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Japan's envoy back in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto answers reporters' questions at Seoul's Kimpo airport after returning from Japan on Aug. 22, 2012. Japan decided to send the envoy back to Seoul following his temporary withdrawal earlier in August in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's visit to a disputed isle in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto departs from Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto is surrounded by reporters before leaving Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto departs from Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Hill praises settlement of N. Korean funds as 'big step'

SEOUL, South Korea - Christopher Hill, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, speaks to reporters at the Kimpo airport in Seoul on April 10. He praised as a ''big step'' the settlement of an impasse over Pyongyang-related funds at a Macao bank.

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Yokota ends three-day visit to S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977, poses with Choi Uyong Yong, head of a group of families of South Korean abductees, as he departs from Kimpo airport near Seoul after a three-day visit to South Korea on May 17.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to boost cooperation over abduction issue

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki arrives at Kimpo airport near Seoul on May 1. Following his meeting with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon later in the day, Shiozaki said that Japan and South Korea agreed to step up cooperation to resolve the issue of Japanese and South Korean nationals abducted by North Korea.

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Japan, S. Korea double Haneda-Kimpo flights

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. President Mineo Yamamoto speaks in a ceremony marking the doubling of the number of round-trip flights between Tokyo's Haneda airport and Seoul's Kimpo airport to eight per day at Haneda airport on Aug. 1.

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Yabunaka arrives in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, keeps mum on arrival at Kimpo airport in Seoul on Feb. 22. Japan, South Korea and the United States are scheduled to hold a preparatory meeting in Seoul on Feb. 23 for the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions to begin in Beijing on Feb. 25.

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4 airlines begin Haneda-Kimpo flights

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara addresses a ceremony to mark the beginning of shuttle flights between Tokyo's Haneda and Seoul's Kimpo airports at Haneda on Nov. 30. Four airlines from Japan and South Korea began providing one round-trip flight each per day between Haneda and Kimpo.

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Painting of soccer player featured on Korean Air jet

SEOUL, South Korea - A painting of a soccer player is seen Feb. 7 on a Korean Air jet at Seoul's Kimpo airport. The painting aims to boost the world event to be co-sponsored by S. Korea and Japan.

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Tokuyama in Seoul to defend WBC title

SEOUL, South Korea - Masamori Tokuyama, the World Boxing Council super flyweight champion, poses for photographers on arrival at Kimpo airport on May 17 for a title fight scheduled for May 20 in Seoul. The 27-year-old Tokuyama, a third-generation pro-Pyongyang Korean living in Japan, will fight South Korea's former champion Cho In Ju.

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N., S. Korea agree to form unified table tennis team

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Culture and Tourism Minister Kim Han Gill speaks at a news conference at Kimpo airport March 14. He said North and South Korea have agreed to form a single unified table tennis team for the world table tennis championship scheduled to start in Osaka on April 23.

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Elderly N. Koreans arrive in Seoul for family reunions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a delegation of elderly North Koreans wave after arriving at South Korea's Kimpo international airport on Feb. 26. The 100-member group arrived in Seoul for three days of reunions with relatives from whom they were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

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N. Korea's Kim Yong Sun arrives in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Yong Sun, a close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, arrives at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport on Sept. 11, leading an eight-member North Korean delegation for talks with South Korean officials on further improving inter-Korean relations. Kim, secretary of the Workers Party of (North) Korea, is the highest-ranking member of the ruling party ever to visit Seoul.

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N. Korean delegates pledge to work for unification

SEOUL, South Korea - A five-member North Korean delegation, headed by Jon Kum Jin, a cabinet counselor, arrives at Seoul's Kimpo international airport at 12:35 p.m. on July 29 for three days of ministerial talks with South Korea aimed at implementing the historic accord signed during the June 13-15 inter-Korean summit. In an arrival statement, members of the North Korean delegation said they have come to Seoul 'with an ardent desire' to realize peace and national unification for the whole of Korea.

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Kono flies into Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono arrives at Seoul's Kimpo airport July 13. Kono, fresh from the Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, will brief South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Lee Joung Binn on the G-8 discussion on North Korea,

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N. Korean acrobatic troupe arrives in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean acrobatic troupe arrives in Seoul on May 29 for a two-week visit to stage a series of performances. The 102-member Pyongyang Acrobatic Art Troupe arrived at Seoul's Kimpo international airport via Beijing at 3:18 p.m. The acrobatic troupe will stage 13 performances between June 3-10 as part of events to be staged in connection with the June 12-14 summit in Pyongyang between South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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N. Korean sports delegation welcomed in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Ri Myong Hun (C), one of the 62-member North Korean sports delegation, receives a bouquet at Seoul's Kimpo international airport Dec. 22. Ri is 235 centimeters high and one of the world's tallest players. North Korean players are scheduled to play a series of friendly basketball matches with South Korean players. The visit is sponsored by South Korea's Hyundai Business Group.

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62-member N. Korean delegation arrives in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - A 62-member North Korean sports delegation arrives at Seoul's Kimpo international airport via Beijing on Dec. 22 on a four-day visit to play a series of friendly basketball matches with South Korean players. The delegation comprises 38 basketball players, 14 circus performers, eight officials and two TV crew members. The visit is sponsored by South Korea's Hyundai Business Group.

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S. Korea attracts record 4 million foreign tourists

Hideo Matsuura (2nd from R), a Japanese national, on Dec. 9 becomes the four millionth foreign tourist to South Korea this year. Matsuura, who arrived at Seoul's Kimpo international airport from Tokyo at noon, was welcomed by representatives from the South Korean tourism industry with a shower of gifts prepared by the Korea National Tourism Organization and Korean Air including a free ticket.

