Park Myung-shik, deputy head of the Office for Public Institutions Relocation at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport  (photo: MOLIT, article by S. Y. Kim)The government’s projects to relocate public entities are proceeding full steam ahead during 2014. Park Myung-shik, dep…

President Park Geun-hye delives a speech at her New Year's news conference at Cheong Wa Dae on Jan. 6 in which she called for prepartions for reunification.(photo on courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae) Heading into her second year in office, South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded that North…

Korean President Park Geun-hye shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Jan. 16 during their summit talks in New Delhi. (photo: Cheong Wa Dae) President Park Geun-hye held summit talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Jan. 16 in New Delhi and agreed to develop…

Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Yoon Sang-jick gives a speech at a ceremony to kick off the new year and open the ministry’s office at Sehong GovernmentComplex on Jan. 2. (photo: MOTIE) Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Yoon Sang-jick said in his New Year’s message his minis…

Prime Minister Chung Hong-won and ministers of the ministries at the Sejong Government Complex pose for pictures during a ceremony to kick off the new year and usher in an era of Sejong administration in the new administrative city of Sejong on Jan. 2. The government held a ceremony to la…

Minister Yoon Sang-jick of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) said his ministry has announced a list of 13 mega-convergence tasks in four fields that will serve as next-generation growth engines of Korean industry. The 4th National Science and Technology Deliberation Committee, pres…

Vice Minister for Trade and Energy Han Jin-hyun, alongside Vice Minister Lee Suk-joon of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, explains the background of electricity rate increases at a news conference at the government complex in downtown Seoul on Nov. 19.(Photo: MOTIE)The government anno…

Staff Director Kim Yo-hwan of the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee I n the 39th National Assembly session, 36 legislative proposals were made in connection with the Automobile Management Law, out of which three cases were approved either in revised form or re…

Im Jeong-bin of the Food Industry Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA)  (Photos: MAFRA) The government‘s ambitious scheme to create a “Foodpolis” in an area of 2.32 million square meters in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, as a national food cluster is …