SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Vice finance ministers of South Korea, China, Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to improve a currency swap mechanism as part of efforts to boost overall financial cooperation, Seoul’s finance ministry said Friday. The consensus was reached during the two-day regular meeting of the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held a multinational cybersecurity exercise with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other nations to improve their coordinated responses against cyberthreats, the defense ministry said Friday. A total of 17 members of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) joined the Cyber Training and [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of individuals from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries who stayed in South Korea last year marked a positive year to year growth, data showed Wednesday. According to the ASEAN-Korea Centre, the number of people belonging to ASEAN’s ten member countries who stayed in Asia’s fourth-largest [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Pulse Secure, the leading provider of software-defined Secure Access solutions, is pleased to announce its new partnership with Trainocate to deliver Pulse Secure Authorized Training courses across ASEAN. “Our channel has been instrumental to Pulse Secure’s growth as a Zero Trust secure access solution provider,” said Gary Gee, Pulse Secure [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean automakers saw their sales increase in six member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over the past three years helped by strong demand in Vietnam, industry data showed Wednesday. They sold a combined 184,595 vehicles in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion industry experts and executives from South Korea and 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off a joint fashion festival in Busan on Friday ahead of the southern port city’s hosting of the Korea-ASEAN special summit next week. The festival, titled Korea-ASEAN Fashion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — New business trends become widespread as they are introduced from all corners of the globe each year. Recently in the U.S. and the South American country of Brazil, the idea of “sheconomy” has been gaining prominence. “Sheconomy” is a type of marketing strategy that targets women from product planning [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural exports to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) topped US$680 million in the first half of this year, making the bloc the biggest importer of South Korean farm goods, data showed Sunday. It was the first time that ASEAN had replaced Japan as the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Commenting about his recent official visits to India and Singapore between July 8 and 13, President Moon Jae-in said that the “New Southern Policy” that was first drawn up last year had finally gotten off the ground. The president went onto say that the policy is not merely an [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The “New Southern Policy Initiative” ambitiously being pursued by the South Korean government would require heightened levels of engagement with ASEAN member states. However, a recent study has showed that the understanding of ASEAN countries by South Koreans was very low. This is according to a study titled “Koreans’ [...]