Friday, July 16, 2021

 

Round-up of important news from major Korean dailies and from international media today

 

The Korea Post (http://www.koreapost.com/)
Democratic Party strongly criticizes Choi Jae-hyung for his joining the PPP

With Choi Jae-hyung, former chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI), joining the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on July 15, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea strongly criticized, saying, "He has damaged political neutrality, which is the core value of democracy. It is a waste of time to criticize it." Some lawmakers of the Democratic Party even compared Choi to a pro-Japanese collaborator. Kim Jin-wook, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, said in a written briefing earlier in the day, "The resignation during the term of the BAI chairman and joining the political circle immediately left an anti-constitutional case undermining the BAI's political neutrality."

 

Amb. Nuaimi of UAE introduces episode in an interview with Arirang TV

A special television episode of "The Diplomat" was held on the Korean channel Arirang, which is shown in English, for His Excellency Abdulla Saif Al Nuaimi, UAE Ambassador to Seoul, which was broadcast on July 12, 2021. The episode dealt with the nature of bilateral relations between the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Korea. Korea in various important and common sectors between the two friendly countries, and the episode focused on the efforts of the UAE in confronting the issue of climate change. A video clip was also shown of His Excellency Abdullah bin Mohammed Balhaif Al Nuaimi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, in which he referred to the UAE's great efforts in the field of climate change and the policies, plans and programs adopted and implemented in the UAE in this aspect.

 

"I want to make elegant and beautiful Hanboks for foreign ladies and exports”

"I want to make elegant and beautiful hanboks and advance into the global market with them. For women in their 50s and older around the world, especially, I’d like to make and export elegant and beautiful hanboks, which look like the clothes worn by the queen,” said Kim Kwang-ja, CEO of Joeunnal Nunbusigae (Dazzling good day). In an interview with The Korea Post Media, CEO Kim said, "I like to make people, especially women, very pretty. Foreigners love Hanbok so much, but they don’t buy Hanbok and go back to their home countries with them, even though they often to buy Japanese kimono and Vietnamese Ao Dai. When I looked into the reason, I realized that Hanbok is inconvenient for daily life because it does not fit the foreign body type and foreigners have different lifestyles. Therefore, I tried to make Korea’s traditional Hanbok into a Western dress style with zippers, comfortable and elegant. I will make ladies of the world wearing Hanbok I made the empress."

 

                                                                                                              

 

KBS (http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/)

US Deputy Secretary to Visit S. Korea, Japan Next Week

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will reportedly visit South Korea next week for talks on regional and global issues. According to the U.S. State Department and Seoul's Foreign Ministry, Sherman will first fly to Japan next Wednesday before visiting South Korea. The department said on Thursday that Sherman, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mori Takeo and South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun will hold a joint meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday. It said the three sides will discuss cooperation on pressing shared challenges, including regional security issues such as North Korea.  Vice Minister Choi will reportedly visit Tokyo for the trilateral talks and hold a separate bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart during the trip.  Sherman will arrive in Seoul on Wednesday for a three-day visit and hold a meeting with Choi on Friday.

 

Pope Sends Letter of Gratitude to Cardinal Yeom for Vaccine Donation

Pope Francis has sent a letter to the archbishop of Seoul to express gratitude for contributing to the Vatican's move to offer COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries. The Archdiocese of Seoul said on Thursday that the pope sent the letter to Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung early last month.  In the letter, Pope Francis said that he received the offering that Yeom, on behalf of the Archdiocese of Seoul, sent to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the poor. The pope thanked the cardinal for his significant gesture of charity, adding that thanks to the donation, many at-need people around the world will be able to receive the vaccine through the work of the Office of Papal Charities.

 

Moon Holds Phone Talks with Vietnam's Top Leader

President Moon Jae-in had phone talks on Thursday with Vietnam's top leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation. The phone talks marked the first summit-level discussions between the two nations since Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Trong was re-elected for a third term in January. According to Seoul's presidential office, the two leaders agreed to cooperate on the development of the "strategic cooperative partnership" between their nations as they will commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations next year.

Moon reportedly expressed hope for close cooperation to increase the bilateral trade volume to at least 100 billion dollars by 2023. In response, Trong said Vietnam will expand investment in South Korea to achieve the goal.

