Winners of the June 13 local polls are (clockwise, from far left) Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, elected for a third term,; Busan Mayor-elect Oh Geo-don,; Gwangju Mayor-elect Lee Yong-sup,; Jeollanam-do Gov.-elect Kim Young-rok,; Chungcheongbuk-do Gov. Lee Si-jong, reelected for a third term,; Chungcheo…

President Park Doo-yong of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) speaks at the KOSHA’s meeting with metropolitan governments on ways to halve occupational fatalities at the Adria Hotel in Daejeon on June 22. (Photos: KOSHA)The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) and the Korea …

Chairman Park Yong-maan of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(KCCI) hands the Regulatory Reform Tube over to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Strategy Kim Dong-yeon, L, at a meeting on June 15 at the Government Complex Building in Sejong-ro, Seoul. (Photo: MOSF)Chairman Park…

Chairman Choi Jong-gu of the Financial Services Commission(FSC) (Photo: FSC)The government will issue a license to another reinsurance firm in Korea to rejuvenate the reinsurance industry, which has been so far dominated by Korea Reinsurance Co. (Korean Re).As a first step for the government measure…

Chairman Lee Sang-jin of the Korean Standards Association (KSA) speaks at the 2018 Global Industrial Innovation Conference at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul on June 21. (Photo: KSA)The 2018 Global Industrial Innovation Conference brought together about 500 Korean and foreign inn…

President Lee Chae-kwang of the Korea Housing and Urban Guarantee Corp.(HUG). (Photo: HUG)President Lee Chae-kwang said Korea Housing and Urban Guarantee Corp.(HUG) should be concerned mainly with numbers not so much with adjectives in its operation, which he mastered while serving for 24 years in t…

국민연금공단 김성주 이사장은 6월 17일부터 6월 24일까지 6박 8일 일정으로 지속가능한 연금제도와 스튜어드십 코드 도입, 책임투자 확대 등 기금운용이 나아가야 할 방향을 모색하기 위해 영국 등  4개국 9개 기관을 방문한다.김성주 이사장은 영국 런던에서 에스더 맥베이(Esther McVey) 영국 노동연금부 장관을 만…

국토교통부 장관 김현미국토교통부(장관 김현미)는 ’18년 5월 23일부터 3일간 “교통안전과 보안”을 주제로 진행되고 있는 경제협력개발기구(OECD) 국제교통포럼(ITF: International Transport Forum) 교통장관회의에서 우리나라가 향후 1년간 동 기구의 의장국을 수임했다고 밝혔다.국제교통포럼(ITF)은 OECD 내에서 교…

산업통상자원부(장관 백운규)와 특허청(청장 성윤모)은 산업단지 입주기업간 협업 활성화를 위해 올해 신규 도입한 ‘프로젝트 알앤디’(Project-R&D)’ 과제를 공동 지원한다. ‘프로젝트 알랜디’ 과제는 공동 해외진출, 사업 다각화 등 다수 기업이 참여하는 프로젝트를 해결하기 위해 네트워킹, 특허, 연구개…