SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have changed the name of a think tank designed to analyze affairs with South Korea, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as its leader Kim Jong-un has bolstered animosity toward the South. North Korea disclosed the entity named the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies for [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Tuesday it will create a space policy-oriented think tank in a move to bolster its space development ambitions. The country has recently ramped up its space program, with its first homegrown space rocket set for a launch in October and a lunar orbiter program [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been making efforts to classify indigenous species of biological resources as the country joins the global fray to secure sovereignty over them, a state-run think tank said Tuesday. Classification on what kinds of animals and plants inhabit the country is a vital step toward its endeavor [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea should enhance cooperation with India, a state think tank said Tuesday, amid Chinese retaliation against Seoul over the planned deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. India has already became the world’s seventh-largest economy and is on track to become No. 5 by 2020, according to South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Escaping from the bondage of poverty is becoming harder than ever in Korea. The income ladder stands still for households consisting of those who have no ability to work like the elderly and handicapped, or those who do temporary manual jobs, with little possibility of upward mobility. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – On January 22, the Korea Development Institute (KDI) stated that it ranked 9th in a survey of global think tanks carried out by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP), an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania. If the United States is included, it ranks 49th. The TTCSP, [...]