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Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
Korea's response to Japan's export restriction
- Trade minister calls Japan's export restrictions on Korea 'groundless'
- Jul 24,2019
- Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Sung Yunmo on July 24 says in a briefing at Government Complex Seoul that the government sent a letter to Japan on the latter's pus...
- Trade ministry to urge retraction of Japan's export restrictions at WTO meeting
- Jul 23,2019
- Kim Seung-ho, director general for international trade and legal affairs at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, on July 22 talks to reporters about Korea's s...
- President Moon says Korea can surpass Japan economically
- Jul 23,2019
- President Moon on July 22 told a meeting of his senior secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae, "We have thus far surpassed Japan's absolute (economic) advantages one by one." (Cheo...
- North Korea slams Japan's export restrictions on SK
- Jul 22,2019
- North Koreans are shown reading a copy of The Rodong Shinmun (Labor Newspaper) at a kiosk installed at Pyeongyang Station. The North's media slammed Japan for imposing ex...
- Bloomberg editorial urges Japan PM to stop 'foolish trade war'
- Jul 22,2019
- Bloomberg News on July 22 criticized Japan's trade restrictions on Korea in an editorial titled "Abe's Trade War With South Korea Is Hopeless." (Screen capture from Bloom...
- Cheong Wa Dae rejects Japan's arbitration committee proposal
- Jul 19,2019
- This statue located at Yongsan Station Square in Seoul is a memorial to Korean victims of forced labor during Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Korea.net D...
- Japanese Korean scholar: Japan prepared economic sanctions 6 years ago
- Jul 19,2019
- Pictured is a column on Japan's recent economic sanctions on Korea by Yuji Hosaka, a Japanese Korean professor at Sejong University in Seoul, that was posted on July 19 o...
- Trade ministry urges director general-level talks on Japan's export curbs
- Jul 19,2019
- Lee Ho-hyeon, director general of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's trade policy bureau, on July 19 announces the government's stance on Japan's export curbs o...
- Korea outranks Japan in control of strategic items: US think tank
- Jul 18,2019
- Korea in May this year received a far higher ranking (17th) than Japan (36th) in the control of strategic materials trade, according to the U.S.-based Institute for Scien...
- Foreign media paying closer attention to Korea-Japan trade row
- Jul 18,2019
- Korea's trade spat with Japan has continued to worsen since Tokyo imposed export restrictions on its neighboring country. (iclickart)By Kang Gahui and Lee Jihae After Pre...