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Monday, July 26, 2021

 

Round-up of important news from major Korean dailies and from international media today

 

The Korea Post (http://www.koreapost.com/)
SK Hynix joins Cheongju Craft Biennale as official partner

The Cheongju Craft Biennale Organizing Committee announced on July 23 that it signed an official partnership with SK Hynix at the office of Cheongju City Hall on July 22. SK Hynix, a global semiconductor company, has joined as an official partner of the 2021 Cheongju Craft Biennale, the world's first and largest festival in the craft sector. Following the signing of the partnership, SK Hynix will purchase tickets worth 30 million won to cheer for the successful hosting of the biennale, while the biennale committee promised proper treatment to its official partner such as invitations to official events and exposure to media advertisements. Moon Yoo-jin, vice president of Cheongju branch of SK Hynix, said, "I think it is very meaningful to be a partner with the Cheongju Craft Biennale, a global festival with the world," adding, "I hope this partnership will give strength to the community that is shrinking due to COVID-19."

 

Moon Yong-sung, CEO of Big Boss Entertainment, named the 6th KEMA president

The Korea Entertainment Management Association (KEMA) said on July 22 that Moon Yong-sung, CEO of Big Boss Entertainment, has been elected as the sixth chairman of the association. As a result of the sixth election of KEMA executives, Chairman Moon Yong-sung (CEO of Big Boss Entertainment), Vice Chairman Kim Won-seop (CEO of Around US Entertainment), and Vice Chairman Lee Young-joon (CEO of Blessing) were elected. The elected chairman and vice chairmen have made a resolution to do their best to develop the Korean pop culture and arts industry, a KEMA spokesman said. KEMA is a corporation of 3,000 public cultural artists leading the Korean Wave, 260 pop culture and arts planning companies that manage them, and 500 members. It strives to protect the rights of its members and establish globalization and systematic development of pop culture.

 

Hyundai Chung Mong-Koo inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-Koo has been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame at the 2020/2021 Induction and Awards Ceremony, a group spokesman said on Juy 23. The industry’s top honor was presented to the class of 2020 at a celebration held at the ICON Convention Center in Detroit on July 22. The induction ceremony was attended by Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, who participated in Honorary Chairman Chung’s place. Chairman Chung received the induction trophy and made a speech on behalf of his father. Honorary Chairman Chung grew Hyundai Motor group into the world’s fifth largest automaker from its humble beginning. If my father were here, he would say he owes this honor to our employees, dealers and fantastic customers,” said Chung Eui-sun.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                

KBS (http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/)

S. Korea Picks up One Gold, One Bronze Medals on Day 3

South Korea added one gold medal in archery and a bronze in judo at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Kang Chae-young, Jang Min-hee and An San-defeated the Russian Olympic Committee team 6-0 during the finals of the women’s team event at Yumenoshima Final Field in Tokyo. It extended South Korea’s winning streak in the event to the ninth Olympics. South Korean judoka Ahn Baul won a bronze medal in the men’s 66 kilogram event after losing to Vahza Margvelashvili of Georgia in the semifinals earlier in the day. Ahn beat world’s first-ranked Manuel Lombardo of Italy by an ippon in the bronze medal decider at Nippon Budokan, claiming a medal at his second consecutive Olympics. He won silver in the same class at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

 

Pandemic-Hit Small Biz to Receive Relief Fund from Aug. 17

The new round of relief payments for small businesses that were hit hard under strict COVID-19 quarantine policies will be provided from August 17. According to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Sunday, each business owner will receive one million won to 20 million won worth of “recovery funds” depending on the level and duration of quarantine measures that affected them and size of their businesses. Any small-size businesses who were affected by pandemic-induced bans or restrictions between August 16 of last year and June 30 this year or saw a significant decline in sales during the cited period will be able to apply for the latest payout. The government plans to provide another relief payment for those affected by the fourth round of the pandemic, which began early July, from late October. In the initial 33 trillion won worth second extra budget plan, the government had earmarked four-point-84 trillion won for such emergency use by the SMEs Ministry.

