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Xing Haiming, the Chinese ambassador to Korea, speaks at a press conference organized by the Kwanhun Club at the Korea Press Center in Seoul on Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Chinese envoy to U.S.: Don't meddle with Taiwan

China's envoy in Seoul said Washington should mind its own business when it comes to Taiwan affairs on Wednesday. “We will never acknowledge Taiwan’s independence,” said Xing Haiming, the Chinese ambassador to Korea, at a press conference at the...

2022.10.26

Ambassador of Vietnam to Korea Nguyen Vu Tung speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily about the 30 years of Vietnam-Korea relations at the Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Vietnam, Korea ‘shelve the past’ for a closer future

There comes a time in many relationships, be it romantic or even between countries, in which it is necessary to define the extent or terms of the relationship. Such is the case for Vietnam and Korea, whose foreign ministers announced last week an...

2022.10.24

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Aug. 8. [AFP/YONHAP]

Beijing wags finger at Seoul on Thaad, Three Nos

Just a day after a foreign ministers meeting Korea hailed as friendly and frank, the Chinese Foreign Ministry rekindled the debate on a U.S.-led antimissile system — and told Seoul to keep to past promises...

2022.8.11

Korea's Foreign Minister Park Jin, far left, speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, far right, in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Park tries to assuage Wang on chips in Qingdao

If Korea meets with the United States to discuss semiconductors, it is not meant to isolate any specific country, Foreign Minister Park Jin told China's top envoy Wang Yi on Tuesday. “Minister Park made it clear that the recent decision by...

2022.8.10

Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands in their meeting in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on Tuesday. [MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS]

Korean envoy gets headwind from Pelosi's visit in China

Foreign Minister Park Jin said he intends to use his visit to China as an opportunity to expand channels of communications between the countries. “Strategic competition between the United States and China is intensifying, and factors that threaten...

2022.8.9

Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands after a photo session during the Asean Plus Three foreign ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday. [YONHAP]

'Chip 4,' Thaad likely to be discussed by Korea, China's top envoys

Foreign Minister Park Jin is in China through Wednesday to meet its top envoy, Wang Yi, possibly to discuss the controversial “Chip 4” alliance and the U.S.-led antimissile system in Korea. Park was scheduled to meet with Wang in Qingdao, Shandong...

2022.8.8

Foreign Minister Park Jin speaks with the press at the ministry headquarters in Seoul on Monday. [YONHAP]

Top envoy says China policy is Korea's own, not the West's

Korea will have its own policy on its neighbor, China, based on mutual respect and trust, said Foreign Minister Park Jin on Monday -- not driven by the West. “It’s not about tailoring our policies to the West’s,” Park told the press at…

2022.7.11

Foreign Minister Park Jin, top and bottom right, in a video conference call with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, bottom left, on May 16. [NEWS1]

Korea, China's top envoys may be getting together

Foreign Minister Park Jin may be meeting China's top envoy Wang Yi at the G20 foreign ministerial summit in Indonesia this week. Such a meeting would be the first since Korea sworn in its conservative government led by Yoon Suk-yeol two months...

2022.7.6

Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming, left, meets with Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs Noh Kyu-duk, right, at the Government Complex in central Seoul on May 3. [NEWS1]

[ANALYSIS] How will Yoon deal with China?

Yoon Suk-yeol, the prosecutor general-turned-president who was sworn in Tuesday, has made clear that the alliance with Washington and better relations with Japan were foreign policy priorities. Less clear is how he will deal with the 800-pound...

2022.5.10

From left, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance; Michael Reiterer, distinguished professor at the CSDS and former ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Korea; and Kim Chang-beom, former ambassador to the EU and current advisor at the Center for Strategic and Cultural Studies, speak with the Korea JoongAng Daily about their joint report on policy recommendations for the Yoon Suk-yeol government on Europe, at the Plaza Seoul. [PARK SANG-MOON]

Europe sees Korea as closer partner on energy and security amid geopolitical crisis: experts

The war in Ukraine has raised huge energy challenges for both Europe and Asia, and a group of European and Korean experts have released a list of recommendations as to how the Yoon Suk-yeol administration can take advantage of the situation. “It has…

2022.5.2