Germany is a country with advanced forest management skills, which also led to the notion of adopting sustainable social administration. The country already shaped its sustainable management system of its forestry in the 18th century and has ever since continued to maintain the ecological base and productivity of forests.As it takes more than 100 years for a tree to become valuable as a product, every forest must have an even distribution of young and old trees so that they can be produced, used

The state-run Industrial Bank of Korea launched a consulting service platform to support small firms and startups last week, bank officials said.IBK said it opened IBK ChangGongong at its Guro branch in southwestern Seoul on Oct. 1.The platform provides select startups with free offices, mentoring from experts, patent, tax and legal services, according to officials.In addition, they said, the bank will support their loans, investment relations and business networking. In the opening ceremony, IB

Seoul City is inviting citizens to share ideas on creating a “smarter city.”The Seoul International Digital Festival, organized by the Seoul Digital Foundation, will open on Oct. 27 at Gaepo Digital Innovation Park and Dongdaemun Digital Plaza for a five-day run, according to the city government on Friday.The third SIDiF features forums and contests held under the slogan “We Digitalize Seoul,” in an effort to share insights and discuss the use of digital technology to resolve urban problems.  (Y

South Korea’s leading tobacco maker KT&G has donated 100 million won ($88,635) to help recovery works in Indonesia, which is suffering from massive casualties and damage from an earthquake and tsunami, the firm said Thursday.The 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Indonesia days ago have resulted in at least 1,200 deaths and inflicted massive damage on the Sulawesi region.The donation by KT&G was gathered from its executives and employees through the “Sang Sang Fund,” in

Only 1 percent of domestic violence suspects are sentenced to a prison term in South Korea, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Lee Jae-jung of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea said the ratio is based on audit data from the National Police Agency. The data show that more than 160,000 suspects have been arrested on the charge of domestic violence in the past 3 1/2 years. (Yonhap)Lee, a member of the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee, said 164,020 suspects were arres

Seoul City is set to display pictures of North Korean architecture starting from Thursday.According to the city government, photographs of buildings in the North’s capital city of Pyongyang will be presented at the lobby of City Hall from Thursday. The exhibition is open to the public and will run through Oct. 19. (Yonhap)The exhibition will feature more than 40 pictures taken by the Guardian’s architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright, including high-rise apartments at Kwangbok Street bu

Japan’s storied trading houses are emerging from the shadow of billions of dollars of impairments they took after the financial crisis and the end of the commodity super-cycle.Stocks of the so-called sogo shosha, the groups that drove Japan’s postwar export success -- the likes of Itochu Corp., Marubeni Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. -- have rallied as much as 36 percent over the last year, outpacing the race to a three-decade high by the broad Topix Index. The trading companies’ free cash-flow leve

Why is it that in the last days of September, 10 years after the failure of Lehman Brothers, the world feels as if it is a dangerous place?President Trump’s remarkable speech to the United Nations this week was supposed to re-state the New Order that America has envisioned for the world. And all he got was a laugh. But it was an important speech, because it spelt out more clearly what everyone knew since January 2017 -- his administration is dismantling what America has stood for since World War

On the Bar is a regular column written by attorneys at Yoon & Yang LLC on various laws and regulations that affect running a business in Korea. The content provided here is general legal information. -- Ed.The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, popularly known as GDPR, was adopted in 2016 and took effect May 25, 2018. GDPR differs in many ways from Korean statutes such as the Personal Information Protection Act and tends to be vague about the tasks required of those wh

새로운 SBS 월화 드라마 ‘여우각시별’ 속 채수빈의 ’사무실 댄스‘가 눈길을 끌고 있다.　2일 오후 10시 방송된 ‘여우각시별’에선 인천공항 여객서비스팀에서 일하는 사원 한여름(채수빈 분)이 불법 브로커들이 금괴를 밀수하려던 걸 제보하고 보안팀으로부터 수고했다는 칭찬을 듣는다.　 (사진=SBS 캡쳐)이에 한여름은 아무도 없는 사무실로 돌아와 무아지경으로 기쁨의 댄스를 춘다. 　　한여름은 팀장 양서군 (김지수 분)이 문을 열고 들어오는 것도 모른 채 열정적인 춤사위를 펼친다.　(khnews@heraldcorp.com)

(Yonhap)진행자 : 배현정, Kevin Lee Selzer1.   Japan not budging on flag dispute: S. Korean ministry기사 요약 :이달 제주해군기지에서 열리는 국제관함식 해상사열 때 논란의 욱일승천기 게양을 자제해달라는 대한민국 정부 요청에 일본 정부가 답신하지 않은 것으로 전해졌다.아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638[1] The Japanese government is maintaining its plan to fly the controversial Rising Sun flag during an upcoming navy event in South Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday.*f