SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Industry Minister Bang Moon-kyu met with a senior Greek official Thursday and discussed ways to boost bilateral cooperation on the eco-friendly shipbuilding industry and the overall economy, the industry ministry said. During a meeting with Kostas Fragogiannis, Greece’s deputy foreign and economic minister, Bang called for joint [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Greece agreed Tuesday to jointly develop technologies to renovate existing ships into eco-friendly ones in response to tougher emission regulations in the global shipping sector, Seoul’s industry ministry said. Under the agreement, the two nations will carry out projects to develop technologies for the designing of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Greece placed the largest ship orders in South Korea this year, remaining a buttress for the nation’s shipbuilding industry, data showed Sunday. Greek shipowners have placed orders for 52 ships totaling 2.05 million compensated gross ton (CGT) from Korean shipyards so far this year, according to global market researcher [...]
TAEBEK, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The two locations where the epic Korean drama ‘Descendants of the Sun‘ was filmed, Taebek and Zákinthos (Greece), have entered an agreement for cooperation and exchange. Taebaek announced the joyous occasion after inking the agreement with the city of Zákinthos. ‘Descendants of the Sun’, a Korean drama which gave viewers all [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors turned net buyers of Korean stocks in February, snapping a two-month selling streak on the back of easing uncertainties in Greece and the U.S. central bank’s flexible stance on an interest rate hike, the Seoul bourse operator said Monday. Offshore traders bought a net 1.32 trillion won [...]