SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will grant special stay permits for Myanmar nationals on humanitarian grounds starting next Monday, amid mounting violence there following a coup last month, the justice ministry said Friday. The ministry said the measures will cover approximately 25,000 Myanmar nationals who are staying in South Korea, until conditions [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Christian community has expressed concerns about political instability in Myanmar in connection with the recent coup and vowed for solidarity with the pro-democracy movement there. “The Catholic Church in Korea expresses her deepest concern about the outbreak of violence and the subsequent bloodshed in our neighboring country, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly of South Korea has passed a parliamentary resolution denouncing the recent military coup in Myanmar, calling it a “serious defiance of democracy.” The resolution, approved with bipartisan support in the National Assembly’s full-floor voting session held Friday, urged Myanmar’s military leaders to immediately release detained civilian [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Movements are stirring in South Korea in protest to the recent coup d’etat in Myanmar. The Burmese Youth Association in South Korea held press conferences in five locations across Seoul on Sunday, including the Myanmarese Embassy and downtown, calling upon the Myanmar’s military authorities to abort the coup and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it plans to hold a virtual meeting with Myanmar to share ways to expand their economic ties and overcome economic jitters sparked by the new coronavirus pandemic. Industry Minister Sung Yun-mo plans to meet his Myanmar counterpart, Than Myint, later in the day through a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run research institute has been selected as the main operator of the country’s official development assistance (ODA) project, which could also pave the way for the nation’s LED lighting companies to expand their presence in Myanmar. The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) announced on Thursday that it was [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO International Corp., a South Korean general trading company, is stepping up to support local farmers and the food value chain through cooperation between the public and private sectors. The affiliate of South Korean steel giant POSCO signed a memorandum of understanding with the Rural Development Administration (RDA) on [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co. and SK Trading International Co. have donated 4,000 Korean-made coronavirus test kits to Myanmar, the two firms’ parent company said Sunday. The test kits worth about US$50,000 arrived in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon on Saturday, said SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s biggest refiner by sales. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO International Corp., a South Korean general trading company, said Monday that it has discovered a prospective gas field off the western coast of Myanmar. A drill stem test in the Mahar exploration well in Block A-3 in December showed that the area is expected to produce about 38 [...]
MADRID, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Inclusive Intercultural Education for Social Cohesion” project of Kachinland College in Myanmar was selected as one of ten global grassroots initiatives to receive the prestigious Intercultural Innovation Award from the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group, during an Awards Ceremony held last night at [...]