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Chairman Kim Chang-seob of Korea Energy Agency.A poster for 2019 Seoul World Recycling Energy Conference held from Oct. 23 for three days at Coex in Seoul. (Photos: KEA)Chairman Kim Chang-seob of the Korea Energy Agency said in his column entitled “Expectations on the Seoul World Energy Conference…
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Honorary Professor Masao Okonogi of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, top, and Professor Nam Ki-jung of Seoul National University. Both scholars participated in the seminar entitled,” The Current and Future of the Korea-Japan Relations,” held at the Korea Productivity Center in downtown Seoul, rece…
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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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POSCO E&C President Song Chi-young. (Photos: POSCO E&C)POSCO E&C signed a supply contract for carbon reduction equipment to be installed at POSCO’s Pohang Steelworks with ThyssenKrupp Uhde, a German engineering firm specializing in plant…
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CAK Chmn. Han Seung-goo of the Construction Association of Korea, President Lee Han-woo of Hyundai E&C, President Lee Ki-jung of Hanyang University and President Lee Chung-jae of the Korea Construction Economy Institute of Korea pose with Hanyang…
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Chairman Han Man-hee of the International Contractors Association of Korea (ICAK).Amid growing expectations that the construction industry will win Middle East reconstruction projects following the US-Iran agreement, the Overseas Construction Associa…
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Samsung C&T President and CEO Oh Se-chul and Hitachi Energy CEO Andreas Schierenbeck pose with executives following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to expand power grid collaboration in Europe. (Photo: Samsung C&T)Samsung C&T…
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