What’s the raison d’être of the CIO?

Kim Jin-wook, the first head of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), will retire this Saturday after finishing his three-year term. But he didn’t keep his promise to “turn the CIO …

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The new Global Risks Report for this year was disclosed by the World Economic Forum this month. It contains leading insights on the evolving global risk…

The top nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan were set to hold talks in Seoul on Thursday as tensions are running high on the Korean Peninsula amid North Korea’s belligerent rhetoric and its deepening military cooperation with Rus…

The United States warned Wednesday against North Korea’s potential provision of additional military aid to Russia for use in Ukraine, as Pyongyang’s top diplomat visited Moscow this week in an apparent sign of deepening bilateral ties.

At the invitat…

President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to provide full support for the development of North Jeolla Province as it gained the status of a special self-governing province on Thursday.

With the new status, which was established under a special law in December 20…

After more than five decades, the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS), a government agency under the culture ministry responsible for promoting Korea abroad, will be shutting down as part of a restructuring plan.

The Ministry of Culture, S…