                                                                                                                

 

Yonhap (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr)

Influx of vacationers to beaches, mountains feared to fuel spread of COVID-19

Politics 16:43 July 15, 2021

Local governments in charge of antivirus measures at popular summer vacation destinations are on high alert for a massive influx of vacationers from the greater Seoul area and other regions hit by a surge of COVID-19 cases. South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases have been in excess of 1,500 in recent days, with the capital area accounting for approximately three-fourths of the total. Fearing that increased tourist arrivals at famous beaches and mountains nationwide will further fuel the spread of the coronavirus, local governments are moving to beef up their quarantine efforts.

 

Ex-chief state auditor joins main opposition party in apparent bid to run for presidency

A former head of the state audit agency joined the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on Thursday in a move widely seen as a step toward running for the presidency. Choe Jae-hyeong, the former chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI), expressed his intention to join the biggest conservative party during his meeting with party Chairman Lee Jun-seok earlier in the day and officially became a member in a following ceremony. The move came less than one month after Choe stepped down as BAI chief in late June, six months ahead of the end of his term, hinting at his ambition to run in the March 9 presidential election.


Cheonghae anti-piracy unit off Africa reports 6 COVID-19 cases

Six service members aboard a South Korean destroyer on anti-piracy missions off the coast of Africa have tested positive for the coronavirus, the defense ministry said Thursday, sparking fears of collective infections among some 300 people living on the same vessel. President Moon Jae-in ordered the mobilization of an aerial tanker to provide swift medical support to the infected troops and to bring them back home without delay if they cannot receive necessary treatment, the presidential office said. The infections appeared to have begun after the 4,400-ton Munmu the Great carrying the Cheonghae Unit was docked at a nearby port from June 28-July 1 to load supplies, and poor initial response to suspicious symptoms could have spread the virus, according to a ministry briefing.

 

 

                                                                                   

 

The Korea Herald (http://www.koreaherald.com)

EU climate package stirs Korean industry

The European Union’s sweeping plans, announced Wednesday, to cut emissions are expected to hurt South Korea’s steel and other carbon-intensive industries, experts and industry officials said Thursday. The EU announced a comprehensive climate package that revolves around three key proposals: imposing tariffs on carbon-intensive imports starting 2026; banning the sales of cars running on fossil fuels starting 2035; and forcing clean fuel in the aviation and maritime sectors. What caught the most attention here was the tariff plan, more commonly referred to as the carbon border tax. The Federation of Korean Industries, a major business lobby, warned of its impact on local firms, saying that “the policy is practically a tariff hike on imports.”

 

BOK keeps rate at record-low amid 4th wave of virus outbreaks

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday kept its key policy rate anchored at record-low of 0.5 percent, with the latest wave of COVID-19 infections dampening its path to a hawkish policy. While some experts have said that a rate hike may come as early as this month, the widely-expected rate freeze decision came during this year’s fifth rate-setting meeting. The Bank of Korea has been keeping the rate at 0.5 percent since May 2020 after slashing it by a combined 0.75 percentage point in the March-May period last year.

 

Eximbank extends $600 million to Tunisia for digital infra project

The state-run Export-Import Bank of Korea said Thursday it had agreed to extend a $600 million loan to Tunisia to support the North African country’s digital infrastructure development projects. Tunisia plans to use the fund to digitize some 4.5 million maps and land-related documents to build a database and develop a comprehensive land information management system there. We expect that our support for Tunisia’s land management infrastructure innovation, which is the country’s top-priority national project, will play a role of catalyst for Africa’s digital transformation,” Bang Moon-kyu, chairman and president of Eximbank, said during an online ceremony after signing the loan agreement with Tunisian Finance Minister Ali Kooli on Wednesday.

 

                                                                                    

 

The Korea Times (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr)

COVID-19 healthcare workers struggling with burnout and fatigue

As Korea grapples with a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in patients and long lines at testing centers are taking a toll on frontline medical workers who are suffering from burnout and exhaustion. During the past 18 months since the first coronavirus outbreak here in January of last year, healthcare workers have been hailed as heroes for their sacrifices and commitment, but little has been done to address their poor working conditions and heavy workloads. Medical personnel who have been working extra hours and many nights, risking their own health at COVID-19 treatment facilities, have been further put upon by a lack of manpower and substandard medical equipment, according to the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMWU). The union released a survey of its members working at 102 medical institutions nationwide, June 22.

