SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday he feels heavy responsibility over the detention of South Korean workers at a battery plant construction site in Georgia by U.S. immigration authorities, offering his deep sympathy. Lee made the remarks at a Cabinet meeting as more than 300 South Koreans have been [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung plans to meet Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation and Microsoft Corp. co-founder, in Seoul on Thursday, the presidential office said Wednesday. Gates, who has spearheaded initiatives on climate change, poverty reduction and global health through the foundation, is visiting South Korea to reportedly [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung has met with a group of creatives behind the smash-hit Netflix animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” and pledged to cultivate South Korea’s cultural sector into one of the country’s core industries. Appearing on Arirang TV’s prerecorded program “K-Pop: The Next Chapter” aired Wednesday, Lee sat [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidential office on Wednesday expressed regret over the latest criticism of President Lee Jae Myung’s recent peace overtures by the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying that her remarks “distort” Seoul’s sincere efforts to restore inter-Korean trust. Earlier in the day, the North’s state media reported [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung on Friday received letters of appointment from 80 selected individuals in a symbolic ceremony marking his election victory, pledging to carry out their mandates for a better country. The special event, dubbed the “People’s Mandate Ceremony,” was held on the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung nominated new education and gender equality ministers as well as the heads of the nation’s corporate watchdog and financial regulator Wednesday, the presidential office said. Choi Kyo-jin, superintendent of the Sejong City Office of Education, was named education minister, presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung visited Busan on Friday and pledged to swiftly relocate the oceans ministry to the southeastern port city. The relocation of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries from the central city of Sejong was one of Lee’s campaign pledges. “I will swiftly execute the relocation of [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung met with Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Thursday, the presidential office said, expected to discuss a range of trade and investment issues amid trade negotiations between Seoul and Washington. “President Lee continued his meeting with business leaders this week, following last week’s engagement,” [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday agreed to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries, the presidential office said. In the phone call, the two leaders assessed the close economic cooperation in areas such as trade and investment, and pledged to [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung has tapped a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party as land minister and the head of a travel platform as culture minister, the presidential office said Friday, completing the nomination of all 19 members of his first Cabinet. Rep. Kim Yun-duk of the ruling Democratic [...]