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Projection of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit

“Katchi kapshida!” (“We go together”) U.S. President Barack Obama declared in concluding his speech at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on March 26. Delivered on the sidelines of his participation in the 2012 ...
Water Stress in Korea

Today we celebrate the 20th annual World Water Day. This day was formally proposed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992 to increase awareness about the importance ...
Truth about Gureombi Rock

Amid the prolonged disputes over the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island, we often hear the unfamiliar word "gureombi." On her visit to the controversial construction site on March 7, Han Myeong-sook, chairwoman of the mai...

Historian Lee Ki-baek and Publisher Kim Seong-ja...

The first issue of “Korean History Lecture for Citizens” published by Ilchokak appeared in August 1987. The semiannual academic periodical never missed publication for 25 years until it recently stopped at the 50th issue, comple...
North Korea’s External Debts: Trend and Charact...

North Korea should begin repaying South Korea’s food loans this year. The South provided food to the North on six occasions between 2000 and 2007, delivering a total of 2.4 million tons of rice and 200,000 tons of corn worth US$7...

North Korea’s Economic System in the Kim Jong-u...

Since the death of North Korea’s National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il, the world has been paying extraordinary attention to the country’s future. Most of the interest is on whether the late leader’s son, Kim Jong-un...

Architectural Hallyu Attracts Young Architects f...

“Fascinated by Korea’s innovative and elegant design, I have studied architecture for the past few years with an aim of working in Korea. I hope to have an opportunity to learn more in your company… Sincerely yours.”
Rethinking the Theories on North Korea’s Demise...

The odds of North Korea remaining intact under the watch of Kim Jong-un have come under intense international scrutiny following the death of former leader Kim Jong-il. A number of books on the untested new leader have been pu...
Stephen Linton: “I have inherited the gene of 1...

Dr. Stephen Linton can’t remember the lyrics of a single American pop song but he can recite the names of more than 500 tuberculosis patients of his, all living in North Korea. He is concerned that the 11-year-old girl named Su-j...