SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in called on Japan on Monday to withdraw its recent export control against South Korean firms, describing it as an attempt to limit trade for a political purpose. Breaking his strategic reticence on the sensitive issue, Moon said his administration will first make “calm” efforts to resolve [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A compilation of President Moon Jae-in’s major speeches over the past year, translated in English, was made public Tuesday. The 288-page anthology, titled “Selected Speeches, President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea,” offers transcripts of 56 speeches chosen from among 305 addresses and remarks made by the president [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The ‘Moon Jae-in Goods’ snowball, introduced to celebrate the second year of South Korea’s Moon Jae-in administration, sold out only 35 minutes after its release. The ruling Democratic Party (DP) introduced the snowballs that come in two different versions containing a miniature-sized figurine of President Moon through its official [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean adults positively evaluate the Moon Jae-in government’s policy of making peace with North Korea, a poll showed Wednesday. Realmeter’s survey of 505 people older than 19 nationwide found that 52.2 percent gave a positive assessment of Moon’s peace policy for the Korean Peninsula. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is about to set up a national organization to address one of its most pressing issues that is considered new but has been around for hundreds or thousands of years — dust coming from China. South Korea is seeing a clear increase in both the density and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesian workers who were victims of a Korean business leader fleeing Indonesia without paying overdue wages sent a thank-you letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday for helping them out. About 300 employees of SKB, a sewing company in Bekashi, West Java, went to Jakarta to hold [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that he plans to stick to his economic policies that are being criticized amid the slowing economy and tepid job creation, citing the need for sustainable growth. The president said that the government will make up for shortfalls if needed but that it will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Blue House has released photos of the newborn puppies of ‘Gomi’, a Pungsan dog owned by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, on Sunday. The Blue House tweeted that Gomi gave birth to her puppies on November 9, and posted pictures of President Moon and First Lady Kim Jeong-sook [...]
PORT MORESBY, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Sunday proposed the creation of an Asia-Pacific fund for digital economy to help promote regional cooperation and build capacity in developing countries. In an address to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Papua New Guinea, Moon also presented his economic and social [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two dogs given to President Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a gift after their third summit in Pyongyang in September has given birth to puppies, Moon said Monday. The North’s leader gifted the pair of Pungsan-breed dogs, one male named Songkang, and [...]