Chairman Chung Ju Yung visited North Korea via Panmunjom for business operations, which were halted due to the late Park Wang ...

However, it was later reduced to a prison term and Sohn won his freedom after South Korean President Kim Dae-jung issued a pardon in 1998. That allowed Sohn to return to Osaka. He had spent 17 ...

As the dust settled, the administration of Kim Dae-jung, president from 1998 to 2003, promised to wrestle power away from chaebols. Over time, as economic growth returned, the political ...

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN)-- A former South Korea president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering better relations between North and South Korea has been placed on a respirator in a hospital ...

President Kim Dae-jung’s Sunshine Policy was aimed specifically at reducing the economic gap between the two nations. More initiatives like these will need to be implemented by Moon and his successors ...

Thanks to a K-drama TV series called “Jewel in the Palace,” which first aired on Netflix in the 2000s and was a hit in this country, Hungary became a hotbed of European hallyu fanaticism early on.

North Korea dismantles streetlights along the Gyeongui Line Railway and Donghae LineMinistry of Unification asserts North ...

subtitled “new Japan-South Korea partnership toward the 21st century,” was signed in Tokyo by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung on Oct. 8, 1998. Obuchi ...

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Donald Kirk is a journalist and the author of several books about Asian affairs, including Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine (2009); Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent (2013); Kim Dae ...

This began to change dramatically in June 2000, when the heads of South Korea (President Kim Dae Jung) and North Korea (President Kim Il Sung) met for the first time in Pyongyang, the capital of North ...

Subsequently WL Ross took substantial positions in Virgin Money, First Michigan, Cascade Bank Corp., Sun Bancorp, Amalgamated Bank, Bank of Ireland and AirLease Corp. In 1999, President Kim Dae Jung ...