Director Park Chan-wook's new film "No Other Choice" on the evening of Sept. 17 opened this year's Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). A news conference for the movie on Sept. 17 was held at the ...

Chinese travelers on group tours from Sept. 29 can visit Korea without a visa for up to 15 days under a temporary visa-waiver program ending next year on June 30. This was reported on Sept. 7 under a ...

A recent travel trend is to shun one-off visits in favor of going to the same places multiple times for visitors to build their personal experiences and memories. This method seeks to discover new ...

Vietnam's top leader To Lam, who is general secretary of his country's Communist Party, will pay a state visit to Korea from Aug. 10-13 at the invitation of President Lee Jae Myung as the first ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) on July 27 said they will jointly host a "new space seminar" with three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, ...

Domestic output and exports of cosmetics last year both set record highs. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on May 27 said its analysis of national cosmetics production, exports and imports last ...

The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Business Travel Card, which allows business travelers from APEC member states to enter 19 economies in the group including Korea quickly and easily without ...

The level of overseas development assistance (ODA) last year grew 24.8% from 2023 to USD 3.94 billion. The Office for Government Policy Coordination (OGPC) on April 17 announced this in quoting ...

A new government initiative seeks to develop the core technology for Hypertube trains, or "airplanes on rails." The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on April 9 announced a three-year ...

Minister for Trade Inkyo Cheong of the Republic of Korea and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič co-chaired the 12th Korea-EU FTA Trade Committee (“Committee”) meeting ...

March 1, 1919, was when the Korean people led a non-violent movement to demand liberation from Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and announce to the world the nation's desire for ...

New measures this year will seek to help expats better adjust to life in Korea. The following are policy changes for foreign nationals who either plan to visit Korea or live there. First, a system to ...