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A ship loaded with 100,000 tons of rice for international aid is anchored at Gunsan Port in North Jeolla, ready for departure, on Wednesday. [MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS]

Korea doubles food assistance to 100,000 tons for 11 countries

Korea is upping its contribution through the World Food Programme to 100,000 tons for 11 countries this year.

2024.4.17

No one can be saved if we do nothing

I hope Korea can lead the way to spread hope for people suffering from extreme food shortages.

2023.12.10

Korea to provide 50,000 tons of rice to 6 poverty-hit nations

Korea has decided to donate 50,000 tons of rice to six countries suffering from poverty and food shortages, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday. The rice will be sent to Yemen, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Syria and Afghanistan in cooperation with...

2023.4.21

Ville Skinnari, the Finnish minister for development cooperation and foreign trade, speaks with a group of foreign press at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Helsinki on Thursday. [ESTHER CHUNG]

A meal a day can change the world

When Ville Skinnari, the Finnish minister of development cooperation and foreign trade, says that the Finns’ school meal program is part of their social DNA, he means it. The initiative, which feeds all of Finland’s nearly 850,000 students from...

2022.10.17

Screen capture of the live streaming of the International Career Fair hosted by the Foreign Ministry with international organizations and local governments at the Seoul City Hall in 2019. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

International organizations based in Korea to host job fair

International organizations based in Korea, including offices of the UN Refugee Agency and the World Food Programme, are hosting a job fair in Seoul, Incheon and North Jeolla this week...

2022.10.9

A village in North Hwanghae Province, one of North Korea's most important grain-producing areas, is shown heavily flooded in state media footage from July. The downpours, and the pandemic, aggravated the country's food insecurity this year, but Pyongyang refuses to accept help. [YONHAP]

After Pyongyang refused rice donation, Seoul looks to recoup money

Seoul’s top inter-Korean agency said Monday it is in negotiations with the World Food Programme (WFP) to be reimbursed for the cost of sending 50,000 tons of rice aid to North Korea which Pyongyang refused to take.

2020.12.1