IRNA South Korean oil refining companies have resumed importing crude oil from Iran, wrote Korean media. 'Iranian crude oil export to South Korea has been resumed in six months after the US economic sanctions [on Iran],' wrote 'Business Korea' on Wednesday. 'An oil tanker carrying one million barrels of Iranian crude oil arrived at the Port ...

IRNA - South Korean oil buyers are expected to restart oil imports from Iran in late January or early February, the head of South Koreas SK Innovation, which owns South Koreas biggest oil refiner SK Energy, said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. In November, South Korea won a six-month waiver from sanctions, imposed by the United States, allowing ...

IRNA- The head of the joint chamber of the Islamic Republic of Iran and South Korea proposed to draw closer economic relations between the two countries by forming a joint barter fund for commodities. 'Since 1998, we have economic cooperation with South Korea, and this cooperation has the capability to expand,' Hossein Tanhaie said on Tuesday evening ...

IRNA South Korean Ambassador to Iran Ryu Jeong-hyun hailed Tehran-Seoul diplomatic ties dating back to 1962, saying that the two countries can proceed with commercial relations. In a meeting with Rasht councilors late Monday, he added, Iran will surely overcome unilateral sanctions. Noting that South Korea has been exempted from Iran-related sanctions,...

MNA An officialat ZarandiehGovernorateMohammad Ghanati said South Korea will invest in the construction of a solar power plant in Zarandieh county in Iran, the media reported. A South Korean delegation visited thesolar power plant siteinMarkaziprovince, Ghanati said, adding an area of 28 hectares has been allocated for the implementation of the ...

IRNA Tehran and Seoul has agreed on construction of three hospitals in Iran, said Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi on Thursday. We have signed an agreement on building three hospitals, Hashemi told the correspondent of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) upon arrival at the Incheon International Airport in the South Korean capital....

IRNA - Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Thursday said Tehran is ready to utilize its capacities to expand relations with South Korea. Talking to reporters in Seoul, he said that Iran calls for holding dialogue between the two Koreas. He added Iran is ready to help settlement of disputes between the two Koreas. Larijani reiterated that military ...

MNA Members of the Iranian Parliament have given the nod to extradition of victims between Iranian and South Korean governments. At the Parliaments open session on Monday morning, MPs ratified the bill for the extradition treaty between governments of Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea. Under the terms of the bill, the extradition ...

SEOULSouth Koreas president heads to Iran on Sunday targeting billions of dollars of economic and energy deals in a landmark visit. Also expected on the agenda: Squeezing North Koreas ties to a traditional ally. President Park Geun-hye will help establish a foundation of cooperation with Iran by becoming the first South Korean president to visit ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Kim Sung-ho on Monday called for boosting mutual cooperation between the two countries under the atmosphere prevailing after the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the world powers in Vienna on July 14. "There are no obstacles to the further ...

SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) A senior Iranian official on Tuesday welcomed South Korean investment in his country, saying the oil-rich nation has much to offer in the energy sector. Ali Asghar Arshi, a consultant to the deputy minister of Irans Ministry of Petroleum, said his country will bring long-term benefits to South Korean and other foreign businesses ...

Officials from Iran and South Korea are to discuss ways of expanding relations between the two countries, especially in the field of energy, after international sanctions against the Islamic Republic are removed. According to South Koreas Yonhap news agency, the talks which are scheduled to be held in the South Korean capital city of Seoul on Thursday,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian Parliament's Research Center Kazzem Jalali and his South Korean counterpart Hyun Wook Koh in a meeting in Seoul on Saturday underlined the need to expand ties and cooperation between the two research centers. During the meeting in the South Korean capital today, Jalali and Hyun called for boosting mutual cooperation ...

SEOUL, Nov 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in the first 10 months of 2014 were below the 2013 average, meeting international sanction requirements, and it imported nearly 120,000 tonnes from the United States as it brought the first Alaskan crude in a decade. Preliminary customs data from the world's fifth-largest crude importer ...

Tehran, Sept 10, IRNA A group of South Korean artists are to visit Iran during the last days of summer, according to public relations department of Iran?s Academy of Art. The visit will take place in line with implementation of an agreement between Iran's Academy of Art and South Korea's Arko Art Center on cultural and artistic cooperation. The ...

South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil in February more than doubled to 8.140 million barrels, or 290,714 b/d, compared with 3.974 million barrels a year earlier, data released Tuesday by state-run Korea National Oil Corp. showed. This marks the first year-on-year increase in the country's imports of Iranian crude, after four months of decline....

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Tehran and Seoul stressed boosting presence of South Korean vessels in southern Iranian ports. Deputy Head of Trade Development Organization of South Korea Kiman Nam and Managing Director of Iran's Ports and Navigation Organization Mohammad Saeed-Nejad discussed ways for increased presence of South Korean vessels in Iranian waters in ...

SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to send a delegation of business and trade representatives to Iran to expand its bilateral trade with the Middle East country, the government said Sunday. According to the finance ministry, a business delegation organized by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) plans to visit Tehran and express ...

Under a Nov. 24 agreement with six major powers, Iran won access to $4.2 billion of its oil revenues frozen abroad by eight money-transfer schedules through July if it carried out its part of the deal to curb its nuclear programme. Japanbecame the first of Iran's oil buyers to make a payment to Iran under the eased sanctions earlier this month. It ...

South Korea has called for the opening of a new chapter in Tehran-Soul relations. Iran-South Korea ties have a 50-year-old history, but we want to start a new phase in relations between the two countries, said South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee following a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani on Sunday in Tehran. "Iran ...