to the United States, a diplomatic source said Thursday, a day after the current ambassador was named the new national security adviser. Cho would replace Ambassador Cho Tae-yong, who was picked to replace Kim Sung-han as the national security adviser Wednesday. Kim announced his resignation the same day amid reports of trouble over a planning issue related to President Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to the Unit

Some 100 government and corporate officials from South Korea and Japan held a meeting Thursday on trade and new industry cooperation, the first major meeting after the two sides vowed to improve diplomatic and economic ties earlier this month, Seoul's industry ministry said. They discussed ways to boost cooperation in new industry sectors and economic exchanges in the trade meeting in Seoul, co-hosted by the Korea International Trade Association and the Korea-Japan Economic Association, acc

Rep. Kim Sang-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday proposed a parliamentary resolution denouncing Japan's controversial textbooks and its sovereignty claim of South Korea's easternmost Dokdo islets. The resolution warns that the Japanese government's distorted perception of history could significantly hurt trust between South Korea and Japan and urges Tokyo to apologize over its past wrongdoings. The proposal came after Tokyo's approval of new textbooks tha

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Textbooks that Japan’s elementary school students will use from next year contain distorted information about Korean and Japanese history. The government-approved textbooks apparently water down the coercive nature of Japan’s wartime wrongdoings and strengthen its sovereignty claim to South Korea's Dokdo islets, among other things. Historical distortions in textbooks has been getting worse, with Japan increasing ambiguous expressions and unfounded arguments to avoid admitting re

The banking crisis, sparked by a loss of confidence by depositors and investors, toppled several banks in the US and Switzerland. It is now spreading into the eurozone. Given the tightly interlinked nature of financial systems across the globe, it is too naive to expect that South Korea would be left unscathed. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the past few weeks sparked turmoil in the global banking sector. After the collapse of Credit Suisse, which was taken over by UBS