Kindly be informed that the ECCK office will be closed on Thursday, June 27 due to an off-site staff workshop. We will resume normal hours on Friday, June 28.
In the morning of June 25, the ECCK hosted a tax seminar with KPMG Korea at Lotte Hotel Seoul. The seminar was led by KPMG Korea tax partners Tai-Joon Kim, Tae-Joo Kim and Yu-Jin Suh and they covered the most recent tax audit trends in the areas of tax, transfer pricing and customs with special …
On June 24, the ECCK hosted a seminar on polymer registration and exemption with the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic). The seminar was divided into three parts: In part one, Cynthia Mitchell from ExxonMobil informed the participants ‘how to identify polymers and harmonized polymer registration consistent with international trends. In part two, Willi Muenninghoff from …
The ECCK website will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on June 30 from 16:00 – 18:00. Please kindly understand that it won’t be accessible during this time period. Thank you for your cooperation.
On June 20, the ECCK organized an HR Forum on ‘2019 Regulatory Developments’ at WeWork Seomyeon for its Busan members. During the forum, Mr. Jungwoo Lee, partner from Bae, Kim & Lee shared his observation into regulatory development, including reduction of working hours, minimum wage increase and harassment in workplace. A particular focus was placed …
On June 20, the ECCK President Christoph Heider met with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Secretary General Henri Gétaz to discuss the EFTA-Korea free trade relations and the perspective of the Korean economy. The EFTA is the intergovernmental organisation of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. It was set up in 1960 by its then …