SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday it has donated eight Ioniq 5 electric vehicle (EV) units and EV-charging infrastructure funds to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as part of its strategic partnership with the humanitarian aid agency. A hand-over ceremony was held at WFP’s fleet center in Dubai [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, UN Agency Heads and other dignitaries met survivors and advocates for ending violence against children in New York on Sunday night (22 September). They are in New York for the UN General Assembly, where world leaders have come together for [...]
BANGKOK, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean food is garnering positive responses at the United Nations office cafeteria in Bangkok, Thailand, marking the first time Korean cuisine has been featured in a cafeteria of a major international organization. Since September of last year, the cafeteria at the UN Conference Center (UNCC) in Bangkok has been offering Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has attended a United Nations peacekeeping ministerial forum and pledged its support for the global community’s commitment to strengthen peacekeeping operations (PKO), Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. The South Korean delegation led by Kweon Ki-hwan, the deputy foreign minister for multilateral and global affairs, attended the two-day [...]
Over 130 companies have already joined the new UN Global Compact Forward Faster initiative to accelerate private sector progress on the Sustainable Development Goals New York, United States of America, Sept. 18, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – The United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, launched Forward Faster today to accelerate private sector action at [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in used his last U.N. General Assembly speech this week for a bid to revive hopes of a declaration to formally end the Korean War. In an unusual move, he publicly mentioned the names of signatories to the envisioned declaration, as he addressed the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it has received approval from the U.N. climate change body for its calculation standards of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for residential buildings. On Aug. 11, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved the CO2 emissions standards for residential buildings in South Korea [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, will partner in the implementation of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO) said Wednesday. The South Korean steel company has been working on a project since 2014 to build high-quality houses using its own steel house method and to provide sustainable life for residents in the cities where POSCO operates. [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Wednesday they won a deal to supply a total of 1,000 vehicles to the United Nations’ organizations over the next five years. Hyundai and Kia, which together form the world’s fifth-biggest carmaker by sales, won the bid to export [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign Affairs Minister Kang made an appearance on YTN News on September 13, in which she discussed a number of topics ranging from the recently declared U.N. sanctions on North Korea to a bizarre controversy over her crop of silver hair. Kang expounded on the government’s position regarding the announced [...]