SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Thursday it has agreed with Chile to seek broader ties in the supply chain of key minerals crucial to cutting-edge industries, including batteries. The agreement was reached with the Chilean Ministry of Mining during a meeting held in Santiago earlier this week to discuss a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Chile discussed ways Thursday to boost bilateral cooperation on a wider range of economic and industry fields as they marked the 20th anniversary of a bilateral tree trade agreement (FTA), Seoul’s industry ministry said. Some 100 government and corporate officials from the two nations held an [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 100 representatives of companies from 28 countries with 56 investment projects worth US $4 billion and 1,900 potential jobs are participating in the InvestChile 2022 International Forum, which is Chile’s most important event for attracting foreign investment. InvestChile is the government agency responsible for promoting Chile in [...]
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — N2Growth Inc., a global leadership consulting and executive search firm, announced today its expansion to Chile with the appointment of Francisco Larrain as Managing Partner, Jorge Ihnen as Partner, and Cristian Ureta as Executive in Residence. Headquartered in Santiago, Mr. Larrain will be responsible for the firm’s operations in Chile and neighboring countries and will report [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to make it easier for Japanese companies to invest in Chile, the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency InvestChile has launched a new edition of its “How to Invest in Chile” Investor’s Guide in Japanese. Published online, the step-by-step guide is designed to serve as a “roadmap” for companies considering Chile [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — InvestChile, the public agency that promotes foreign investment in the country, wrapped up 2021 with a record US $28 billion in its project portfolio. This is the highest figure to date since the agency was founded five years ago, and represents a 25.1% increase over 2020. The projects [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has adopted tougher measures to block the inflow of the lambda variant of the novel coronavirus as the country is struggling to contain the spread of variant cases amid the fourth wave of the pandemic, according to health authorities. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) [...]
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Toka, the cyber capacity-building company for government agencies, has been selected by the Government of Chile and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to advise Chile on next steps for the country’s national cybersecurity readiness and operational capacity building. Toka will assess current cybersecurity gaps and challenges in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean football star Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), currently at the center of controversy due to his grueling schedule, is expected to play a friendly match against Chile scheduled for 8 p.m tonight. Paulo Bento, the head coach of South Korea national team, speaking to reporters at a press conference [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean consortium made up of steelmaker POSCO and battery maker Samsung SDI Co. will invest 57.5 billion won (US$54 million) to build a cathode plant in Chile by 2021, POSCO said Sunday. The POSCO-Samsung SDI consortium beat 12 companies from seven countries to secure the Chilean project, [...]