National Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee made his first trip to Africa in July and spent 13 days in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. In Dar es Salaam, the government...

South Korea is adamant that it did not and will not authorise the arrival of some 100,000 young Malawian workers, as announced by President Joyce Banda and her...

Ahead of the late May visits to Seoul of Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, new President Park Geun-hye declared that South Korea must...

South Korean diplomats are working to help Daewoo Logistics regain at least part of a huge land-lease deal the company lost after Madagascar's 2009 coup d'état. In May,...

Parliamentarians were up in arms after hearing that up to 100,000 young Malawians could be soon on their way to work in South Korea’s factories and farms in...

In early February, Lee Suk-chae, Chief Executive of South Korean telecommunications firm KT (formerly Korea Telecom), indicated that he would be bidding for the 53% stake in Maroc...

South Korean companies are the contractors of choice for African governments but the East Asian country is also expanding its peacekeeping and official development assistance (ODA) agenda in...

The arrival of Park Geun-hye in power in late February 2013 is likely to signal continuity rather than change in South Korea’s Africa policy. The daughter of former...