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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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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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Nongshim CEO Jo Yong-chul makes a presentation on the success of Shin Ramyun at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on May 13. (Photos: Nongshim)Nongshim announced on May 13 that cumulative sales of Shin Ramyun, which marks its 40th anniversary this year, surpassed…
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Chairman Cho Won-tae of Hanjin Group. Korean Air has gotten a lot of “love” from financial markets, in particular for the brainchild of the merger, Chairman Cho Won-tae of Hanjin Group. The historic M&A with Asiana Airlines is evaluat…
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A view of Samsung Electronics Suwon Digital City. (Photo: Samsung Electronics)Labor and management of Samsung Electronics reached a tentative agreement on incentives at the last minute on May 20, averting a strike one and half hours before the deadli…
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Hyundai Motor Vice Chair Chang Jae-hoon (right) poses for a photo with Vice Minister of Trade, Industry and Resources Moon Shin-hak at the 23rd Automobile Day Event on May 12.Hyundai Motor Group Vice Chair Chang Jae-hoon won the Gold Tower Order of I…
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