 

S. Korea Posts Record-high Sunday COVID-19 Tally at 1,487

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases remained in the four figures for the 19th consecutive day on Sunday despite fewer tests conducted over the weekend. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced one-thousand-487 cases compiled throughout Saturday, bringing the country's cumulative caseload to 188-thousand-848. The daily tally dropped by 142 from the previous day but marks the highest figure reported on a Sunday since the nation registered its first COVID-19 case in January of last year, replacing the previous record of one-thousand-454 reported last Sunday. Of the new cases, one-thousand-422 were local transmissions and 65 came from overseas. By region, the greater metro area accounted for 61-point-six percent of local infections at 876, including 478 in Seoul and 315 in Gyeonggi Province. Other parts of the nation added 546 cases, including 116 in South Gyeongsang Province and 106 in Busan.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

Yonhap (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr)

New cases under 1,500 on fewer tests; non-Seoul areas under toughened curbs

South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases fell below 1,500 Sunday due to fewer tests over the weekend, but infections outside the capital area continued to pile up, triggering toughened restrictions. The country added 1,487 COVID-19 cases, including 1,422 local infections, raising the total caseload to 188,848, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Daily infections fell from 1,629 on Saturday, 1,630 on Friday and a record high of 1,842 on Thursday, when 270 infected members of the 301-strong Cheonghae Unit on an anti-piracy mission off Africa were counted. The daily caseload has remained above 1,000 since July 7 due to the resurgence in the greater Seoul area and the spread of the virus in non-Seoul regions as vacationers headed to tourist spots across the country in the summer season and highly transmissible delta variant cases increased. The country added five more COVID-19 deaths, raising the death toll to 2,073. The fatality rate was at 1.10 percent.

 

Tokyo-born S. Korean judoka chases 1st Olympic medal

Born in Tokyo to second-generation Japanese-Korean parents, judoka An Chang-rim has been representing South Korea internationally since 2014. The 27-year-old has been gearing up for just this kind of moment: a chance to win his first Olympic medal in none other than Japan, and likely against a Japanese opponent. An will enter the men's 73kg event on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics. And his path to the gold will likely go through the Japanese great and the defending Olympic gold medalist Shohei Ono. An has lost all six matches against Ono so far in his career. They're on the opposite sides of the bracket and can only meet in the gold medal match in Tokyo. An was the top seed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics but failed to live up to the hype, as he lost in the third round to Dirk Van Tichelt of Belgium and never even sniffed a medal.


Int'l Red Cross stays committed to helping N. Korea, ready to resume assistance projects

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remains committed to humanitarian assistance for North Korea and ready to resume suspended projects in the country as soon as coronavirus situations improve, the head of its office in Seoul said. In a recent interview with Yonhap News Agency, David Maizlish, chief of the ICRC's Seoul mission, also took note of North Korea's recent emphasis on cooperation with the ICRC and other global humanitarian organizations amid its prolonged border closures due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was Maizlish's first interview with local media since he took office in December. "We want to reiterate our commitment to carrying out humanitarian activities, in collaboration with the DPRK Red Cross Society and authorities, to jointly address the humanitarian needs in the country," Maizlish said, using the acronym of the North's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
                                                                                                                                                                    

 

The Korea Herald (http://www.koreaherald.com)

Moon cancels summer holiday for third consecutive year

President Moon Jae-in has canceled his summer holiday for a third consecutive year as COVID-19 cases surged again recently, according to Cheong Wa Dae sources on Sunday. The president had planned to take his holiday in early August but the plans were canceled,” a Cheong Wa Dae official said on condition of anonymity. Even though Moon might take time off “later,” she said, that seems unlikely for now with COVID-19 showing no immediate signs of abating here. This is the third summer in which the president has canceled his holidays since his five-year tenure began in 2017. In 2019, he canceled his holiday in response to Japanese export restrictions affecting key display and chip materials. Japan’s decision was widely seen as an act of retaliation against Korean court rulings in favor of Korean victims of forced labor during the years 1910-1945, when the nation was under Japanese colonial rule.

 

More foreign diplomats exit North Korea amid COVID-19

More foreign diplomats stationed in North Korea, including from Indonesia and Bulgaria, have fled the reclusive regime due to dire living conditions amid prolonged COVID-19 restrictions. Japanese broadcaster NHK on Saturday reported that about 30 people believed to be diplomats and their family members arrived by bus at the Chinese border city of Dandong on Friday after leaving the North. The report said Indonesian Embassy vehicles were there to pick them up. Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that its diplomats in Pyongyang had left the country, and that it had been discussing the temporary repatriation of its officials with North Korean authorities since late last year.

 

Korea’s 1st travel bubble opens to a slow start

South Korea’s first travel bubble with Saipan kicked off quietly on Saturday morning with just a handful of passengers traveling under the scheme amid a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections. Two flights from Asiana Airlines and low-cost carrier Jeju Air departed from Incheon Airport for the main island in the Northern Mariana island chain. Though a total of 92 passengers were on board both flights, only six people on board the Asiana flight were traveling under the quarantine-free travel arrangement. The remaining passengers were residents or students, according to the transport ministry database. South Korea touted its first travel bubble agreement with Saipan in June, which was hailed as the beginning of quarantine-free international travel for South Koreans amid the pandemic.

