[The Korea Times] UK Chamber of Commerce chides unions European business leaders in Korea have asked the government to take steps to handle rising labor costs to help attract direct foreign investment. Read more
[Notice] Seoul City Town Hall Meeting The Seoul Metropolitan Government is preparing a town hall meeting for European residents in late February (the date and time to be announced). The Mayor of Seoul will preside over the meeting where participants can ask questions and raise issues to improve the city’s friendliness towards international residents. …
The election of the Board of Directors will be held on Monday, February 23 during the ECCK Annual General Meeting. Please refer to the attached for more information including respective deadlines. The “Candidacy Declaration / Recommendation Form” shall be used and submitted on or before 18:00 on January 30 to Bo Sun Kim, Deputy …
The ECCK had pleasure to invite President of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem on January 15, 2015. The Eurogroup is a forum of the Eurozone finance ministers, where member states coordinate the economic policies and promote financial stability of the Euro area. President Dijsselbloem is also the Finance Minister of the Netherlands and the Chairman of …
[JoongAng Daily] Eurogroup chief an advocate for structural reform Jeroen Dijsselbloem, finance minister of the Netherlands and president of Eurogroup, talked about the importance of upcoming structural reform in Europe during his two-day visit to Seoul, where that subject is at the top of the Park Geun-hye administration’s agenda. Read more
The ECCK welcomes a new staff member. Tomasz Wierzbowski joined the Chamber as of January 2, 2015. Tomasz will be leading an effort for industrial cooperation over Global Navigation Satellites Systems (GNSS) between the European Union and Korea. The ECCK has been promoting the GNSS downstream sector in Korea under the GNSS.asia project. In addition …