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SouthKorea'stoppolicymakerinchargeofaffairsontheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)saidFridaythatthecountrywouldmulltheresumptionoftheinter-Koreanfactorypar
Five months after Seoul shut down a jointly run industrial park in DPRK, South Korean factory owners are still waging a defiant campaign to reopen what was the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
South Korean companies facing actual bankruptcy after an abrupt shutdown of the once-jointly-run factory park with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are struggling to cover potential losses estimated at hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday decided to shut down a jointly-run factory park with South Korea just a day after Seoul's announcement to stop operations at the industrial zone in the DPRK' s border city of Kaesong.
South Korean companies running factories at the Kaesong Industrial complex on Thursday crossed the inter-Korean border into the jointly-run industrial park with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), to bring back products and materials.
South Korea's unification ministry plans to restrict the entry of workers into the Kaesong industrial complex, an inter-Korean factory park in the namesake city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), local media reported Thursday.
South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed Thursday to hold talks about the operation of the cooperative Kaesong industrial zone next week, Seoul's unification ministry said.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has canceled its earlier approval of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Thursday visit to the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
A group of South Korean businessmen representing businesses running factories in the Kaesong industrial complex headed for the border town of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) amid the ongoing wage row between the two sides. The delegation crossed the inter-Korean land border on Friday morning to visit Kaesong, just north of the heavily fortified demarcation line, according to the Unification Ministry.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reconfirmed their different positions on wage hike for DPRK workers in the Kaesong industrial zone during Tuesday contact, Seoul's unification ministry said on Wednesday.
South Korea's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs expressed regrets on Monday over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) silence toward Seoul's dialogue offer on the Kaesong industrial complex.
South Korea and the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold talks on the inter-Korean factory park in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong, the first such dialogue in some six months, a unification ministry official said Tuesday.
South Korea and the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) started their first talks in six months on Thursday in Kaesong, the DPRK's border town, about running the inter-Korean factory park, Seoul's unification ministry said.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday accepted South Korea's offer to hold sub- panel talks on travel, communication and customs of the Kaesong industrial complex, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
A group of South Korea lawmakers crossed the border line separating two Koreas into the Kaesong industrial complex to make an on-site inspection during the parliamentary audit session, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Wednesday.
South Korea and the United States planned to discuss next month whether to entitle products manufactured in the Kaesong industrial complex to preferential tariffs under the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) framework, Seoul's commerce ministry said Sunday.