By Reporter Anna Kim Korean SME Ripresa, led by CEO Lee Kyungsun, which aims to capture the global market as a luxury brand along with France's Gensi Group, the world's top luxury good maker, has been working on technology development for golf shoes and casual shoes. The company that produces such top-class items is Korean SME Ripresa, a domestic startup founded in 2017 by developer Chairman Rhee jinsup, which has the world's only leather color and dye design technology. The company produces leather products such as golf shoes and leather shoes by dyeing and designing raw leather in color. "We
By Reporter Kayla lee Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin attended the Korea-Japan joint technology R&D project launching ceremony on June 14 in Seoul for strengthening both countries’ fine chemical technology competitiveness as bilateral economic and private sector exchanges are gaining momentum on the occasion of the Tokyo summit meeting in March. In the planning stages of this project, the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) conducted a technology demand survey on fine chemical-related domestic institutes to narrow down the prospective area
By Reporter Kayla lee Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Jin arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on June 1 for an official visit to the country. Foreign Minister Park had a bilateral meeting and a dinner with Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov, and had a broad exchange of views on key bilateral issues, regional affairs, and ways to work together in the international arena. Foreign Minister Park took note of the remarkable progress in the Korea-Uzbekistan relations for the past 30 years or so since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992, and suggested continuing to develop bilat
By Reporter Anna Kim Ambassador Theresa Dizon De Vega of the Republic of Philippines in Seoul hosted a gala reception on June 8 at the Grand Hyatt in Seoul celebrating the 125th anniversary of Independence from Spain. An unprecedentedly large number of Korean and international guests, especially the ambassadors with their spouses attended the reception in Seoul in recent years for a National Day reception in the wake of the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic in Korea and almost in all another countries of the world. Among the Korean guests were Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Youngsam and among th