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President Seo Joo-won of Sudokwon Landfill Site Management Corp.(SLC), 2nd L, joins other heads of state-run corporations in swearing before the parliamentary audit of the National Assembly held on Oct. 14 in Yeouido, Seoul. (Photo: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea)President Seo Joo-won of…
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President Kim Young-jun of the Korea Creative Content Agency (KCCA) (Photo: KCCA)The Korean content industry is growing fast on the back of hallyu (Korean Wave). Figures released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) showed that the content industry saw sales increasing to 119.1 tril…
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Chairman Ban Ki-moon of the National Climate and Environmental Council who is formerly Sec.-Gen of the United Nations. (Photo: NCEC)The government has decided to suspend the operation of up to 27 coal-fired power plants during the December-March period when high-density fine dust usually blankets th…
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Chairman John Hamre of the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS) in Washington D.C. (Photo:CSIS)President John Hamre of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said a pullout of U.S. troops from South Korea would be a disaster for the United States, In his speech mad…
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Gyeongi-do Gov. Lee Jae-myung shakes hands with Incheon Mayor Park Nam-chun after they issued a joint statement following their meeting on Sept. 25. (Photo: Gyeonggi-do provincial govt.)Incheon and Gyeonggi-do have joined forces in to solve the pending issues of the Sudokwon landfill site and to joi…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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A bird’s eye-view of a project to build the planned National AI Computing Center in Haenam, Jeollanam-do. Samsung SDS was the sole bidder of the project. (Photo: Solaseado)Announcing the outcomes of a third bidding on the National AI Computing Cente…
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A staff member with KGC explains about standardized ingredients of the brand G1899 at the Supply Side Global 2025 that took place in Las Vegas, the United States, from Oct. 29 to Oct. 30. (Photos: KGC)Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC) has entered the global …
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CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun poses for a photo with UAE Media Council Chairman Abdullah Al Hamed in the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 9.CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun successfully carried out his global field-oriented management initiative in 2025, …
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Chairman Shin Dong-bin of Lotte Group. (Photos: Lotte Group)Chmn. Shin Dong-bin of Lotte Business Group carried out a sweeping reshuffle, forcing all vice chairmen to resign from their positions. Twenty CEOs, almost one-third of the CEOs of the …
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