SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung and the president of the United Arab Emirates spoke by phone Tuesday and agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation in advanced technologies and the energy and defense industries, the presidential office said. In their first phone conversation since Lee took office last month, Lee told President [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior Air Force officials from South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday signed a letter of intent for comprehensive cooperation on the South’s homegrown fighter jets, the South Korean Air Force said. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Lee Young-su and Maj. Gen. Rashed Mohammed A. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hanwha Group has held discussions with Edge Group, a defense conglomerate based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to explore strategic cooperation in defense, aerospace and maritime industries, according to the group’s defense arm Tuesday. Kim Dong-kwan, vice chairman of Hanwha Group, met with Faisal Al Bannai, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will run a country booth at a defense exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week, the state arms procurement agency said Monday, as the country seeks to boost its overseas arms exports. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) will set up the booth at the [...]
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 [...]