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 ...

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 ...

A newly enacted law on artificial intelligence (AI) has formed the basis for the national development of AI. The Ministry of Science and ICT on Dec. 26 said the National Assembly in a plenary session ...

People going on blind or ordinary dates can now do so with government support. They can get married in public museums or parks, and pay just KRW 10,000 in rent per month for their new home after ...

The Bukcheong lion dance has been handed down through the generations in the region of Bukcheong in South Hamgyeong Province, in what is now North Korea. Originally, this lion dance was performed as ...

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on July 2 unanimously raised Korea's status from a developing economy to a developed one, reclassifying the nation from Group A (Asian ...

Described as the son of the heavens, Jumong was the founding king of Goguryeo, which eventually became the largest dynasty in Korean history. Also known as the Holy King of the East, mythological ...

An augmented reality (AR) image of a wyvern, a mythical dragon-like creature, on March 23 suddenly appeared on the opening day of the 2019 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season at Incheon's SK ...

The abacus is considered the oldest calculating device used by humans but in the 1940s, a Korean man invented an abacus-like counting method using fingers called jisanbeop or chisanbop, a term that ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched Seoul Tour Map to make finding popular attractions in the capital easy. The digital map offers a one-stop service for checking the city's best tourist ...

Korea.net has launched a new collaborative project with its honorary reporters around the world. Each honorary reporter will write a story on the same topic, but from each of their own home cities.

Twenty years ago, the Asiatic black bear was released back into the wild. In 2004, the Ministry of Environment and Korea National Park Service adopted six such bears from Primorsky Krai in Russian Far ...