BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday congratulated Moon Jae-in on his election as South Korean president.
Polls have opened in South Korea's presidential election, called early after a corruption scandal that brought down President Park Geun-hye.
Myanmar has delayed the building of Yangon-Dala cross-river bridge until January 2018 instead of this year, the local 7-Day News reported Monday.
South Korea has returned the remains of Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War to China on Wednesday at an airport ceremony in Seoul.
South Korea's government will consider filing a complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against what they described as China's trade retaliation after Seoul agreed to deploy a US anti-missile system, the ruling party said on Tuesday (March 7).
South Korean business people in downtown Seoul, where Chinese tourists once packed the streets before the decision to deploy a U.S. missile shield in their homeland, complained about falling profits as a result of fewer Chinese customers.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) test-fired four ballistic missiles into east waters early Monday as combined forces of South Korea and the United States launched their joint military exercises last week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of South Korea said.
Fascinated by South Korean cinema, which has boomed this century, Japanese actors and cineastes have crossed the sea to work in their neighboring country’s film industry.
The shutters have started coming down at South Korea’s biggest dog meat market as the country seeks to head off international criticism over its practice of killing dogs for human consumption before it hosts the 2018 Winter Olympics.
South Korea's trade surplus in the media content sector surpassed the US$500 million mark for the first time ever last year, on the back of increased overseas sales of popular movies, music and TV drama series, data showed Monday.
The foreign ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Thursday to closely coordinate in dealing with North Korea’s test-firing Sunday of a ballistic missile in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
South Korea's defense ministry said the United States had agreed to deploy strategic assets for annual joint military exercises, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing a ministry report submitted to a parliamentary committee.
The first U.S. defense chief under Trump administration visited South Korea on Thursday, picking the Northeast Asian ally as his first overseas tour destination since he took office about two weeks earlier.
Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States on Tuesday reaffirmed the bilateral agreement to deploy the U.S. missile shield, called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), in South Korean soil despite strong oppositions at home and abroad.
The U.S. and South Korean presidents spoke on the phone Sunday and agreed to take steps to strengthen their countries' joint defense capabilities.
Acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo-ahn said on Monday the deployment of a US anti-missile defence system can not be delayed in the face of a growing DPRK's nuclear missile threat and despite Beijing’s hostility to the move.
Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, on Sunday reported on Donald Trump officially becoming the president of the United States .
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