The late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee. (Photos: Samsung Group)The late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee had been credited with catapulting a local business into a global tech giant of chips, smartphones and home appliances. He died at Samsung Hospital in Gangnam, Seoul, on Oct. 25. He was 78…

Ahn Jong-bae, Chairman of Global Futures Studies Association & Professor of Hansei University.Please explain the world change after COVID-19 in one word.‘The New Renaissance’ With the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world has gone through chaos for a while, and humanism will converge with science and t…

Artist Lee takes a look at an album of portraits of Shin Saimdang and Yulgok Yi Yi printed on Korean banknotes. (Photos: Artist Lee Jong-sang's office)Artist Lee Jong-sang painted portraits of two historic figures to be used on Korean banknotes. The artist is considered one of the greatest portrait …

Dir.-Gen. Han Sang-bae of the Food Safety Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). (Photo: MFDS)Starting this year, the pesticide positive list system (PLS) has gone into force to ensure safety management of pesticides from the stage of production. The regime is designed to cont…

Deputy Minister Song Hyung-keun of the Natural Environment Policy Office at the Ministry of Environment (MOE). (Photos: MOE)The Act on Waste Management is to go into force next May to put an end to the illegal dumping of waste. Under the law, waste producers and those entrusted with treating waste, …

취임 1주년을 맞으셨는데 소감은?1년이 어떻게 지나갔는지 모를 정도로 바빴다. 취임 후 처음에는 현실을 진단하고 발전 방안을 구상하는데 시간을 많이 보냈다. 매일 새벽 다섯 시에 일어나 자정이 돼야 집에 들어갈 정도로 하루하루 최선을 다해 열심히 일했다. 한 달 평균 1만 km를 달렸다. 1년 동안 지구 세 바퀴에 달…

2019년 기해년(己亥年) 희망찬 새해가 밝았습니다.동해에 힘차게 떠오르는 태양의 기운을 받아 모든 분들 건강하시고, 행복과 웃음이 넉넉한 한 해가 되기를 기원합니다.지난해 여러분께서 보내주신 성원 덕분에 도지사에 취임해서 경상북도의 새로운 미래를 만들어가기 위한 변화와 혁신을 시작할 수 있었습니다.현재 우리…

이개호 농림축산식품부 장관11월 15일 플라자호텔 메이플홀 4층에서 '우리농촌 어떻게 할것인가' 라는 주제로이개호 농림축산식품부 장관의 특강이 있었다.다음은 특강내용의 발췌부분이다.농촌은 참 어렵습니다. 어려워서 곧 없어질 것처럼 생각하시는 분들이 많아요. 그런데 없어질 듯 하면서 절대 안 없어질 수밖에 없는…

Chairman Lee Jeong-ik of the Central Association for National Unification of Korea, known as Mintong, gives a speech at an event to mark 35th anniversary and Seoul Metropolitan City’s nationwide convention for unification at Jangchung Gymnaisum in Seoul last Sept. 21.A view of an event to mark 35th…