Kim Young-hwan, director general of the FTA Information & Business Center How can Korean companies, particularly SMEs, make the most of the preferential tariff treatment of free trade agreements, including the Korea-U.S. FTA? “Company CEOs will have to pay more attention to post verificat…

KOTRA President Oh Young-ho gives his commemorative speech at a ceremony to mark the 51st anniversary at the KOTRA headquarters in Seoul on June 20.  [   Photos on courtesy of KOTRA]  Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) President Oh Young-ho delivered his commemorati…

A view of Chao Praya River that cuts through downtown Bangkok, Thailand,  one of the major rivers to be included in the Thai government’s rivers management project, for which the Korean consortium led by K-water has been named the priority bidder on two of the nine segments of t…

GS Group Chairman Hur Chang-soo  GS Group Chairman Hur Chang-soo, chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries, has set the ‘creative economy’ as its future vision in accordance with the Park Geun-hye government initiative for building the creative economy.   While presiding ove…

  Chung Ki-sun, the eldest son of Rep. Chung Mong-joon of the Saenuri Party and HHI’s largest shareholder. [Photo on courtesy of HHI]   Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will likely be awarded an order for 10 super large-sized containerships, each capable of carrying more…

CJ Cheiljedang Headquarters in Ssanglim-dong, downtown Seoul.  CJ Group is launching a program to bring back its female employees who put their careers on hold for maternity leave, childcare, and other reasons in keeping with the government’s initiative to create more jobs. The group ann…

 LS-Nikko Copper Chairman Koo Cha-myung  is the first Korean and third Asian winner of  the prestigious Ankh Award.  [Photos on courtesy of  LS-Nikko Copper]     LS-Nikko Copper Chairman Koo Cha-myung was given the Copper Club’s Ankh Award…

POSCO will hold an event for communication and harmony to take down the wall and create a new global corporate culture, the steelmaker said recently. Last year, the steel giant held such an event in September made up of various group events including balloon flying, rope jumping, group races, b…

Chairman Cho Suk-rae of the Korea-Japan Economic Association speaks at the  45th Korea-Japan Economic Association Meeting in Seoul.  Roughly 300 political and business leaders from Korea and Japan participated in the 45th Korea-Japan Economic Association Meeting in Seoul from April 2…