SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung on Monday called for South Korea and Japan to join hands for a better future, casting the two neighbors as important partners bound to work together amid a rapidly changing global environment. Lee made the remark in a congratulatory video message at the start of an [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung departed for Canada on Monday to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit, marking his diplomatic debut on the global stage just less than two weeks into his term in office. Lee embarked on a three-day trip to Alberta to attend an expanded G7 summit session [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a global leader in display panel manufacturing, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States against Chinese firm Tianma Microelectronics Co. to protect its intellectual property, according to industry sources Monday. According to the sources, the South Korean company filed the suit Friday (U.S. [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, better known as KOTRA, said Monday it has launched a seminar in Malaysia to support South Korean companies in making local investments and joining global semiconductor supply chains. KOTRA is co-hosting the two-day event in Kuala Lumpur starting Monday in collaboration with the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plan to dispatch mobile units to border areas to prevent activists from sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border, the unification ministry said Monday after a pan-government meeting to discuss ways to curb “illegal” leaflet campaigns. The move came as President Lee Jae-myung ordered measures Saturday to prevent [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korea-developed carbon emissions map system will be introduced in Uzbekistan as part of an urban planning pilot project supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Seoul’s land ministry said Monday. The system, supported by the ministry’s research and development program, was developed by Seoul-based geographic information system [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A senior U.S. diplomat reaffirmed Friday the alliance with South Korea remains a “linchpin of security” in the Indo-Pacific, in the first visit by a U.S. official since the launch of the government of President Lee Jae-myung. Sean O’Neill, senior bureau official of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of [...]
BRUSSELS, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung is set to meet with top European Union (EU) officials during the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada, the EU office said Friday, which would mark his first diplomatic engagement with EU leadership since taking office. Lee will meet with European Commission President Ursula [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is stepping up anti-American indoctrination of students on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, state media showed Friday. “Education on anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism is being solidly carried out at all basic education units in Pyongyang, tailored to the emotional [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government conducted an emergency review of the country’s oil and gas supplies Friday amid escalating tensions in the Middle East following Israel’s strike on Iran, the industry ministry said, adding the country faces no immediate problem. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held the meeting with officials [...]