President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Chairman Kim Ki-mun of Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (K-BIZ) prior to a luncheon with heads of economic organizations at Cheong Wa Dae on Oct.4. (Photo on the courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae website)President Moon Jae-in had a luncheon with heads of …

Lawmakers with the National Assembly Environment & Labor Committee and SME businessmen with the Korea Federation of SMEs (KBIZ) gesture as they attended a meeting on labor policies on Sept. 25. (Photo:KBIZ)The Korea Federation of SMEs (KBIZ) urged the government to delay the implementation of th…

Administrator Lee Seung-woo of the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) gives a speech at a ceremony to mark the 2019 anniversary of World Standards Day at EL Tower in Seoul on Oct. 17.Administrator Lee Seung-woo of the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) called for those …

Commissioner Park Won-joo of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) (Photo: KIPO)Of late, Korea became the seventh country in the world to register a 2 millionth patent following the United States, France, the UK, Japan, Germany and China. But Korea has dull dynamics of the IP ecosystem due …

Director General Nam Tae-heon of the Food Industry Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA). (Photo: MAFRA)The value of the food manufacturing industry is estimated at 89 trillion won as of 2017, accounting for 6 percent of the nation’s manufacturing industry. Th…

Chairman and President Chung Yang-ho of Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) gestures with other participants as they attended an inaugural meeting of the managing director (MD)-program director (PD) strategic consultation committee at the Korea Technology Center in Gangnam-gu,…

President Lee Hak-soo of Korea Water Resources Corp.(K-water),L, is joined by other heads of state-run corporations in swearing at a session of the parliamentary audit on Oct. 14 at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. (Photo: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea)President Lee Hak-soo of K…

President Lee Kang-rae of Korea Expressway Corp. (KEC) delivers a speech at an opening ceremony for a garden exhibition held at KEC Jeonju Arboretum. (Photos: KEC)A garden exhibition, hosted by Korea Expressway Corp. (KEC) at KEC Jeonju Arboretum from Sept. 20 to Sept. 28, took place under the theme…

A view of the newly introduced high-speed train EMU-250, on display at Yongsan Station,Seoul. (Photos: KORAIL)President Sohn Byeong-suk of Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL).A high-speed train will be introduced on the route connecting Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul and Shinhaeundae Station in Busan. The…