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, …
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new members of the ECCK! Habitat for Humanity Korea (USA) Ms. Joy Mihyang Sohn (National Director) www.habitat.or.kr Korn Ferry Hay Group (USA) Mrs. KyoungHee Oh Lawton (Managing Director) www.kornferry.com/haygroup
On June 28, Mr Alfonso Cebollero, Marine & Shipbuilding Committee Chairperson at the ECCK and North Asia Chief Regional Officer at SENER, spoke at the International Ballast Water Management Forum, organized by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) together with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) at the Hilton Busan. Entitled as ‘Challenges and Tasks …
On June 26, the ECCK organized an information session entitled ‘The 8 Techniques of Innovative Thinking’ at Grand Hyatt Seoul. For the day’s event, Mr Conrad Heraud, a president of Heraud Associates, came over from Japan to share his insights on some of the techniques to bring out innovative thinking. The 8 Techniques workshop has been …
Kindly be informed that the ECCK Seoul Office will be closing early at 12:00PM (KST) on Thursday, June 28 due to an off-site employees workshop. We will resume normal hours on Friday, June 29.