                                                                                                                                                                     

 

The Korea Times (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr)

Chilean foreign minister proposes to upgrade FTA

Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Andres Allamand visited Korea to discuss upgrading the Korea-Chile free trade agreement as well as other cooperative measures ahead of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties in April 2022. Minister Allamand and International Economic Relations Vice Minister Rodrigo Yanez met Korea's Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong, Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee and National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug on July 21. Allamand and Chung discussed the finalization of negotiations to upgrade the 17-year-old bilateral FTA to meet the changed international economic environment. Chile also reaffirmed its support for Korea's accession to the Pacific Alliance as an associate member and the Korean Peninsula's peace process.

 

Top regulator's M&A revision to hit Naver, Kakao

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is revising regulations on platform operators' mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in hopes of restraining their expansion. According to the government, the FTC will review its regulation guidelines internally within this year and outsource the study on their effectiveness to a private research institute next year. Any regulation changes will be put into effect in 2022. Currently, it is out of the hands for the top regulator to exert control over firms like Naver or Kakao from advancing into new markets by taking over a number of startups in different industries. The FTC's current examination guidelines approve a major firm's right to acquire small companies from any sector freely as it deems such deals will barely affect their respective markets. However, the FTC saw platform operators expanding their businesses into multiple sectors and associating them with one another simultaneously.

 

Gov't struggling to prevent virus spread in holiday season

Exonerating jailed former president Park Geun-hye is emerging as a variable in Korea's presidential election next year, with President Moon Jae-in appearing to be contemplating whom he will grant presidential pardons to on the upcoming Aug. 15 Liberation Day. Rumors of a possible pardon for Park emerged earlier this week, as multiple news outlets here reported that Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong's case was under review by the Ministry of Justice for a Liberation Day release. Lee was jailed for bribing Park and her confidante Choi Soon-sil to win government support for him inheriting control of the Samsung conglomerate from his father, the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee.

                                                                                                               

 

Chosun Ilbo (http://english.chosun.com)
Fitch Slashes Growth Forecast as Korea Ages Rapidly

Global rating firm Fitch has maintained Korea's sovereign credit rating at AA-, the fourth-highest, but slashed its growth outlook because the population is rapidly aging. Fitch lowered Korea's potential annual growth from 2.5 percent to 2.3 percent. The figure is the greatest increase in GDP that can be achieved without triggering inflation and a gauge of economic strength. The firm said Korea "faces medium-term growth pressures from its rapidly aging population." The proportion of Korea's population over 60 rose from eight percent in 2008 to 13 percent last year, and they now outnumber people in their 20s. Korea's total fertility rate or the number of children a woman can have in her lifetime, stood at just 0.84 last year, which is among the lowest in the world. This year it is expected to fall even further to 0.7. A country's economy is apt to shrink when there is a shortage of young workers and a rising number of retirees.

 

Pollsters Baffled by Presidential Preferences

Pollsters are stumped after recent surveys about Koreans' preference for their next president produced wildly divergent results. Analysis of 18 polls that had been conducted over the past 10 days show that former Minjoo Party leader Lee Nak-yon is doing better than before, but the approval ratings of Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung and former chief prosecutor Yoon Seok-youl are stagnating, but the results also contradict each other to the point that they are meaningless. Yoon's approval rating was a whopping 30.3 percent in a poll conducted by Traffic Broadcasting System and the Korea Society Opinion Institute on July 16-17, but a mere 19.7 percent in another poll by MBC and Korea Research International on July 17-18.

 

Korea Faces Protracted Lockdown

Korea faces a protracted lockdown amid the collapse of the government's vaccination plans as new infections as new infections reached 1,650 as of Friday morning. The current lockdown rules for the greater Seoul area and some other parts were extended for another two weeks on Friday. Outside the capital, new cases surged to 546 on Wednesday, above 500 for the second day running and the highest since the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic that swept Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province in March last year. They made up over one-third of cases across the country. On July 12, health authorities tightened lockdown in the capital region, limiting private gatherings to four people until 6 p.m. and to two after that. When infections began to spike elsewhere, local governments to follow suit, but this has so far had no great effect on the number of cases.

                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

HanKyoReh Shinmun (http://english.hani.co.kr)
How are different countries reacting to Delta variant?

