WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, the United States and Japan, together with a U.S. cybersecurity firm, co-hosted a forum this week to help counter threats stemming from North Korea’s overseas dispatch of its information technology (IT) workers, the State Department said Tuesday. The department and the foreign ministries of South Korea and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is taking its homegrown address system abroad, beginning with Mongolia, as part of a broader push to expand its public-sector technology overseas. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Tuesday it had launched the “K-Address Global Academy,” a training program designed to share Korea’s address framework and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will establish a public-private task force this week to help commercialize Atlantic bluefin tuna, whose catch levels off the country’s east coast have soared in recent years due to warming seas, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said on Tuesday. The council, set to launch Tuesday in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will introduce fast-track immigration lanes at Incheon International Airport this week for foreign business executives, in a move aimed at improving the country’s appeal as a hub for international commerce. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Justice said on August 26 that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a conviction against Taiwan’s Everlight Electronics for stealing advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology from Seoul Semiconductor, marking a landmark ruling in the protection of industrial technologies. Seoul Semiconductor said Tuesday that the court recently confirmed earlier guilty verdicts under the nation’s Industrial Technology Protection [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea arrived at the White House this week intent on forging personal chemistry with President Donald J. Trump. Over lunch, they swapped stories about surviving assassination threats; at the cameras, they traded quips about building golf courses and Trump Towers in North Korea. But beneath the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Vice Defense Minister Lee Doo-hee met with Luke Pollard, Britain’s Armed Forces Minister, in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss ways to strengthen security and defense industry cooperation between the two countries, the defense ministry said. Lee expressed gratitude for Britain’s contribution to peace and stability on the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Ministerial-level officials from over 40 countries worldwide have gathered in South Korea this week for a series of meetings for discussions on ways to expand and promote the use of eco-friendly energy sources, Seoul’s industry ministry said Tuesday. The 16th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) meeting kicked off Monday in [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — When President Donald J. Trump sat down with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, it did not take long for old ambitions to resurface. Amid the pleasantries of their first summit since Mr. Lee took office in June, Mr. Trump signaled a desire to revive a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President Donald J. Trump suggested this week that the United States should seek ownership of land hosting American military bases in South Korea, a remark that unsettled officials in Seoul and fueled concerns that his brand of “new expansionism” could complicate the alliance. During a summit with South Korean President [...]