SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LS Cable & System Ltd., the world’s third-largest wire and cable maker by sales, said Monday it has obtained a 400 billion-won (US$305 million) submarine cable supply deal from Sweden. LS Cable will supply extra-high voltage submarine cable systems to an offshore wind farm being built in the North [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Over a dozen Swedish companies doing business in South Korea launched a “green” alliance Thursday to commit themselves to a set of carbon-reducing goals in support of Seoul’s green policy drive. The South Korea-Sweden Green Transition Alliance brings together 13 Swedish companies, including furniture giant IKEA, to take part [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden and LONDON, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Swedish public pension fund Första AP-fonden (AP1) will add to its asset manager selection capabilities by adopting asset manager monitoring capabilities from eVestment, a global leader in institutional investment data and analytics. As pensions around the world search for investment returns at acceptable levels of risk, data [...]
Stockholm, Sweden, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Sinch AB will publish its 2019 second quarter interim report on Friday, July 19, 2019, at 07:30 AM CET. You are invited to participate in a conference call at 09:00 AM CET on the same day. Oscar Werner, CEO, and Roshan Saldanha, CFO, will present the report and review [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first lady Kim Jung-sook, accompanying President Moon Jae-in on a state visit to Sweden, met with Swedish men on paternal leave, known as “latte papas.” The term first originated in Sweden, famous for men’s active participation in childcare. Kim participated in an event held in Stockholm’s Humlegården [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold various literary events featuring noted Korean authors during a Swedish book fair this autumn as part of efforts to enhance the international status of Korean literature, organizers said Tuesday. Kim Sa-in, director of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, said during a meeting with reporters [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The role of Sweden is in the spotlight with the United States and North Korea meeting in the Scandinavian country to have working-level discussions for the second U.S.-North Korea Summit to be held next month. Steven Biegun, U.S. special envoy for North Korea negotiations and Choe Son-hui, North Korean [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the launch of futures based on the recently launched OMXS30 ESG Responsible index (OMXS30ESG). The product is the first exchange listed and ESG compliant index future in the world. “In recent years we have seen institutions increase efforts to integrate sustainability into their [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Embassy in Sweden revealed yesterday that it had held an event on September 24 at a conference center in Stockholm during which Lee Jeong-kyu, the ambassador of Korea to Sweden, expressed gratitude to Sweden for its participation in the Korean War. The event was held in time [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Sweden are set to launch a joint design exhibition this week, organizers said Thursday, as part of their efforts to expand cultural exchanges between the two countries. Sweden Korea Young Design Week will begin its 10-day run at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in eastern Seoul on [...]