With the world facing yet another surge of COVID-19 infections as the Delta variant of the virus spreads, countries with high vaccination rates have adopted very different approaches to disease control. Both the UK and Israel opted on July 12 and 13 to ease up their control measures even as their confirmed case numbers grow. Meanwhile, the Netherlands has moved to step up its control measures, with nightclubs shut down again two weeks after they were permitted to reopen. As reasons for loosening their measures, the UK and Israel have pointed out that with vaccination rates high, rising confirmed case numbers do not translate into major increases in severe symptoms or deaths. The vaccination rate in the Netherlands is similar to those countries. According to Our World in Data statistics, the percentage of the Dutch population who had received at least one vaccine dose as of July 12 stood at 65.3%

 

Why has US blocked way for normalization of N. Korea-Japan relations twice?

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met in Pyongyang in September 2002 for the first summit between Japan and North Korea. But shortly after they announced the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration, the second North Korean nuclear crisis erupted. Is it a coincidence that a North Korean nuclear crisis occurred right when Pyongyang and Tokyo were attempting to mend ties not once but twice in the space of a decade? After North Korea and Japan’s efforts to normalize relations failed twice, first in 1990-1991 and then again in 2002, their relationship has floundered along, unable to reach a breakthrough. That’s a situation over which the US isn’t losing any sleep. On July 7, 1988, the Japanese government issued a statement expressing its willingness to negotiate with North Korea in regard to all pending issues between the two countries. That was immediately after South Korean President Roh Tae-woo said he was “willing to help North Korea improve relations with South Korean allies such as the US and Japan in order to form the conditions for establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula.”

 

Depressing and unprecedented: Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to begin

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics finally opened at the Japan National Stadium in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on Friday, despite numerous obstacles, including a one-year delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this year’s games, 339 gold medals are up for grabs in 33 sports. Competing this year are teams from the 204 National Olympic Committees that are part of the International Olympic Committee, except for North Korea, which decided to stay home this year. The Refugee Olympic Team will also be returning after its first appearance in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time in 57 years, since 1964, for the Summer Olympics to be held in Japan. Both the unprecedented postponement of the games because of the pandemic and an endless debate about whether they should be canceled make this global sporting spectacle unlike anything that has come before.

                                                                                                                                                                      

 

The Dong-A Ilbo (http://english.donga.com/)

Won Hee-ryong declares his presidential bid

Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong of the People Power Party declared Sunday his presidential bid as a candidate to “undo everything done under the Moon Jae-in administration.” The People Power Party is the opposition candidate and party in the presidential election,” he said in a press conference broadcasted on his YouTube channel ‘Won Hee-ryong TV’ on the same day. “We shouldn’t pick the candidates who failed in the last election again. We need to fight with the cleanest, youngest and most innovative candidate.” He set forth the ‘Audacious Recovery Project’ worth 100 trillion won as his core election pledge. “I will provide 50 trillion won to small business owners who took losses because of the pandemic on my first year in the office,” he said. “I will allocate 10 trillion won every year for five years.” He dismissed the ‘small government theory’ suggested within his party, saying, “The government will proactively support the socially vulnerable class that suffered in the shade of economic growth in various sectors such as housing, education and employment.

 

Seoul City to support production of prototype ‘upcycle’ products

The Seoul metropolitan government said Sunday that it will support production of prototype upcycle products for new entrepreneurs, companies and residents in the city. The program, which is managed by the Seoul New Cycle Plaza, is designed to support production of new upcycle products for individuals and companies that have good ideas on recycling and reusing of resources but cannot afford to produce pilot products. The city will support a total of 60 entities this year, up from five last year. The city’s support ranges from design of upcycle product products to production of their prototypes. College students, new entrepreneurs, and new undertakings (three years or younger since founding) that wish to participate in the assistance program, should download the application form at the Seoul New Cycle Plaza (www.seoulup.or.kr), and fill out and submit the application by email to D_factory@seouldesign.or.kr. Applications can also be submitted to “Dreaming Factory’” located on the first floor at the Seoul New Cycle Plaza. For inquires, please dial 02-2153-0415.

 

Sherman: U.S. will discuss with China over N. Korea policy

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the No. 2 diplomat in the U.S. State Department, who is currently visiting South Korea, met President Moon Jae-in on Thursday and stated that she will have a thorough discussion on the U.S. policy towards North Korea in a forthcoming visit to China. Washington and Beijing are known to have recently resumed regular high-level talks strictly focused on diplomatic relations, including concerns over North Korea, while keeping a distance from the recent contention over economic matters. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are scheduled to meet on Sunday and Monday. President Moon met Deputy Secretary Sherman at Cheong Wa Dae and requested that the U.S. play an active role to restart discussions between Washington and Pyongyang.

