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South Korea Gyeongju launches a supporters group of 34 foreign language-speaking public officials

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young | Gyeongju City has launched a supporters' group composed of foreign language-speaking public officials to focus on its bid for the 2025 APEC Summit. The city of Gyeongju held a launching ceremony for the "Gyeongju Love Global Public Officials Supporters Group" at the large conference room of Gyeongju City Hall on Feb. 16, the city announced on Feb. 18. The supporters' group is composed of 34 public officials from 22 departments who can speak English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. Gyeongju City, which is focusing its administrative efforts on hosting the
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-19 14:29
South Korea Foreign Minister Cho meets with KITA Chairman Koo Cha-yol

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul held a meeting with Koo Cha-yol, Chairman of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) on February 13, to discuss ways to enhance the responsiveness and vitality of Korean businesses in the face of a rapidly changing and uncertain global landscape. This is the fifth engagement with business associations since Minister Cho took office. Minister Cho participated in the New year event hosted by the innovative venture industry (January 19) and met with leaders of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI, January 22), Korea Ch
- 이갑수 기자
- 2024-02-16 15:50
South Korea Collapse incident-plagued GS E&C to launch 'Songdo Xi Scenery Granoble' in February

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young In April last year, five construction companies, including GS E&C, Daebo E&C, and Dongbu E&C, were suspended from business due to the Incheon Geomdan apartment incident, and credit rating agencies downgraded their ratings and outlooks. This, coupled with the uncertain external environment and market downturn, has raised concerns about the level of financial burden on construction companies. GS E&C, which has been suffering from bad reputation due to poor construction, announced on February 15 that it will sell 'Songdo Xi Scenery Granoble', which will
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-16 11:00
South Korea Ven. Chief Monk Hyangdeok promotes cultural exchanges with foreign envoys

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo Venerable Chief Monk Hyangdeok (Park Seong-eok in Korean name) of the Cheonmansa Buddhist Temple in Ulsan is striving to promote world peace and cultural exchanges between Korea and foreign countries while attending major cultural events with foreign ambassadors in Korea. Ven. Chief Monk Hyangdeok, who is honorary consular of culture and economy of the Embassy of Ethiopia and UN NGO World Peace Ambassador, always prays for good luck and good health for all people he met, including foreign ambassadors, staff members of foreign embassies and their family members in Kore
- Lee Kap-soo 기자
- 2024-02-14 16:03
South Korea 'Koreans' unstoppable love of Starbucks'

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo The number of Starbucks stores in South Korea ranks fourth in the world, after the United States, China and Japan. According to Starbucks' global website on Feb. 12, the number of Starbucks stores in South Korea totaled 1,893 at the end of last year, up 116 from the previous year. That's just eight fewer than Japan (1,901), which has 2.5 times the population of South Korea. The number of Starbucks stores in South Korea has steadily increased by more than 100 each year, from 1,508 in 2020 to 1,639 in 2021 and 1,777 in 2022. In Japan, the number of Starbucks stores grew
- Lee Kap-soo 기자
- 2024-02-14 14:01
South Korea Samsung earns ‘product carbon reduction’ certification from TÜV Rheinland

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo Samsung announced on Feb. 12 that eight product series1 in its 2024 Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED 4K, OLED, and The Frame lineups have received the “Product Carbon Reduction” certification from TÜV Rheinland, the international independent third-party testing, inspection, and certification organization. The certification demonstrates the carbon footprint reduction ratio of these products compared to the previous year’s model, serving as a testament to the company’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions year-over-year. “As the world’s leading TV manufacturer, it is our responsibil
- Lee Kap-soo 기자
- 2024-02-13 17:04
South Korea Feb. 14 is the day that independence fighter An Jung-geun was sentenced to death

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young Let's not be a soulless people on Feb. 14. Some people may know whether it is Valentine's Day, but how many people remember that Feb. 14 is the day when Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun, a hero of our country and the pride of our nation, was sentenced to death by the Japanese. But to hide that fact, Japan made it a day to exchange chocolates between lovers as a shallow gesture. It's a shameful and unbelievable story that they're trying to hide the memory of this day. February 14, the day a Korean hero was sentenced to death at the tender age of 31, should b
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-13 15:23
South Korea “First Lady Kim’s luxury bag scandal is a ‘mock political operation’”

