News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
The South also offered 20 tons of milk powder and medicine for children, pregnant women and other vulnerable people, its unification ministry said...It would be the first official one since a conservative government came to power in Seoul in February...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
The small but symbolic offer does not mean Seoul's conservative government, which has linked aid to Pyongyang's progress in abandoning its nuclear programs, is resuming full-scale assistance to the communist nation, officials said. Unification...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
South Korea will make a small grant of humanitarian aid to North Korea , ending its suspension of handouts after a series of conciliatory gestures from its destitute rival, an official said on Monday. Apart from reaching out to the South, the North...
News Source: Macleans
| about 1 month ago
South Korea is considering sending up to 30,000 tons of corn to North Korea in what would be its first direct food aid to its impoverished neighbour in nearly two years, a news report said Sunday. South Korea planned to announce the aid as early as...
News Source: China Post
| about 1 month ago
The rate of obesity in South Korea reached its highest level ever last year, nearing one third of the entire adult population, according to a report by the National Health Insurance Corporation. Among the 9.88 million people who received their...
News Source: China Post
| about 1 month ago
07 am TWN, The Korea Herald/Asia News Network Seoul to resume minimum humanitarian aid to N. Korea South Korea plans to limitedly resume humanitarian aid to North Korea in the near future, Seoul's point man on the North said Friday, according to...