On July 24, the ECCK Logistics & Transport Committee held a logistics industrial seminar at the Seoul Square building. Under the theme of ‘Enabling technologies for supply chain traceability and information sharing: IoT, Big Data and Blockchain’, the day’s seminar welcomed a guest speaker, Dr Taesu Cheong who is a professor of School of Industrial …
*The following is the article published on July 24 in The Korea Herald from the round table meeting held earlier this month co-organized by the ECCK and The Korea Herald & The Investor. Global pharma firm leaders laud Korea’s clinical trial development South Korea has high potential to become a major part of the global …
*The following is the official statement from the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Korea on behalf of the EU. EU and Japan sign Economic Partnership Agreement Yesterday the European Union and Japan signed a deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, called the “Economic Partnership Agreement” (EPA). The trade agreement is the …
It is with great pleasure that ECCK hereby shares with you our second Quarterly Report. As true European advocacy organization, we have included information about EU and EFTA countries’ trade (Q1 2018) and investment (Q1 + Q2 2018). The purpose of the report is to provide a succinct overview of the most pertinent developments for …
On July 1 this year the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) celebrated its seventh anniversary. As a result of the various provisions of this FTA, which was ‘state-of-the-art’ at the time of its provisional application, trade in goods in 2017 has grown to EUR 100 billion (which is a remarkable growth of 47% compared to …
The official agreed minutes from the sixth annual EU-Korea Intellectual Property (IP) Dialogue was released on July 6. As provided for in the EU-Korea FTA, this year’s IP Dialogue took place on May 29 where the European Commission and Korean officials met to discuss on the recent IP legislative and policy developments from each party. The ECCK, …