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Japan, S. Korea double Haneda-Kimpo flights

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. President Mineo Yamamoto speaks in a ceremony marking the doubling of the number of round-trip flights between Tokyo's Haneda airport and Seoul's Kimpo airport to eight per day at Haneda airport on Aug. 1. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea agree to boost cooperation over abduction issue

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki arrives at Kimpo airport near Seoul on May 1. Following his meeting with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon later in the day, Shiozaki said that Japan and South Korea agreed to step up cooperation to resolve the issue of Japanese and South Korean nationals abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo)

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N. Korean acrobatic troupe arrives in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean acrobatic troupe arrives in Seoul on May 29 for a two-week visit to stage a series of performances. The 102-member Pyongyang Acrobatic Art Troupe arrived at Seoul's Kimpo international airport via Beijing at 3:18 p.m. The acrobatic troupe will stage 13 performances between June 3-10 as part of events to be staged in connection with the June 12-14 summit in Pyongyang between South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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Japan, S. Korea aim to clinch "comfort women" deal

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida arrives at Seoul's Kimpo airport on Dec. 28, 2015. Kishida is scheduled to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se later in the day on the issue of so-called comfort women. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yokota ends three-day visit to S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977, poses with Choi Song Yong, head of a group of families of South Korean abductees, as he departs from Kimpo airport near Seoul after a three-day visit to South Korea on May 17. (Kyodo)

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Hill praises settlement of N. Korean funds as 'big step'

SEOUL, South Korea - Christopher Hill, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, speaks to reporters at the Kimpo airport in Seoul on April 10. He praised as a ''big step'' the settlement of an impasse over Pyongyang-related funds at a Macao bank. (Kyodo)

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Painting of soccer player featured on Korean Air jet

SEOUL, South Korea - A painting of a soccer player is seen Feb. 7 on a Korean Air jet at Seoul's Kimpo airport. The painting aims to boost the world event to be co-sponsored by S. Korea and Japan.

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Yabunaka arrives in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, keeps mum on arrival at Kimpo airport in Seoul on Feb. 22. Japan, South Korea and the United States are scheduled to hold a preparatory meeting in Seoul on Feb. 23 for the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions to begin in Beijing on Feb. 25. (Kyodo)

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4 airlines begin Haneda-Kimpo flights

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara addresses a ceremony to mark the beginning of shuttle flights between Tokyo's Haneda and Seoul's Kimpo airports at Haneda on Nov. 30. Four airlines from Japan and South Korea began providing one round-trip flight each per day between Haneda and Kimpo. (Kyodo)

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Tokuyama in Seoul to defend WBC title

SEOUL, South Korea - Masamori Tokuyama, the World Boxing Council super flyweight champion, poses for photographers on arrival at Kimpo airport on May 17 for a title fight scheduled for May 20 in Seoul. The 27-year-old Tokuyama, a third-generation pro-Pyongyang Korean living in Japan, will fight South Korea's former champion Cho In Ju.

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N., S. Korea agree to form unified table tennis team

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Culture and Tourism Minister Kim Han Gill speaks at a news conference at Kimpo airport March 14. He said North and South Korea have agreed to form a single unified table tennis team for the world table tennis championship scheduled to start in Osaka on April 23.

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Elderly N. Koreans arrive in Seoul for family reunions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a delegation of elderly North Koreans wave after arriving at South Korea's Kimpo international airport on Feb. 26. The 100-member group arrived in Seoul for three days of reunions with relatives from whom they were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

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Kono flies into Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono arrives at Seoul's Kimpo airport July 13. Kono, fresh from the Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, will brief South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Lee Joung Binn on the G-8 discussion on North Korea,

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(CORRECTED)Longest vehicle-pedestrian wooden bridge completed

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The longest wooden bridge in Japan open to both pedestrians and vehicles has been completed in Kimpo, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. The 42-meter-long, 10-meter-wide bridge will open to traffic Feb. 18. It will retain its position as the longest dual-use bridge only until March next year, when a 55-meter-long wooden bridge is to be completed in the northern prefecture of Akita.

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Longest vehicle-pedestrian bridge completed

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The longest bridge in Japan open to both pedestrians and vehicles has been completed in Kimpo, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. The 42-meter-long, 10-meter-wide bridge will open Feb. 18. It will retain its position as the longest dual-use bridge only until March next year, when a 55-meter-long bridge is to be completed in the northern prefecture of Akita.

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N. Korean sports delegation welcomed in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Ri Myong Hun (C), one of the 62-member North Korean sports delegation, receives a bouquet at Seoul's Kimpo international airport Dec. 22. Ri is 235 centimeters high and one of the world's tallest players. North Korean players are scheduled to play a series of friendly basketball matches with South Korean players. The visit is sponsored by South Korea's Hyundai Business Group.

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62-member N. Korean delegation arrives in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - A 62-member North Korean sports delegation arrives at Seoul's Kimpo international airport via Beijing on Dec. 22 on a four-day visit to play a series of friendly basketball matches with South Korean players. The delegation comprises 38 basketball players, 14 circus performers, eight officials and two TV crew members. The visit is sponsored by South Korea's Hyundai Business Group.

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S. Korea attracts record 4 million foreign tourists

Hideo Matsuura (2nd from R), a Japanese national, on Dec. 9 becomes the four millionth foreign tourist to South Korea this year. Matsuura, who arrived at Seoul's Kimpo international airport from Tokyo at noon, was welcomed by representatives from the South Korean tourism industry with a shower of gifts prepared by the Korea National Tourism Organization and Korean Air including a free ticket. ==Kyodo