South Korea’s Mr Pizza expands in the US
Mr. Pizza, a pizza franchise operated by South Korea’s MPK Group, has opened its fifth store in the United States inside the Westfield Century City shopping mall in California. The new Los Angeles location of Mr. Pizza is on the third floor of the Westfield mall, considered among the largest shopping complexes in the U.S. […]
Korean arrested in Japan on suspicions of Yasukuni bombing
A Korean man was arrested on suspicions of causing an explosion in a public restroom at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese media reported Wednesday. Several Japanese news outlets said that the Metropolitan Police Department (MDP) detained the 27-year-old Korean man, surnamed Jeon, on charges of trespassing on shrine premises, allegedly linking him to the bombing there […]
Retrieval of Joseon era plant samples from Russian museum
National institute of biological resources in South Korea announced their retrieval of Korean plants that date back to the Joseon era from Russia. The institute announced receiving 100 plant samples of Korean old plants collected between 1886 and 1902 from Seoul and Incheon, and had been kept since then in “Komarov” institute for botany in Russia […]
82% South Koreans in favor of reunification
Eight out of 10 South Koreans believe unification with the North is necessary, a survey shows. The National Unification Advisory Council surveyed 1,000 adults last month and 82 percent said unification is necessary while 15.2 percent said it is not. The perception that the divided peninsula needs to be unified has grown from 71.8 percent […]
Ex-President Kim Young-sam’s funeral takes place
The funeral for former President Kim Young-sam began at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul at 2 p.m. today. Over 10,000 mourners attended including Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, the head of the funeral committee, government officials, business representatives and foreign ambassadors and envoys. President Park Geun-hye partially attended the ceremony, paying her last respects at […]
Two Koreas hold working-level dialogue this afternoon
North and South Korea kicked off a working-level meeting on Thursday afternoon to decide details of a high-level talks that the two countries agreed in August to hold as soon as possible, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. The preparatory meeting took place on the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjeom at 12:50 p.m. […]
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