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Arts-Culture Chairwoman Rho Young-hye leads globalization of Korea Jongie Jupgi (Paper folding)
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee The '2025 44th New Year Leadership Development Highest Course for Culture and Arts' hosted by the Korea Paper Culture Foundation-World Jongie Jupgi Organization (Chairwoman Rho Young-hye) was held at the Jongie Nara Museum in Jangchung-dong, Seoul on Feb. 10. The event was attended by more than 100 participants, including foundation executives, education directors, branch directors, and specially registered instructors for leadership training, who shared their vision for the globalization of Korea Jongie Jupgi (Paper folding). Delivering welcome speech, Chairwoma
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- 2025-02-18 17:04
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Diplomacy Belarus Amb. Chernetsky delivers a lecture at 29th Diplomatic Int'l Forum
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Korea Andrew Chernetsky delivered a lecture to high-school students at the 29th Diplomatic International Forum of Seoul organized by the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Korea (HOBY Korea) at the Hoseo University Seoul campus on February 15, 2025. In his lecture, the Ambassador paid the attention of the audience to current challenges and new prospects for cooperation between countries and regions against the backdrop of high volatility of international contacts and a rapidly changing world order. During his
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- 2025-02-18 15:20
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Local New challenges for restoring Korea's identity and human co-prosperity
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young The Republic of Korea is currently experiencing a major economic, political, and social crisis. Although each of us has been living our lives to the best of our abilities, the reason we are facing such a difficult situation is because we have lost our identity as "people." Who owns Korea? The people of Korea. But unfortunately, the true sense of “people” is disappearing in our society. This is because we belong to various organizations, but we have lost our identity as a people, which should be the most fundamental thing. Since the founding of Korea, our soci
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- 2025-02-18 14:46
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Global Uzbekistan–Kuwait: A course towards expanding cooperation
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo The following article was contributed by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Seoul to Diplomacy Journal for publication. --Ed. Kuwait formally recognized the independence of Uzbekistan on December 30, 1991, and in July 1994, two nations established diplomatic relations, affirming a shared commitment to fostering mutually beneficial and constructive partnership grounded in equality and respect for each other’s interests. The high-level reciprocal visits to Kuwait in 2004 and Uzbekistan in 2008, respectively, laid a solid foundation for the advancement of collaboration.
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- 2025-02-17 16:40
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Arts-Culture Hansae Yes24 Foundation publishes 3 books of representative Filipino modern literature
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and the Philippines last year, Hansae Yes24 Foundation published three volumes of the Philippine Anthology of Southeast Asian Literature. The books are “Love on the Second Read” by Filipino national author Mica De Leon and “The Woman with Two Bellybuttons,” and “Tropical Gothic Tales,” by Nick Joaquin. The Southeast Asian Literature Anthology is a series in which the Foundation presents a selection of acclaimed contemporary literary works from Southeast Asia. In 2022,
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- 2025-02-17 16:27
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Local Meokdoraji (wild balloon flowers) collected by Simmani with 30-year experience
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee As the respiratory health of modern humans is under threat, hand-harvested wild balloon flowers (Meokdoraji) collected by a Simmani (wild ginseng digger) with 30-year experience is gaining attention. The essence of the long-lived balloon flower, which has been growing for decades in the deep mountains, has gained great popularity among consumers for its excellent effects on immunity and lung health. Unlike conventionally cultivated balloon flowers, Meokdoraji are those that have grown in nature for 20 years to over 100 years without being affected by pesticides o
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- 2025-02-17 15:36
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Local Diplomacy Journal, founded in 1996, celebrates its 28th anniversary
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee Diplomacy Journal, founded in 1996, is celebrating its 28th anniversary. Over the past 28 years, Diplomacy Journal has been at the forefront of documenting the flow of international diplomacy and promoting cooperation and cultural exchanges between countries, and now aims to further develop as a global diplomatic journal. Over the years, Diplomacy Journal has provided readers with insightful information through in-depth coverage of a variety of topics, including interviews with foreign ambassadors, international foreign policy analysis, economic trends, and cultu
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- 2025-02-17 14:35
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Diplomacy Korea, U.S., Japan hold a trilateral foreign ministers' meeting
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met in Munich on February 15 to reaffirm the unwavering trilateral partnership between the United States, South Korea, and Japan. They underscored their shared commitment to the safety, security, and prosperity of the three countries and the Indo-Pacific region. They pledged to take decisive steps to counter threats, strengthen economic resilience, and advance common interests. Strengthening Korea-U.S.-Japan security cooperation The three mi
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- 2025-02-17 11:08
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Diplomacy Seoul Council Speaker Choi meets with Irish Amb. Winthrop
