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Kang Seung-woo is the Business Desk editor at The Korea Times. Prior to this position, he covered politics, national affairs, finance and sports.

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Korea International School holds annual Human Rights Week event

From left, KIS director Michelle Quirin, student Je-young, U.S. Ambassador to Korea Philip Goldberg, student Lily and KIS Headmaster Min Sun-shik pose during the school's Human Rights Week 2023 at its Pangyo Campus in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, April 7. Courtesy of Korea International School By Kang Seung-wooKorea International School (KIS) held an event to mark Human Rights Week (HRW) last week, highlighting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and featuring expert guest speakers who addressed current global issues. The annual event took place from April 3 to 7 at KIS Pangyo Campus in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. HRW is organized by the Korea Human Rights Initiative (KHRI), a group of high school students who work yearlong to raise awareness and encourage action on important issues such as peace and justice, LGBTQ rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability. KIS requested for participating students who gave comments to be identified only by their first names.A KIS student and KHRI member named Je-young said he believes that events in the news are not so dista

Apr 18, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Korea International School holds annual Human Rights Week event
Foreign Affairs

KOICA holds Digital Innovation Day

Lee Yun-young, acting president of KOICA, delivers a congratulatory speech at a Digital Innovation Day event in the agency's headquarters in Seongnam, Tuesday. Courtesy of KOICABy Kang Seung-wooThe Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) held a Digital Innovation Day event, Tuesday, highlighting the organization's digital transformation efforts to promote advanced official development assistance (ODA) in the post-pandemic era. Following the establishment of its digital transformation strategy in 2021, KOICA is striving for efficiency through digital means in its projects and management for outcome-oriented development cooperation. To strengthen capacity and bolster digital innovation, KOICA has set the period of April 17 to 28 as Digital Innovation Week. Various events will take place during the span, including the Digital Innovation Day event, lectures on digital innovation and an employee hackathon for digital transformation ideas. The 2023 Digital Work Innovation Roadmap was announced at the event. The roadmap includes work automation, internal system improvements, the intr

Apr 18, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
KOICA holds Digital Innovation Day
North Korea

South Korea, US, Japan warn of North Korea's overseas workers

Kim Gunn, center, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, join hands with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts Sung Kim, right, and Takehiro Funakoshi ahead of their talks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, Friday. Yonhap By Kang Seung-wooSouth Korea, Japan and the United States urged member states of the United Nations, Friday, to repatriate all North Korean overseas workers that they believe are key sources of foreign currency and revenue for the development of Pyongyang's nuclear program. The call came from a joint statement after the top nuclear envoys of the three countries ― Kim Gunn, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, Sung Kim, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, and Takehiro Funakoshi, Japan's director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs ― held a meeting in Seoul ― the first time since December last year. “We underscore that in accordance with UNSC resolution 2397, U.N. Member States are required to repatriate all DPRK laborers earning income in their

Apr 7, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
South Korea, US, Japan warn of North Korea's overseas workers
Defense

Academic exchange between Air Force, Hanwha

Lt. Gen. Lee Sang-hak, right, the superintendent of the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, poses with Hanwha Aerospace President Son Jae-il after they signed an academic exchange agreement to enhance the capabilities of the Air Force at the academy in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Wednesday. The company manufactures engines for the KF-21, the nation's first domestically developed fighter jet, currently under development. Courtesy of Hanwha Aerospace

Apr 6, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Academic exchange between Air Force, Hanwha
Opinion

Stop playing 'blame game'

By Kang Seung-wooLess than a year since attaining power, President Yoon Suk Yeol and his People Power Party (PPP) are seeing a great decline in their approval ratings ― an unusual phenomenon for a new ruling bloc, which traditionally should be enjoying a so-called honeymoon period.According to the latest poll by Gallup Korea, Friday, Yoon's approval rating fell to a four-month low of 30 percent, with his disapproval rating reaching 60 percent. Another survey by Realmeter on positive sentiment toward political parties, released on Monday, saw the ruling party trailing the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) by 10 percentage points ― 47.1 percent to 37.1 percent. However, with no signs of a clear-cut exit plan to turn things around, the ruling party seems to have adopted a new yet unexpected ploy of blaming its predecessor ― a pattern that they were strongly critical of during the tenure of former President Moon Jae-in, who often blamed his predecessor, President Park Geun-hye, for being the source of all the problems.The “blame game” strategy comes as Yoon urg

