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President Lee Chong-yong of MIRECO.MIRECO has been working hard for economic revival of the closed mine areas in Gangwon Province, like Jeongseon, Taebaek and Wonju and now the company came up with a new project to change the face of Yeongwol, also in the same province.The project was selected by Sp…
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President Lee Jung-hwan of Korea Housing Finance Corp.(HF) speaks at a session of the parliamentary audit on Oct. 15, held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. (Photo: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea)President Lee Jung-hwan of Korea Housing Finance Corp. (HF) said his company set u…
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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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Mirae Asset Securities Vice Chmn. Kim Mi-seob and Heo Sun-ho. (Photo: Mirae Asset Group)Mirae Asset Securities announced on Aug. 12 that it racked up a consolidated net profit of 1,905.2 billion won in the second quarter of this year, becoming the fi…
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Chairman Ham Young-joo of Hana Financial Group. (Photos: Hana Financial Group)Hana Financial Group announced on Aug. 25 that it has opened the Gwangju Seo-gu AI & Digital Job Center in Seo-gu, Jeonnam Gwangju Special City to support the enhanceme…
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President & CEO Park Chang-hoon of Shinhan Card. (Photos: Shinhan Card)Shinhan Card has launched the Kakao Bank Chakbut Shinhan Card, a private label credit card (PLCC) featuring trendy, lifestyle-oriented benefits, in collaboration with Kakao Ba…
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Chairman Lee Jae-keun of KB Financial Group. (Photos: KB Financial Group)KB Financial Group operated the Global Demo Day Program in Singapore for two days from Aug. 26 to 27 in collaboration with the KOSME’s K-Startup Center Singapore to support Kor…
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