SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) announced on July 8 that it will provide $150 million in project financing for a major solar power project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), won by the Korea Western Power Co. This ambitious venture, located in the UAE’s desert region, involves the [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol and United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan adopted a joint statement Thursday, pledging to invest more in each other’s countries and urging North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons. The statement was adopted on the occasion of the Arab leader’s state [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Business leaders of South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday discussed ways to enhance economic cooperation and develop business partnerships in new industries, such as clean energy and ICT, a major business lobby here said. The Korea-UAE Business Forum, held in Seoul during the state visit [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has donated an advanced medical imaging analysis system to a military hospital in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help improve its health care service, the defense ministry said Monday. The artificial intelligence (AI) powered medical image analysis system, jointly developed by the defense and ICT ministries [...]
SEOUL Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have recently held high-level meetings involving bilateral cooperation in the areas of railway construction, infrastructure and energy, officials said Wednesday. Park Sang-woo, South Korea’s land, infrastructure and transport minister, met with Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, minister of energy and infrastructure of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has requested the United Arab Emirates (UAE) correct the faulty posting of North Korea’s national flag as that of South Korea on the website of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Seoul’s foreign ministry said Wednesday. On the COP28′s official website, an image of the [...]
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 28, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – From Wednesday to Thursday, the capital of Qatar will once again become the nerve centre of urban innovation with the opening of a new edition of Smart City Expo Doha, the region’s leading smart city event to be held at Al Bidda Park. Now in its third year, [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) plan to hold their first bilateral aviation talks in four years this week to discuss whether to increase the number of flights connecting the two countries, according to officials Thursday. During the two-day talks from Thursday in Seoul, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have launched formal negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement, Seoul’s industry ministry said Wednesday. The two nations agreed in 2021 to push for forging a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), and the first round of talks kicked off in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United Arab Emirates were staging combined high-tech military drills, Seoul’s Army said Wednesday. The exercise is under way at the Korea Combat Training Center (KCTC), a facility employing cutting-edge technologies for realistic ground drills, in the northeastern county of Inje. The drills mobilized some 2,500 troops to [...]