Tag: South Korea

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 20:37 UTC

  Argentine President meets South Korea's Prime Minister at Casa Rosada

  

  South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was welcomed Friday at Casa Rosada by Argentine President Alberto Fernández after arriving Thursday in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Chile and visiting South Korean PM agree to update trade deal and a strategic minerals MOU

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo agreed on Tuesday in Santiago to resume negotiations this year to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement that went into effect in 2004.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay potential customers of South Korea's military equipment

  

  Located in a part of the world with numerous and evolving security challenges not least North Korea, an aggressive neighbor with nuclear weapons and the largest per capita standing army in the world, South Korea has earned a solid reputation as a high quality military equipment manufacturer for land, air, sea and space, and could in a near future have the Argentine Air Force as one of its clients..

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Brazil and South Korea share it's a good moment to advance with the Mercosur agreement

  

  Brazil's leading think tank, Getulio Vargas Foundation, believes that in the current global trade situation with bottlenecks, shortages of inputs and transport challenges there is a great opportunity to reach an integral trade agreement between Mercosur and South Korea.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  South Korea to submit final plan for Paraguayan commuter train next month

  

  South Korea is to submit a Final Commuter Rail Proposal to the Paraguayan Government by Nov. 20, Ferrocarriles del Paraguay SA (Fepasa) CEO Lauro Ramírez announced Wednesday. The new commuter train line will link Asunción to Ypacaraí.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Uruguay expands meat sales business to Japan, South Korea

  

  Uruguayan meat sales to Japan have been growing at an increasingly faster pace, according to press reports. In 2019, trade was worth US $ 20 million; in 2020, US $ 24 million and so far in 2021, revenues in dollars have grown 72% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to Montevideo Portal.

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazilian industry and unions request suspension of Mercosur talks on reducing the Common External Tariff

  

  The Brazilian Confederation of Industry, CNI and the IndustriALL-Brasil (which represents industry unions) have officially requested that in the next Mercosur meeting, scheduled for early this month, Brazilian representatives withdraw the proposal for a reduction of block trade tariffs with other countries. However, both institutions also backed the current flexibilization of current trade talks with third countries, such as South Korea.

• Saturday, April 24th 2021 - 07:02 UTC

  Paraguay and South Korean finalize details for joint electric car parts production to start in 2022

  

  Paraguay's Minister of Industry and Commerce (MIC) Luis Alberto Castiglioni Friday discussed with South Korean Ambassador To Asunción In Shik Woo the establishment of an Auto Parts Technology Center for electric cars in the South American country, which is due to commence in 2022 and last for about five years, it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 06:32 UTC

  Colombia, South Korea strengthen bilateral relations during Seoul envoy trip to Bogota

  

  During his Bogota stop, South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-Kun expressed his country's concerns over Japan's intentions to release the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Asian nation's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday in a statement.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Vaccine safety questioned in South Korea: 13 people die from flu shots

  

  At least 13 South Koreans have died after receiving flu shots in recent days, according to official and local media reports, ramping up fears about vaccine safety even as authorities rule out a link.