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Azerbaijan Ambassador to Korea Ramzi Teymurov speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily at the embassy in Seoul on June 14. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Brother nations Korea and Azerbaijan share history and perseverance

Long ago, somewhere between Eastern Europe and northern Asia, the ancestors of Koreans and Azerbaijanis may have been distant cousins, if not part of a single family. “There is a sense of brotherhood between the two nations and some evidence that...

2022.7.19

NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, center, poses for photographers next to Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, far left, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second from left, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, second from right, and South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol, far right, on the first day of the NATO Summit at IFEMA Convention Center, in Madrid, Spain, on June 29. [EPA/YONHAP]

[Friends for decades] Kiwis and Koreans under spotlight for regional security and economy

It’s no coincidence that the leaders of Korea and New Zealand keep bumping into each other at the high-profile defense and economic security meetings this year. They were both in Madrid attending the NATO summit last week, both at the...

2022.7.5

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Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Korea, speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily on the 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Seoul on May 26. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Dominican Republic, Korea find countries that move together, grow together

A shift in geopolitics and the changing political dynamics within their borders is what nudged both the Dominican Republic and Korea to seek official diplomatic relations 60 years ago. A democracy was budding in the Dominican Republic as it held...

2022.6.5

Medical supplies from Israel to Korea to aid the United Nations forces after the oubreak of the Korean War in 1950. [COHEN FRITZ/ISRAEL GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE]

[Friends for decades] Israeli ambassador says it's time the two countries get married

There’s no mistaking where you’re standing when you enter the Israeli residence in Seoul. Like windows looking in, landscape paintings of Mounts Tabor and Hermon, the Golan Heights and Tiberias decorate the walls on one side, while the other end...

2022.4.14

Mexican veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War launch the first association of the Mexican veterans in Mexico City on April 25, 2021, at the diplomatic residence of the Korean ambassador to Mexico. The ceremony was held in the presence of Mexican and Korean ministers. [YONHAP]

[Friends for decades] Mexico, Korea remember forgotten soldiers

Where have I come to live, asked the thousand Koreans who arrived in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula in 1905. Where have I come to die, asked the thousands of Mexicans who arrived in Korea in 1950 to fight for the freedom and independence of a country...

2022.3.20

Colombian Ambassador to Korea Juan Carlos Caiza speaks to the Korea JoongAng Daily at the Four Seasons Hotel in central Seoul on March 3. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Colombia, Korea pursue creativity and innovation together

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Colombian literature is, as they are stories told by millions of people of Spanish, African and Native America heritages, who have each lived through transformative eras that shaped the Latin American country...

2022.3.9

Ambassador of Latvia to Korea Aris Vigants speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily at the embassy in Seoul on Nov. 17. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Latvia-Korea relations cover everything from the KTX to Lotte Tower

If you have recently hopped on a KTX train, visited Lotte Tower or made your way through a museum in Seoul, you would have no doubt experienced something made in Latvia, said the top envoy from the Baltic nation. “The new generation high-speed...

2021.12.12

Ambassador of Estonia to Korea Sten Schwede speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily at the European Union delegation office in Seoul on Nov. 2. The interview was conducted at the EU office due to ongoing renovation of the Estonian Embassy in Seoul. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Friends for decades] Korea and Estonia make a dynamic duo in cyber innovations

Korea and Estonia have built some of the most digitalized societies in the world, doing everything from filing taxes, registering new homes, and even finding a free parking space in the vicinity online — and this is what could make them apt...

2021.11.15

Exercise Haedoli-Wallaby in 2019. [ROK NAVY]

[Friends for decades] Korea and Australia look to green-powered future

Long before the years when around 180,000 Australians would visit Seoul yearly or an equal number of Koreans would call the Down Under their home, before the two heads of states would get together to ink the diplomatic ties on paper, and even...

2021.9.5

A Portuguese map made in the 16th or 17th century, denotes the sea east of Korea as Mar Coria, or Sea of Korea. [EMBASSY OF PORTUGAL IN KOREA]

[Friends for decades] Korea-Portugal relations no longer require a map

It is unclear when exactly Korea started appearing on maps from around the world, but one of the earlier instances involved a handful of Portuguese mapmakers. “The first Portuguese people to arrive in Korea came in the second half of the 16th...

2021.4.14