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…

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…

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…

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,…