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Youth internship program for SMEs to be expanded
[ Ministry of Employment and Labor ]
Jan 15, 2013
The youth internship program for SMEs, which provides support for young people to be employed as regular workers after their internship at SMEs, will be expanded to cover 50,000 beneficiaries this year. The youth internship program for SMEs is a program that provides wage subsidi...
Korea-Myanmar and Korea-Vietnam Finance Ministers' Meet...
[ Ministry of Strategy and Finance ]
Jan 15, 2013
Strategy and Finance Minister Bahk Jaewan had economic cooperation meetings in Myanmar and Vietnam with his counterparts on January 10 and 11. Myanmar has been thought of as a new growth engine of the global economy since it opened its markets in 2011. Korea has been searching fo...
Overseas Diplomatic Missions to Issue Accredited Certif...
[ Ministry of Foreign Affairs ]
Jan 14, 2013
1. Starting from January 15, 2013, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security will allow overseas diplomatic missions to issue accredited certificates to overseas applicants of nationality of the Republic of Korea on a trial b...
MLTM decides to be more active in the Kuwaiti and Qatar...
[ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport ]
Jan 14, 2013
MLTM decides to be more active in the Kuwaiti and Qatari construction markets Mr. Han, VM of MLTM, vows for more active inter-governmental cooperation for wider assistance for metros and marine bridges   The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs of the Republ...
Container handling volume in 2012 breaks record with it...
[ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport ]
Jan 14, 2013
Container handling volume in 2012 breaks record with its 22,497,000TEU - Over 20,000,000TEU handled for two years in a row since 2011 - - Busan port expected to keep its number two status in the world in transshipment (8,100,000TEU) -     The Ministry of Land, Tran...
ROK Reelected as an IRENA Council Member
[ Ministry of Foreign Affairs ]
Jan 13, 2013
1. The Republic of Korea was reelected as a member of the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at the 3rd session of its General Assembly held in Abu Dhabi on January 13 and 14. The ROK, following its 2011-2012 tenure as one of IRENA’s inaugural Council me...
IT Trade Figures for 2012
[ Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy ]
Jan 11, 2013
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy has released its IT trade figures for 2012. The nation’s trade balance in the information technology sector posted a $77.3 billion surplus. Although IT exports fell 0.9 percent year on year to $155.2 billion due to unfavorable external economic c...
MKE Releases Car Sales Figures for 2012
[ Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy ]
Jan 11, 2013
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy has released its car sales figures for 2012. Due to sluggish domestic demand and strikes at major automobile manufacturers, the nation’s car production declined 2.1 percent year on year to 4,558,160 vehicles. Exports rose 0.4 percent to 3,165,689...
Parallel with cars, a road-sharing train track system s...
[ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport ]
Jan 11, 2013
Parallel with cars, a road-sharing train track system set to be developed - Road-buried-type train track soon to be created with new Korean technology -   A buried-type train track system that can operate urban trams on itself among others, amidst its being re-recogni...
Outcome of the 12th ROK-Japan Vice-Ministerial Strategi...
[ Ministry of Foreign Affairs ]
Jan 10, 2013
1. First Vice Foreign Minister Ahn Ho-young met with his Japanese counterpart Chikao Kawai in Tokyo, Japan, on January 10, 2013, for the 12th Vice-Ministerial Strategic Dialogue. In the meeting, the two Vice Ministers exchanged in-depth views on a wide range of matters of mu...