SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has formally confirmed its ratification of a U.N. agreement on the sustainable use of marine biological diversity, becoming the first East Asian country to do so, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. South Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Hwang Joon-kook deposited an instrument of the ratification for the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A fifth round of international negotiations for a binding plastic regulation agreement has ended without a deal, with delegates agreeing to resume talks at a later date. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution met in the southeastern city of Busan from last Monday until Sunday to try [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has signed a U.N. agreement on promoting the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, joining the multilateral initiative to better protect the sea and marine ecosystem, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. South Korea became the 83rd signatory to the Agreement [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned North Korea’s continued violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, but reiterated his commitment to diplomacy to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Biden made the remarks in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly as a recent summit between North [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol met with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday (local time) and expressed his wish to continue working with the global body to deter North Korea’s provocations and improve its human rights conditions, his office said. The two met on the sidelines of the U.N. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol embarked on a five-day visit to New York on Monday to attend the U.N. General Assembly and meet with world leaders amid signs of growing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia. During the annual U.N. gathering, Yoon is also set to hold a flurry [...]
United Nations, New York, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed closed the inaugural Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) conference this week, calling on partners in government, industry, and philanthropy to contribute toward a vision of sustainable, equitable growth; and to accelerate business opportunities on the African continent. “The solidarity we’re looking [...]
United Nations, New York, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — At the start of the high-level opening week of the 77th UN General Assembly, representatives from UN Member States and development agencies joined CEOs and CFOs from UN Global Compact participant companies at this year’s Private Sector Forum (PSF) to call for increased investment in renewable energy to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinan County’s Purple Island, 400 kilometers south of Seoul, have been designated by the United Nations as one of the world’s best tourism villages. The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) held the Best Tourism Village award ceremony at the general assembly held in Madrid on Dec. 2. Among 170 applications from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS flew to New York on Saturday to attend a United Nations event as a special presidential envoy. The chart-topping group is scheduled to attend the opening ceremony for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moment of the Decade of Action event in New York on Monday (U.S. [...]