SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The trade minister met with the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on Thursday and discussed ways to strengthen the countries’ economic partnership amid growing uncertainties in the global trade environment, officials said. Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo met with Amb. Koichi Mizushima in Seoul earlier in the day, as President [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will work to establish a new “mutually beneficial” strategic partnership with the United States through bilateral trade negotiations, Seoul’s chief trade negotiator said Friday, as he departed for Washington for tariff talks ahead of the expiration of a 90-day pause on U.S. reciprocal tariffs. “Based on the [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will make efforts to prevent rising North Korean risks from hampering foreign investment in the country following North Korea’s latest nuclear test and rocket launch, the trade minister said Thursday. After carrying out an alleged hydrogen bomb test in early January, Pyongyang defiantly launched a long-range rocket [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s trade minister met Friday with members of the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK) to exchange views on how best to improve business investment conditions in the country. At the breakfast meeting in Seoul, outlined to European businessmen measures taken by the government to ease restrictions [...]