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The following are excerpts of a written interview between NewsWorld and Rep. Sim Hag-bong, of the Saenuri Party¡¯s Gumi-gap, who serves as a member of the National Assembly Trade, Industry and Energy Committee, in which he spoke of his legislative activities and political philosophy and conviction¡¦
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Rep. Kim Hee-jung of the ruling Saenuri Party hosted a symposium on how to address the additional emotional injuries inflicted on sexual abuse victims at the National Assembly Parliamentarians¡¯ Hall on Sept. 29.Bae Sung-min, director of the Incheon Sunflower Center; Kong Jung-shik, director of Kore¡¦
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President Park Geun-hye delivers her commemorative address at the Liberation Day anniversary event at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in central Seoul on Aug. 15. President Park Geun-hye¡¯s proposal for resuming reunions for estranged families between South and North Korea ¡¦
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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is on its way to making the tourism industry a high value-added fusion industry that will create jobs and be a future growth engine for Korea, based on the decision made at the first Tourism Promotion Meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential mansion¡¦
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2nd Vice Minister Yoon Jong-lok of the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP) (photo: MSIPThe Park Geun-hye government attaches top policy priority to building the creative economy and creating jobs.
¡°The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (M¡¦
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Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-seok announces South and North Koreas¡¯ agreeing to the reopening of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea, shut down by North Korea unilaterally. (photos:MOU) South and North Korea agreed on Aug. 14 to normalize the Gaeseong In¡¦
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Dir. Gen. Kwon Byung-yoon of the Road Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) is seeking to introduce the next-generation Cooperative-ITS, designed to optimize road utilization and dramatically reduce traffic¡¦
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A view of the Smart Geospatial Expo 2012.(photos: MOLIT) The global spatial information market, whose size was estimated at 89 trillion won in 2010 with an annual average growth rate of 11 percent, is an up-and-coming ¡°blue-ocean¡± market forecast to surge to 150 trillion won by 2015.
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Lee Byung-rae, director general of financial services at the Financial Services Commission (FSC). (photo: FSC) From now on, financial companies will be required to separate their companywide business network and internet network. Thirty-six financial institutions with more than¡¦
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Administrator Siheon Seong of the Korea Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS)"We¡¯re stepping up our efforts to reinforce organizational capacity so that Korea can develop into a global powerhouse of standards. To that end, we are spearheading Korea¡¯s international standardization and str¡¦
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President & CEO Lee Young-jun of Lotte Chemical. (Photos: Lotte Chemical)¡°We have to set reform and improvement milestones faithfully and carry out not only long-term global business restructuring but also a business structure shift of domestic ¡¦
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President Kim Jong-chool gives his inaugural speech as he took office as KAI¡¯s 9th president of KAI at an inauguration ceremony at KAI headquarters in Sacheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, on March 19. (Photos: KAI)Under the leadership of new President Kim Jon¡¦
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(From left) Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Karel Havlíček, Son Seung-woo, Head of Doosan Enerbility¡¯s Power Services Business Group, Daniel Procházka, COO of Doosan Skoda Power, and Kim Jeong-kwan¡¦
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Minister of Climate, Energy and Environment Kim Sung-hwan gets a briefing on electrode boiler from KDHC CEO Jeong Yong-ki as he toured KDHC¡¯s branch in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, on March 11. Korea District Heating Corp. (KDHC) has built a communit¡¦
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