                                                                                                

 

TheKyungHyangShinmun (http://english.khan.co.kr/)
UNESCO Unanimously Adopts Resolution on Japan’s Distortion of Facts on Battleship Island

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee unanimously adopted a resolution stating that Japan failed to properly convey historical facts on Korean victims of forced labor on Battleship Island (Hashima Island). On July 22, Kyodo News covered the story also mentioning that the assessment included unusually strong expressions, such as “strongly regret,” aimed at the Japanese government. According to Kyodo News, in the resolution, the World Heritage Committee, asked the Japanese government to make improvements to the Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo, describing Battleship Island. Specifically, the committee pointed out that the Japanese government failed to sufficiently explain the fact that South Koreans were victims of forced labor and also failed to properly remember the victims.

 

Venerable Wolju, Former President of the Jogye Order Dies

Venerable Wolju, who served as the president of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, died on July 22. He was 87 when he died, 67 years after he was ordained a Buddhist monk. The Jogye Order announced that Ven. Wolju died at 9:45 a.m. this morning at Geumsansa Temple in Gimjae, Jeollabuk-do where he taught Zen meditation. Recently, the late monk had been hospitalized at Dongguk University Ilsan Medical Center receiving treatment for pneumonia. He was moved to Geumsansa Temple early this morning where he spent his last hours. Ven. Wolju was one of the figures representing the Buddhist circle. He stressed the social participation of Buddhism and was active in a number of civic groups including the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice. However, he was dismissed as the president of the House of Sharing, a shelter for comfort women victims in the Japanese military, last year following an incident that disclosed the misuse of donations as well as the abuse of the elderly women, casting a blot on his name.

 

Nothing Is Decided” Park Soo-hyun on the Japanese Press Coverage of a South Korea-Japan Summit on July 23

Park Soo-hyun, senior Cheongwadae secretary for public communication said, “Nothing has been decided yet,” on the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun report on July 19 claiming that President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga would hold the first in-person summit in Tokyo on July 23, when the Olympic Games open in Tokyo. This day, Park appeared on CBS radio’s Kim Hyun-jung’s News Show and said, “The position we have maintained so far is the strong regret we expressed on the Japanese government taking advantage of certain media outlets to announce a certain political position.” Park also said, “We cannot accept such handling of the issue (summit), slipping in their position like this,” and stressed, “We maintain our position that nothing has been decided.” Park stated that he received no official notice from the Japanese government in connection to the Yomiuri Shimbun report that the Japanese government planned to replace Hirohisa Soma, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, who made a controversial comment, a sexual remark concerning President Moon.

                                                                                                 

 

Maeil Business News Korea (http://www.pulsenews.co.kr/)

GM Korea, SK Innovation become latest to settle collective bargaining peacefully

The usual labor unrest in big South Korean companies has subsided this year in the face of common challenge of parts supply shortage and windfall of strong global demand amid ongoing Covid-19 environment. GM Korea Co., the Korean unit of General Motors, has become latest on the automaking scene after Hyundai Motor Co. to peacefully reach a provisional settlement in collective bargaining terms for this year. The two parties agreed on a 30,000 won ($26.13) increase in the base salary and payment of 4.5 million won incentives. For the workers in the Bupyeong second plant, they will join forces to secure a maximum allocation of work.

 

KSOE adds $1.36 bn LNG vessel orders, overachieves annual target

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) won a combined 1.56 trillion won ($1.36 billion) worth orders for seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from shippers in Liberia, Asia and Oceania, over-achieving this year’s full year order target of $15 billion. The shipbuilding holding entity of South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group in a regulatory filing said Friday that it landed a string of contracts to deliver seven LNG carriers for unidentified shippers in Liberia, Asia and Oceania regions for 1.56 trillion won. Each vessel willl be 290 meters long, 46 meters wide and 26 meters high.

 

Hyundai Motor Honorary Chairman inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Hyundai Motor Group Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo has been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame on Thursday at a celebration held at the ICON Convention Center in Detroit. He has become the first Korean to receive the honor and joined the ranks of auto industry legends including Henry Ford who received the honor in 1967, Thomas Edison in 1969, Karl Benz in 1984, Soichiro Honda in 1989 and Kiichiro Toyoda in 2018. The Automotive Hall of Fame was founded in 1939 to honor business leaders who have made a significant contribution to the global auto industry. The ceremony was attended by his son and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun.

                                                                                                                 

 

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