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 [...]
GWANGJU, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Most of the Koreans who were forcibly mobilized by Japan to build military facilities on the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific during the 1910-45 colonial era were drafted from the southwestern province of South Jeolla, a civic group said Friday. The group supporting the victims of forced mobilization [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are scrambling to assess the impact of Washington’s decision to add home appliances to a list of derivatives subject to a 50 percent steel tariff, according to industry sources Friday. The U.S. commerce department has published a notice on the Federal Register, [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung spoke by phone with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday, and the two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in defense, arms and critical minerals, his spokesperson said. During the 15-minute call, the first between the two leaders since Lee took office last week, Lee noted [...]