LONDON, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Britain will adopt the “Downing Street Accord” on the occasion of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit to London to upgrade their relations to a “global strategic partnership” and deepen cooperation in the security and economic realms, the presidential office said Monday. The accord, which will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Poland will expand the number of weekly flights between the countries to support their strengthening ties in the defense industry and plant construction, the transport ministry said Monday. Seoul and Warsaw have agreed to increase the number of weekly flights to seven from five on routes [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Mongolia launched a joint committee Monday for cooperation in the supply of rare metals and other critical minerals, Seoul officials said. The two sides also began a project to establish a joint center for partnerships on rare metals as part of South Korea’s official development assistance [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida voiced hope for closer cooperation between their countries as they met on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Thursday. The two leaders met at a hotel in San Francisco, marking their seventh [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung has been awarded the honor of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to the strengthening of economic and cultural ties between South Korea and Britain, the company said Wednesday. Chung received the medal from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The finance ministries of South Korea and China held an inaugural meeting on bilateral economic exchanges Tuesday to discuss ways to boost cooperation on various industrial and economic issues involving major private companies, officials said. The inaugural South Korea-China economic cooperation and exchange meeting was held in the Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it has launched a campaign to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo at this week’s summit gathering of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. Hyundai said it will mobilize custom-designed units of its electrified Ioniq 5, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea’s spy agency said Monday it has identified 38 fake Korean-language news websites suspected of being operated by Chinese companies. Two Chinese public relations companies — Haimai and Haixun — have created fake Korean news websites, posting articles of local news outlets without consent and posing as members [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday renewed its calls for dissolving the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC), claiming that a plan by South Korea and UNC member states to hold the inaugural defense ministerial meeting this week is a “dangerous” scheme to spark a “new war of aggression” against the North. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Sunday to launch a real-time missile warning data sharing system next month to better detect and assess North Korea’s ballistic missile launches, Seoul’s defense ministry said. The defense chiefs of the three nations reached the agreement during their meeting on the [...]