SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Angelina Jolie pleaded with the world Friday to come together and stop acting selfishly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Academy Award winning actress spoke virtually in her capacity as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during an international forum hosted by Yonsei University, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential panel on climate on Friday reviewed a set of public proposals to fight fine dust air pollution, including restricting high-emission diesel cars and coal power plants during the upcoming high density season from December to March. The National Council on Climate and Air Quality, chaired by [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is about to set up a national organization to address one of its most pressing issues that is considered new but has been around for hundreds or thousands of years — dust coming from China. South Korea is seeing a clear increase in both the density and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Addressing an audience at an international forum in Beijing yesterday, former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of a new form of city in which work, education and medical services could all be administrated in the convenience of one’s home. As the keynote speaker at the 2018 Future Consensus [...]
POHANG, South Korea, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A ceremony to break ground on a U.N. global education center, initiated by former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, was held at Handong Global University in the country’s southeastern port city of Pohang on Tuesday, with Ban attending. UNAI Korea is building the Ban Ki-moon Global Education [...]
POHANG, South Korea, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A ceremony to break ground for a U.N. global education center, initiated by former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, will be held at Handong Global University in the country’s southeastern port city of Pohang next week, an official at the faculty said Tuesday. “A ground-breaking ceremony for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renounced his presidential ambitions in a surprise decision likely to strengthen the frontrunner position of the current opposition presidential hopeful and frustrate those yearning for change in feud-laden politics. “I will give up my pure aspiration to achieve a change in politics [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – An advisor to former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a potential presidential contender, on Tuesday offered a glimpse into his economic policy that aims to upgrade South Korea’s capitalism model blamed for economic polarization. Speaking to Yonhap News Agency, Kwak Seung-jun, an economics professor at Korea University, put forward three [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – On Friday, the 8th United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, made a final commute to his office at the UN headquarters in New York, and will soon be passing the baton to his successor António Guterres. Although he has yet to say the words out loud, the departing Secretary-General made [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emerged as the most-favored presidential hopeful after he hinted at his willingness to run in next year’s election this week, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey conducted by pollster Real Meter, Ban’s approval rating increased 2.6 percentage points to 23.1 percent this week. [...]