The South Korean government made an official complaint to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for introducing the country as North Korea during the opening ceremony held on Friday in Paris, France.
U.S. Ambassador to Korea Philip Goldberg emphasized the availability of all American strategic assets for deployment to the Korean Peninsula in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo.
Korea and Japan tentatively agreed to register the Sado mines linked to forced Korean labor as a Unesco World Heritage site after Japan promised to inform visitors of its full history.
South Korea and China held vice-ministerial strategic talks for the first time in two years and seven months, amid closer military and economic ties between North Korea and Russia.
Korean Ambassador to Indonesia Lee Sang-deok was appointed as the second commissioner of the Overseas Korean Agency on Thursday. A career diplomat, Lee previously served as ambassador to Singapore and counselor at the Korean embassy in Beijing.
President Yoon Suk Yeol dispatched special envoys to the Czech Republic to discuss follow-up measures after a Korean consortium was selected as the preferred bidder for a major nuclear power plant project, the presidential office said Tuesday.
Commander Victor Hugo Molina Perez, who helms the Cuauhtémoc, a training ship of the Mexican Navy, sat down for an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily on Friday.
A student delegation from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) visited Korea this week to attend the "Korea-Vietnam Future Dialogue," an opportunity to promote bilateral youth exchanges.
South Korea's presidential office said on Thursday it would review the preceding Moon Jae-in administration's alleged involvement with former CIA official Sue Mi Terry, who was indicted in the United States on charges of being a South Korean agent.
Experts at a Seoul-based think tank emphasized the significance of the Indo-Pacific as the stage for the "Great Game" that will shape the global trends of the 21st century, calling for heightened interest in the strategy.
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