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young President Yoon Suk-yeol has labeled his wife Kim Keun-hee's luxury bag scandal as "political maneuvering" and emphasized that he will "take a firm line in the future." This is Yoon's first public statement on the controversy. In the 100-minute "Special Interview with the President," which aired on KBS on July 7, President Yoon said, “It's an operation because Choi, a Korean-American pastor, came with a watch and a hidden camera.” President Yoon said, "The fact that she was unable to cold-heartedly reject him was the problem, if one can call it a problem, and it is a
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-08 10:28
South Korea Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism promotes 'K-Culture Project' in 2024

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon announced the 'Major Policy Promotion Plan for 2024' on June 6, which includes cultural folklore policies and strategies for K-culture's overseas expansion. The ministry selected this year's priority tasks with the vision of 'a happy society with culture and a global cultural powerhouse led by K-culture'. It aims to raise the national leisure satisfaction rate from 60.7 percent last year to 65 percent this year, and increase the revenue of the K-content industry from 150 trillion won in 2022 to 170 trillion won thi
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-07 16:01
South Korea Former President Park Geun-hye says, "I don't blame anyone”

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo "As a person who served as president, I wrote my memoirs with the hope that they would serve as a lesson for future generations by revealing what I regretted and what I did well," said former President Park Geun-hye at the launch of her memoirs, "Park Geun-hye Memoirs: Past the Darkness and into the Future. On the same day, Park also released for the first time a handwritten memo she wrote in late fall 2021, when she was imprisoned for more than four years and nine months. At a book release ceremony held at a hotel in Daegu, Park said that in late 2021, about half a y
- Lee Kap-soo 기자
- 2024-02-06 10:51
South Korea Gyeonggi Gov. Kim meets with lawmakers from the Aichi Prefectural Assembly

By UN Journal Kim Ji-eun Gyeonggi-do Governor Kim Dong-yeon met with a group of lawmakers from the Aichi Prefectural Assembly on Jan. 30 at the Gyeonggi-do Government Office to seek ways to revitalize friendly cooperation between Gyeonggi-do and Aichi Prefecture, including cooperation in the manufacturing sector and youth exchanges. The six members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's Aichi Prefectural Assembly visited Gyeonggi-do in preparation for the 2026 Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games, and delivered a letter from the governor of Aichi Prefecture expressing their desire to expand friend
- 김지은 기자
- 2024-02-05 16:54
South Korea Bucheon Mayor Cho meets with Amb. of the Kyrgyz Republic to Korea

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young Bucheon City Mayor Cho Yong-ik met with Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to South Korea Aida Ismailova, and agreed to find ways for mutual cooperation on Jan. 29. Bucheon City announced on Jan. 31 that Bucheon and Kyrgyz Republic have recently increased exchanges in the medical and economic fields. Soon Chun Hyang University Bucheon Hospital has been operating the Bishkek Imaging Consultation Center in Kyrgyzstan since 2022, and a local cosmetics company signed a contract to sell functional cosmetics to CIS member states, including Kyrgyzstan, in January this year.
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-05 16:49
South Korea POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo meets with Australia's resources minister

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo Choi Jeong-woo, chairman of POSCO Group, recently met with Australian Minister for Resources Madeleine King to discuss the eco-friendly future business cooperation that POSCO Group is promoting in Australia. According to POSCO on Feb. 5, Minister Madeleine King visited the POSCO Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on Jan. 31 and exchanged views with Chairman Choi on the business areas of steel, clean hydrogen and secondary battery materials. At the meeting, Choi said, "The areas of cooperation between POSCO Group and Australia for the common goal of carbon neutrality are div
- 이갑수 기자
- 2024-02-05 16:46
South Korea Tajikistan's ambassador meets with Gyeongbuk Gov. Lee Chul-woo

By UN Journal Lee Kap-soo Tajikistan's Ambassador to Korea Kirom Salohiddin and his delegation met with Gyeongbuk Governor Lee Chul-woo on Jan. 30 to discuss the expansion of friendly exchanges between Gyeongbuk Province and Tajikistan. Lee Ok-ryun, president of the Korea-Central Asia Friendship Association, also attended the meeting. Tajikistan is a country in Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.). Although 93% of the country is mountainous, it has shown competitiveness in agriculture and textiles
- 이갑수 기자
- 2024-02-02 16:06
South Korea GS E&C faces eight-month business suspension

By UN Journal Lee Jon-young The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) announced on Feb. 1 that it will impose an eight-month business suspension on five construction companies, including GS E&C, in connection with the collapse of the underground parking lot of an apartment building in Geomdan New City in Incheon. Five companies, GS E&C, Dongbu Corp., Daebo E&C, Sangha Construction, and Asia General Construction, were given an eight-month business suspension. The suspension period is from April 1 to November 30. The suspended construction companies are prohibited f
- Jon Lee 기자
- 2024-02-02 14:37

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