SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said it had built an additional ward for a hospital it set up in El Alto, a Bolivian city located at an altitude of 4,150 meters, one of the highest major cities in the world, aimed at supporting the health of local citizens. El [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency has built an infectious disease treatment ward in Fiji, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean that has had difficulties dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic due to limited access to public health services. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on Monday held an [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Guatemala has sent a word of appreciation to the South Korean government for setting a foundation for turning lands devastated by climate change into forests, South Korea’s overseas aid agency said Tuesday. “We’d like to thank the South Korean government for their support in recovering the forests in Alta [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said Tuesday it has provided US$24 million worth of support to help eight developing countries fight the COVID-19 pandemic this year. The support measures were meant to help the countries diagnose, treat and prevent COVID-19, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s state overseas aid agency, announced that it has built vocational training centers for women in Kogon, Qorako’l, and Shofirkon in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara region. These three districts have been known to struggle with high unemployment among women and have also been hit [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency plans to establish two facilities this year to support female victims of wartime gender-based violence in northern Iraq, officials said Thursday. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said that the “One-Stop Support Centers for Women Victimized by War Violence” aim to offer some 93,000 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) announced Wednesday that it will build a solar power plant in Fiji, an island country in the Pacific that is struggling with climate change. The project is a part of KOICA’s renewable energy project that has been taking place in Fiji, the Solomon [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s state overseas aid agency, said Monday that it had signed an agreement with the Cambodia Mine Action Authority and the United Nations Development Programme to clear landmines in the Southeast Asian country. Under terms of the agreement, the KOICA will clear [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said Thursday that it will construct the first intensive care hospital in Iraq by 2023, as part of efforts to help the Middle East country strengthen its medical services. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said that under a support project worth US$39.5 million, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state overseas aid agency said Thursday that it plans to inject US$6.4 million into Vietnam’s efforts to enhance industrial energy efficiency and promote environmentally friendly growth until 2025. The funds will be used to examine about 20 energy-intensive businesses in Vietnam to check their energy efficiency and [...]