SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in promised additional support Wednesday for companies that create new quality jobs while vowing to implement his pledge to create at least 810,000 new jobs in the public sector. “First, (the government) will work to create new jobs in areas related to public safety, security and social [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors to this year’s star-studded Busan International Film Festival had the pleasant surprise of meeting none other than President Moon Jae-in over the weekend, as the commander-in-chief paid an unexpected visit to the renowned annual film festival in the port city on the south coast of South Korea. Moon’s surprise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “The best safeguard against dozing off at the wheel is rest. If you feel tired, I urge you to take a rest at a rest area or a driving shelter,” said President Moon on October 2nd. “Eight out of ten people travel to their hometowns by car. The most dangerous [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet here this week, Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, for bilateral talks expected to focus on ways to deal with provocative North Korea. The two leaders will hold a bilateral summit here on Thursday, [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Yonhap) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set for a series of bilateral talks with other global leaders in New York on Tuesday, following his participation in the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. The new South Korean leader will begin the second day of his four-day visit here with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae In said Friday he will halt operations at aged coal power plants on a regular basis during spring while trying to move up their permanent shutdown in an effort to reduce fine dust pollution. Speaking at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of a 2007 oil [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in ordered thorough implementation of the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea after the communist nation defiantly carried out yet another ballistic missile launch, the presidential spokesman said Friday. Moon issued the order during a National Security Council meeting he presided over after the North [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in ruled out the possibility of redeploying U.S. nuclear weapons in the country Thursday, CNN reported. In an interview with the U.S. cable news channel, he warned it could lead to a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia. “I do not agree that South Korea [...]
VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Thursday proposed expanding economic cooperation between South Korea and Russia in a wide range of areas, including energy, infrastructure and agriculture, noting those projects might set an example of co-prosperity for isolated North Korea. In his address to the third Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed a request from his South Korean counterpart Wednesday to cut off oil shipments to energy-starved North Korea as a way of punishing the communist state for its latest nuclear test and also forcing it out to the dialogue table. South Korean President Moon Jae-in [...]