When a company in Illinois shipped 800 tons of green, stringy, wood fibers to South Korea on Tuesday, its foreign distributor was slammed with the usual $2,100 tariff.
On the morning late last year that North Korea announced the death of Kim Jong Il, the dictator who for 17 years had presided over the world’s most isolated regime, James (Chin-Kyung) Kim, a 76-year-old Korean-American educator, was in an interesting place: his office in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital. That alone is remarkable for a man who had in 1998 been a political prisoner of Kim Jong Il. But the fact that the institution James Kim created — the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) — is up and running in the heart of North Korea is a minor miracle.
March 05 2012
South Korea wins rights to explore UAE oil fields
Tagged Under : korea, South Korea, UAE
Two South Korean companies secured rights Monday to hunt for crude oil in three undeveloped oil fields in the United Arab Emirates, offering the energy-hungry Asian nation greater access to Mideast oil.The …
Qatar’s energy minister says one of the Gulf state’s gas supply firms expects to ship a record 8.3 million tons of liquefied natural gas to South Korea this year.
October 11 2011
KOGAS says Sept domestic gas sales up 15.8 pct y/y
Tagged Under : KOGAS, korea, Reuters South
SEOUL, Oct 11 (Reuters) – South Korea's state-run Korea GasCorp (KOGAS) said on Tuesday it had sold gasequivalent to 1.95 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG)domestically in September, up …
October 09 2011
S.Korea raises gas tariffs by 5.3 pct to help KOGAS
Tagged Under : KOGAS, korea, SEOUL
SEOUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) – South Korea raised domestic gasrates by 5.3 percent on average on Monday in a move to reflecthigher import costs of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and help cutlosses in state-run …
October 03 2011
Obama sends trade deals to Congress
Tagged Under : Congress Monday, korea, Panama, President Obama
President Obama sent trade deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama to Congress Monday afternoon, and the House is expected to vote on them as early as next week.
The House is moving to vote on an Obama administration priority this week, paving the way for trade deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama.
September 14 2011
TABLE-S.Korea’s Aug coal imports up 5 pct y/y
Tagged Under : korea, Reuters South, TABLE
SEOUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – South Korea's imports of coal inAugust rose 5 percent from a year earlier, customs data showed. Details of August imports are as follows (in tonnes/ in$/T): Aug 2011 Aug …
September 14 2011
S.Korea’s Aug coal imports up 5 pct yr/yr -Customs
Tagged Under : korea, Korea Aug, Korea Customs Service
SEOUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – South Korea's August coal importsrose 5 percent to 9.66 million tonnes from 9.18 million tonnes ayear earlier, data from the Korea Customs Service showed. Imports of liquefied …
