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Kaesong

Kaesong is a special administrative region of North Korea formed in 2002 featuring the Kaesong Industrial Park, a collaborative economic development zone with South Korea. The park is located 10 kilometres north of the Korean Demilitarised Zone and allows South Korean companies to employ cheap skilled labour whilst providing North Korea with an important source of foreign currency.

Tourists from China pose for photos before the Three Charters monument in Pyongyang in 2019. Photo: AFP

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Members of defector organisation Fighters for Free North Korea release balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border in this 2016 file photo. Photo: EPA

South Korean businessmen remain bitter about government’s ‘empty promises’ after Kaesong complex shut down

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A glimpse inside Kaesong, North Korea's curious capitalist outpost

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Two Koreas restart operations at Kaesong industrial zone

17 Sep 2013 - 6:18AMvideocam

Businessmen and women walk through a border checkpoint in Paju near the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas as people head back to the North's Kaesong industry complex. Photo: AFP

Two Koreas begin talks on reopening Kaesong joint industrial zone

North and South Korea held the first meeting yesterday of a committee tasked with reopening their Kaesong joint industrial zone - five months after it was shut down amid soaring military tensions.

3 Sep 2013 - 4:35AM

Kim Ki-woong, head of the South Korea delegation. Photo: Xinhua

Update | Koreas reach agreement to reopen Kaesong industrial zone

North and South Korea reached an agreement yesterday to reopen the Kaesong joint industrial zone - closed by Pyongyang in April at the height of soaring military tensions.

15 Aug 2013 - 4:24AM

South Korea businessmen call for Kaesong deal on eve of last-ditch talks

13 Aug 2013 - 3:00PM

South Korea offers final talks on Kaesong joint industrial zone

South Korea has proposed "final" talks with the North over the fate of the shuttered Kaesong joint industrial zone, suggesting it may permanently close the estate if the negotiations fail.

29 Jul 2013 - 6:20AM

Ryoo Kihl-jae, South Korea's unification minister, said Seoul will extend a 'final offer' for talks of the suspended industrial complex in North Korea's border town of Kaesong. Photo: EPA

Update | Shoving match as Korean talks on Kaesong collapse

North Korea on Friday blasted South Korea’s “arrogant” attitude after talks on salvaging the jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone collapsed, sparking a shoving match between officials from both sides.

27 Jul 2013 - 1:58AM

A South Korean official (centre) tangles with representatives of the North during the scuffle at the Kaesong industrial estate. Photo: AFP

Koreas fail to reach deal on jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone

South Korea said talks with North Korea on reopening a jointly-run industrial estate ended without agreement on Wednesday, but the two sides agreed to meet again next week.

11 Jul 2013 - 3:18AMvideocam

Two Koreas start fresh talks on joint Kaesong industrial site

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

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Two Koreas agree to allow managers to return to Kaesong industrial park

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

Suh Ho (right), head of the South Korean working-level delegation, shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Park Chol-Su after their talks. Photo: AFP

North and South Korea open rare talks on Kaesong joint industrial zone

The talks - delayed by nearly two hours - follow months of friction and threats of war from Pyongyang after its February nuclear test led to tougher UN sanctions, further squeezing its struggling economy.

7 Jul 2013 - 5:55AM

South Korea rejects ‘incomprehensible’ North demands

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

South Korea sees progress on workers’ return from North

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The Grand Unification Bridge, leading to the Kaesong industrial complex inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is seen in Paju, north of Seoul. Photo: Xinhua

Last South Korean workers to leave Kaesong

29 Apr 2013 - 5:10PM

South Korean workers unload products made at the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, after the products arrived at at a military checkpoint in the border city of Paju, on Saturday. Photo: AFP

South Korea offers North talks over Kaesong, warns on refusal

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

UN's Ban Ki-moon urges North Korea to consider South’s dialogue offer

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

North blocks South Koreans taking supplies to Kaesong workers

North Korea barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone yesterday, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations. A delegation of 10 businessmen representing the 123 South Korean firms in Kaesong had applied to travel to the zone to bring food and other daily necessities to their staff and to inspect their facilities.

18 Apr 2013 - 2:07AMvideocam

South Korean cars, carrying sacks of clothes made in the Kaesong joint industrial complex, arrive at the border city of Paju. Photo: AFP

North Korea bars South delegation from joint zone

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

South Korean representatives of the business companies at Kaesong greet a car carrying sacks of clothes made in North Korea's Kaesong joint industrial complex on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

North Korea dismisses South’s dialogue offer on Kaesong

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

Pyongyang blames South Korean leader Park for Kaesong closure

North Korea on Thursday renewed a threat to permanently close its Kaesong joint industrial zone with South Korea, blaming the “confrontation” policies of the South’s new president, Park Geun-hye.

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13AM

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