Air Busan Co., a budget carrier unit of Asiana Airlines Inc., said Thursday it will open the Incheon-Vladivostok route in February to meet business travel demand.   Air Busan will offer flights to the Russian far eastern port city every t

Container volume at Incheon Port, the nation’s gateway for seaborne trade, has tumbled to a six-month low due to severe bottlenecks at major ports around the world and more lucrative offers by Chinese cargo owners. According to Incheon Port A

South Korean budget carrier Air Premia Co. said Friday it has opened its first international cargo flight to Singapore to focus on the cargo business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Air Premia plans to operate the Incheon-Singapore route every Friday at

SEJONG -- South Korea and Vietnam agreed to bolster coordination on trade and development projects during a ministerial meeting in Seoul, Wednesday, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said. At the meeting, Korea’s Minister of Trade, In

Hundreds of small business owners took to the streets in Seoul on Wednesday to express their pent-up anger over the government‘s retightening of COVID-19 protocols nationwide. Chants of “Stop politically-motivated quarantine measures th

BAT Rothmans, the Korean business arm of British American Tobacco, is ramping up its recycling campaign in Korea to encourage people not to throw away used Glo devices, the company said Wednesday. The Seoul office of the London-based tobacco compan

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Trade Week 2021 ended its four-day run on Friday, connecting local small and medium sized enterprises with foreign buyers and inviting experts to share insights on globalization strategies. Organized by the Seoul Business Agency, the event offered

South Korean finance minister Hong Nam-ki said Monday that Seoul will begin the process of joining the CPTPP. Approval from the current 11 members is ...

Business leaders in the cosmetics and beauty industry shared their thoughts on the growth potential of K-beauty on Thursday, at Trade Week 2021, a four-day global conference organized by the Seoul Business Agency, to offer support for small and mediu

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong returned to Seoul on Thursday, ending a three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates involving a “small meeting.” “I had a small meeting in Abu Dhabi,” Lee told reporters as he arr

In times of digital transformation, bigger firms have the tools, technology and personnel for digital transformation, but smaller companies often lack the necessary resources. This is where the Seoul Business Agency steps in to support small- to medi

Trade Week 2021 -- the Seoul Business Agency’s global trade conference, established to offer export opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in Seoul -- began its four-day run Tuesday. The SBA, a city-run agency that supports SMEs

South Korea will be able to import around 120,000 tons of urea per year from Indonesia over the next three years, a move expected to help prevent a supply crunch of the key industry material here, Seoul's industry ministry said Tuesday. The agreemen

Hyundai Engineering & Construction said it will begin sales of 698 new apartments later this month in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul. The apartments belong to a new estate named Hillstate Pyeongtaek The First, which will consist of a t

By Myung-Soo Hong, Professor of Law, Myongji University The trade ministers of South Korea and the US are meeting in Seoul for the first time in 10 years on Nov. 18, 2021. During the meeting, it is expected that various economic and trade related p

South Korea will spend 20 billion won ($16.9 million) next year to nurture local industries for materials, parts and equipment for chips, future cars, bio products and nanotechnologies, officials said Wednesday. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki, unveil

US Trade Representative Katherine Chi Tai will visit Seoul on Thursday, according to government officials on Sunday. It will mark the first time in 10 years for the country’s chief trade negotiator to visit South Korea since Free Trade Agreeme

After staying under the radar for more than three months since his parole in August, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Sunday revealed himself at an airport in Seoul leaving for a business trip to Canada and the United States. The S

SEOUL: South Korea is preparing to let more foreign workers return to the country to provide relief to local farms, factories, and construction sites, which heavily rely on migrant labour, after it has limited non-professional working visa issuance for almost two years during a Covid-19 pandemic.