Apr 5, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Stop playing 'blame game'
Others

Rally for Expo

Officials of Nam District Office in Busan and residents engage in a campaign at a peace park, Wednesday, to promote the port city's bid to host the World Expo 2030. The inspection team from the Bureau International des Expositions will visit Seoul and Busan next week to evaluate the city's suitability and preparedness to host the global exhibition. Yonhap

Mar 29, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Rally for Expo
Defense

US aircraft carrier to visit Busan amid NK provocations

This photo, released by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), shows U.S. fighters taking off from the USS Nimitz during a visit by JCS Chairman Gen. Kim Seung-kyum to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to inspect South Korean and U.S. Navies' joint drill on seas off South Korea's Jeju Island, 465 kilometers south of Seoul, March 27. Yonhap Pyongyang fires two short-range ballistic missiles By Kang Seung-wooA U.S. Navy carrier strike group will arrive in Busan, Tuesday, as part of efforts to bolster the two countries' combined military posture as well as promoting South Korea-U.S. friendship on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of their alliance, Seoul's defense ministry said, Monday.“The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG 11) will pull into a naval base in Busan tomorrow,” Ministry of Defense spokesman Jeon Ha-kyou said at a briefing. The CSG 11 is comprised of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, the

Mar 27, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
US aircraft carrier to visit Busan amid NK provocations
  • USS Nimitz carrier in S. Korea amid N. Korea's saber-rattling
Foreign Affairs

KOICA to support earthquake-affected people in Turkey

Director-General Chung You-a of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance of KOICA, right, and Maruf Yaman, head of Foreign Affairs Department of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, pose after signing a Record of Discussions, in Hatay Province, Turkey, Wednesday (local time). Courtesy of KOICABy Kang Seung-wooThe Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) signed a Record of Discussions with the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) of Turkey, Wednesday, for a cooperative project to build a temporary settlement for victims of the earthquake in Turkey. Through this agreement, KOICA and AFAD will cooperate with private organizations to create a temporary settlement composed of 500 container housing structures in Hatay Province.The project will also include services for earthquake-affected people regarding psychological and social support, a system for protection and livelihood, education, health and nutrition and WASH (Water, sanitation and hygiene). Through the project, some $10 million ($12.9 billion) will be provided in

Mar 24, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
KOICA to support earthquake-affected people in Turkey
Defense

Korea to start mass production of KF-21 in 2024

The fourth prototype of the KF-21 Boramae conducts a test flight after taking off from the Air Force's 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, Feb. 20. Courtesy of Defense Acquisition Program AdministrationBy Kang Seung-wooKorea's state-run arms procurement agency said, Thursday, it seeks to achieve "tentative" combat suitability of the KF-21 Boramae by May ― six months earlier than planned ― in order to kick off mass production of the domestically developed fighter jet next year. The 4.5-generation combat aircraft is expected to enter service in 2026, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration added.Since its maiden flight in July 2022, four prototypes of the KF-21, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), have flown a total of 142 sorties as of March 10, including a flight reaching supersonic speed. It also carried out a successful flight with its advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar mounted earlier this month. DAPA briefed lawmakers during a session of the National Assembly's National Defense Committee on the development plan, including its push to com

Mar 23, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Korea to start mass production of KF-21 in 2024
Foreign Affairs

Seoul to announce normalization of GSOMIA: Japanese media

Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during their summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 13, 2022. Korea Times file By Kang Seung-wooA Japanese media outlet reported, Thursday, that the South Korean government has decided to put the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) back on track amid signs of improving ties between the neighboring countries. The GSOMIA is a bilateral security agreement between South Korea and Japan to share sensitive military and intelligence information. The former Moon Jae-in administration nearly let the pact expire in 2019 in response to Tokyo's tightened controls on exports to Seoul.However, South Korea conditionally suspended the decision to terminate the agreement, following a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate calling on Seoul to renew it, leaving the pact in a somewhat unstable state, as the South Korean government had said that it could scrap the GSOMIA at any time.Citing a South

Mar 9, 2023By Kang Seung-woo
Seoul to announce normalization of GSOMIA: Japanese media
  • PM defends forced labor solution to mend ties with Japan
  • Yoon to visit Japan next week for summit with Kishida
  • Yoon to hold summit with Kishida in Japan next week
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