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Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
- Trade Ministry drops Japan from 'whitelist' of preferential trading nations
- Sep 18,2019
- Lee Ho-hyeon, director general for international trade policy of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, on Sept. 17 announces in a news conference at Government Comp...
- Vice science minister calls leaked Fukushima water 'global issue'
- Sep 17,2019
- Vice Minister of Science and ICT Moon Mi-Ock on Sept. 16 gives a keynote speech at the International Atomic Energy Agency's 63rd general meeting in Vienna, Austria. ...
- Trade Ministry to file WTO complaint over Japan's export restrictions
- Sep 11,2019
- Trade Minister Yu Myung-hee, Korea's top free trade negotiator from the Ministry of Trade, In, announces on Sept. 11 at Government Complex Seoul that the government will ...
- Korea-Japan trade spat worsening global economic uncertainty: Krugman
- Sep 10,2019
- Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki (right) on Sept. 9 shakes hands with Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman at a conference in Seoul on sharing the results of the govern...
- Japanese legal experts call forced laborer issue 'human rights violation'
- Sep 09,2019
- Korean and Japanese legal experts on Sept. 5 discuss joint resolutions to Japan's forced labor of Koreans during World War II at a symposium in Seoul organized by the Seo...
- Japanese economist: Trade spat to hasten Korea's economic autonomy from Japan
- Sep 06,2019
- Satoshi Okuda, a professor at Asia University in Tokyo, on Sept. 4 said Korea's economic dependence on Japan is weakening and warned that Japan risks a backlash if it imp...
- Japanese civic drive against export curbs on Korea nearing 10,000 signatures
- Sep 03,2019
- The homepage of the online signature campaign "Is Korea the enemy?" has more than 4,000 comments posted by Japanese. This civic drive urges the Japanese government to ret...
- President Moon blasts Japan for not reflecting on past, distorting it
- Aug 29,2019
- President Moon Jae-in on Aug. 29 speaks in a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae. (Yonhap News)By Oh Hyun Woo and Kim Minji President Moon Jae-in on Aug. 29 blasted Japan'...
- Cheong Wa Dae expresses 'deep regret' over Japan's trade sanction
- Aug 29,2019
- Kim Hyun-chong, deputy director of the National Security Office under Cheong Wa Dae, on Aug. 28 gives a briefing on the government's response to Japan's formal removal of...
- Think tank signs MOU on export control cooperation with US agency
- Aug 28,2019
- Bang Soon-ja (left), director of the Korea Strategic Trade Institute (KOSTI), and Brent K. Park, deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation of the National...