SEOUL, Feb 24 – Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday met with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in South Korea on the occasion that he was leaving office and being replaced by the new President-elect Park Geun-hye. Prime Minister Yingluck paid a courtesy call on the outgoing President Lee Myung-bak at the presidential […]
BANGKOK, Feb 21 — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to visit South Korea this weekend to attend Ms Park Geun-hye’s inauguration as president and will later visit Hong Kong on Monday. Ms Yingluck will visit South Korea on Sunday and Monday at the invitation of President-Elect Park Geun-hye to attend her presidential inauguration, a […]
BANGKOK, Nov 9 – President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea arrived Bangkok on Friday for an official visit to Thailand as a guest of the government through Sunday. During the visit, the South Korean President will have bilateral discussions with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at Government House with an aim to enhance […]
SEOUL, Oct 29 (Yonhap) – South Korea will likely set a new date for the launch of its first space rocket Monday after a Russian-made defective part of the rocket made it impossible to send off the rocket last week, officials said. The Launch Preparation Committee was to be convened at 11 a.m. to decide […]
PC Air, the airline that launched last year amid publicity for it transgender flight attendants, has been ordered to halt flights by the Civil Aviation Department after it stranded Thai tourists for two days in South Korea when it could not pay its fuel bill. After being stranded at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport since Tuesday, […]
Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul, the Thai-American member of the K-pop group 2PM, who was booked in South Korea for driving under the influence, will be fined 4 million Korean won (about Bt109,000), a statement from the attorney-general in Seoul said yesterday. The statement said the investigation had been concluded. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, May 25 – Lady Gaga kicked off her ‘Born This Way Ball Tour’ in the Thai capital with 50,000 of her so called ‘little monsters’ expected to view her performance at Rajamangala National Stadium Friday evening. Fans from Japan, Korean, and Vietnam joined thousands of Thai admirers crowding the premises since early morning, despite […]
South Korea appears to be taking seriously the latest attack threat from North Korea. Police say they have increased patrols around headquarters of nine conservative media outlets in Seoul after North Korea vowed to soon carry out a “special military action” on them by “unprecedented means and methods.” Read more: VOANews.com