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee Speaker Choi Ho-jeong of Seoul Metropolitan Council visited the Evergreen Tree Welfare Center in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Korea, with Irish Ambassador to Korea Michelle Winthrop on Feb. 12. The welfare center, which is operated by the social welfare corporation St. John of God Brothers, is a self-supporting facility that provides comprehensive services for people with developmental disabilities to live independently as members of the community, and is operated under the guidance of the Ireland-based Hospitaller Order of St. John of God. The visit was organized by Ambas
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- 2025-02-13 16:05
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Diplomacy Seoul City Council Member Kim meets with Kyrgyz Amb. Ismailova
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Kim Chun-gon, a member of the Seoul City Council's Environment and Water Resources Committee, met with Ambassador Aida Ismailova of Kyrgyzstan to Korea to discuss revitalizing the wellness industry between the two countries. Rep. Kim met Ambassador Ismailova when she was a member of the Kyrgyz National Assembly in 2018 and reunited with her seven years later when she was appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in 2022. "Korea and Kyrgyzstan are striving to further activate exchanges in the future, and there are many areas for mutual cooperation in th
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- 2025-02-13 14:28
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Diplomacy Foreign ambassadors‘ wives experience Korea's Jeongwol Daeboreum food
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee "Members of the Ambassadors' Spouses Association in Seoul (ASAS) participated in a Korean temple food experience program at the Korean Temple Food and Culture Experience Center in Anguk-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the occasion of the Jeongwol Daeboreum (the day of the first full moon of the lunar year)," said Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism. Twenty-one ambassadors' spouses from 17 countries, including the United States, Australia, Bolivia, Hungary, and Japan, cooked and tasted Korean Jeongwol Daeboreum foods such as tricolor herbs and five-grain rice. At the eve
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- 2025-02-13 11:01
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Business SK bioscience joins hands with WHO to cope with infectious disease crisis
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo SK bioscience has successfully completed a project as the only private company participating in a joint study organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) aimed at establishing an international standard for the SARS virus, in response to the global infectious disease crisis, the company said on Feb. 12. In October of last year, the WHO announced the international standard for the SARS virus, with SK bioscience playing a key role in conducting immunogenicity analysis during this process. The project involved 12 health authorities and institutions leading glo
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- 2025-02-12 16:43
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Diplomacy Uzbek and Kyrgyz ambassadors visit digital twin company EGIS
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Following the visit of Uzbek Ambassador to Korea Alisher Abdusalomov on Feb. 4, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Korea Aida Ismailova visited the digital twin company EGIS' headquarters located in Suseong Alpha City, Daegu on Feb. 5. These ambassadors visited EGIS to express their gratitude for the company's active cooperation, an EGIS spokesman said. EGIS is currently supporting the national digital transformation by participating in pilot operations and feasibility studies for information and communication technology (ICT) cooperation projects such as digital cultural he
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- 2025-02-12 15:12
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Diplomacy Yeoju City Mayor Lee meets with Greek Amb. to Korea Loukas Tsokos
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee Mayor Lee Chung-woo of Yeoju City met with the new Greek Ambassador to Korea, Loukas Tsokos, who visited Yeoju City on Feb. 10, to discuss the promotion of a sister city relationship between the Greek city of Papagou and Yeoju City. After the meeting, they visited the Greek military memorial. The new Greek Ambassador to Korea and his wife, as well as the Greek defense attaché to Korea, Archbishop of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Korea, and Gyeonggi Eastern Veterans Affairs Office Director Son Ae-jin were present at the meeting. The visitation ceremony was also atte
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- 2025-02-12 14:18
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Local [Damwha Column 曇華風月] Constitutional Court of Korea's decision and judicial trust
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young In order to maintain a just society, the law must be operated based on fairness and trust. Dasan Jeong Yak-yong (丁若鏞, 1762-1836), a Silhak scholar of the late Joseon Dynasty who studied practical matters, wrote "Heumheumsinseo欽欽新書" and sought ways to rationally enforce criminal law and prevent unjust prison cases. This was part of efforts to improve the judicial system at the time and is considered an important guideline for fair trials. In modern society, securing fairness and trust in the judicial system is an important task, and legal measures such as the
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- 2025-02-12 10:38
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Buddha's birthday celebrated with blessing ceremony at temples nationwide
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SML Biopharm of Korea signs MOU with Affilogic of France
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US Cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV
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Thai Amb. Sangrat lends support to Cheongju Airport runway construction
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'British Cultural Village' to be built in Gangseo-gu, Busan
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SK bioscience and KDCA initiate development of Avian influenza vaccine
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Iraq opens new horizons for global investment in its reconstruction projects
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Ecuadorian Ambassador Suarez meets with KOIMA Chairman Yoon
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SML Biopharm of Korea signs MOU with Affilogic of France
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