The U.S. Embassy is inviting photographers here to submit their best work to a World Wetlands Day photo celebration. The event, under the theme of “Wetlands Tourism: A Great Experience,” is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and is running from Jan. 3-20. Photography enthusiasts are invited to up...

Seoul Global Center is to host a New Year’s party on Jan. 19. The event to run from 2-5 p.m. will include a review session of SGC’s progress as well as an awards ceremony to recognize its volunteers. There will be an exhibition of photographs showcasing SGC activities as well as international foods to sample. Foreign guests are invited to wear their traditional costumes to the event. Attendees wi...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The United States announced Thursday that it will host a high-level trilateral meeting with South Korea and Japan next week to discuss next steps on North Korea, which is apparently seeking massive food aid. The session, to be held in Washington on Tuesday, is the first of its kind since the change of North Korean leadership following the sudden death of its longtime l...

South Korea has made no decision yet on how much to cut its crude oil imports from Iran as part of a U.S.-led campaign to sanction the Middle Eastern nation over seeking nuclear weapons programs, an official said Friday. Presidential spokesman Park Jeong-ha made the remark, denying a newspaper report that Seoul is expected to slash up to half of its crude imports from Iran amid concern a drastic...

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said Thursday his government could launch formal talks with China on forging a bilateral free trade agreement, possibly in the first half of 2012, after finishing domestic procedures to start the talks within "a few months." President Lee Myung-bak told his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during summit talks in Beijing earlier ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it will open 14 senior posts at overseas diplomatic missions to non-diplomats, a move to boost the expertise and competitiveness of South Korean diplomacy. Four of the posts are economic diplomatic ministers in the U.S., China, Japan and Russia. The ministry said it issued an advance notice of the new legislature through the official government new...

TOKYO (Yonhap News) ― Cooperation between South Korea and Japan will be important in dealing with uncertainties arising from North Korea’s leadership change, Seoul’s top envoy to Tokyo said Monday, as Kim Jong-un consolidates power in the communist regime. South Korea and Japan share common interests in maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, leading to mutual exchanges of infor...