 

What happens to clothing when it is thrown away?

When we throw away clothes that we don't need into the clothing donation bin, we believe we are helping someone in need. Those clothes, however, are more likely to end up contaminating the land and water of developing countries across the ocean, a documentary TV program showed. According to KBS's "Environment Special" that aired on July 1, 100 billion pieces of clothing are produced each year worldwide. Among them, 33 percent are thrown away in the very same year that they are produced. The documentary shocked viewers by showing a mountain of used clothes in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Fifteen million pieces of used clothing are imported each week into this African country, which has a population of 30 million. Some of them are traded at a used goods market, but the rest are simply dumped, piling up to make a mountain and blocking rivers. In an interview with the Hankook Ilbo, sister paper of The Korea Times, Kim Ga-ram, who produced this documentary, said that she got curious about where all those clothes go while she was decluttering her home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Biden looks to force open internet and offers vaccines to 'failed' Cuba

President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States was considering ways to force open internet access in Cuba, which he called a "failed state" as the communist leadership faces down the biggest protests in memory. In a reversal from his stance as a candidate, Biden also made clear he was in no rush to let Cuban-Americans send home remittances, which could ease the economic pressure that contributed to the outpouring of anger on the streets Sunday. Biden, who has made the promotion of democratic values a key priority, said the United States was looking at how to help Cubans circumvent internet restrictions imposed by the government. "Cuba is, unfortunately, a failed state and repressing their citizens," Biden said. "They've cut off access to the internet. We're considering whether we have the technological ability to reinstate that access," he told a joint White House news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

                                                                                                               

 

Chosun Ilbo (http://english.chosun.com)
Samsung, LG Plants Suffer in Vietnam COVID Surge

Korean companies like Samsung and LG are on edge amid a surge of coronavirus infections in Vietnam, where they have vital production facilities. The Vietnamese government has imposed a draconian lockdown after daily infections surged from the single digits early this month to over 2,000.

 

Samsung was recently ordered by the Ho Chi Minh City government to seal its factory in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park and set up living quarters for staff on the premises, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The municipal government decided to put the entire industrial park in total lockdown as 750 workers tested positive for coronavirus recently, including 48 at Samsung's factory. Samsung continues to operate production lines while isolating patients in a separate facility. Staff will be housed in a vast tent, but it will not be possible to accommodate all 7,000 of the workers, many of whom commute from nearby villages, so production is bound to suffer. The factory in Ho Chi Minh has an annual capacity of 19 million TVs and other home appliances. Since completion in 2016 it has been Samsung's key production base in Southeast Asia.

 

Gov't Silent over Vaccination Debacle

There was widespread public anger this week after the government belatedly admitted a shortage of vaccines for the over-55s and the inoculation schedule was pushed back yet again. Since online bookings for jabs were abruptly halted on Monday and equally abruptly resumed on Wednesday, the government has retreated into sullen silence. Responding to accusations of lying or deliberate secrecy, the government merely put out a statement saying, "There are no snags in vaccine supplies." It refused to comment further, citing alleged confidentiality agreements with drug makers. So far only 15.6 million people or 30.6 percent of the population have had at least their first jab, almost unchanged from 29.8 percent at the end of June. But since then infections have spiked to over 1,600 a day and Seoul has gone into even tougher lockdown.

 

1 in 3 Office Workers Complain of Bullying

As many as one-third of office workers have suffered bullying in the workplace, a study suggests. Friday marks the second anniversary of tougher laws prohibiting workplace bullying, but statistics show little improvement. A civic group polled 1,000 office workers from June 10-17, and 32.9 percent said they suffered office bullying over the past year. The results were not dramatically lower than in March this year (32.5 percent), last December (34.1 percent) and last September (36 percent). Smaller companies had more office bullies with a whopping 52.1 percent of staff saying they had suffered, and the problem was more common in low-paying jobs (37.5 percent) and among workers in their 20s (39.3 percent). Some 44.1 percent of perpetrators are senior workers or managers, though 23.4 percent were executives and 21 percent peers. The study also showed that 68.4 percent of victims responded by ignoring the offenses, while 30.7 percent said they protested and 19.5 percent quit.

 

                                                                                                

 

HanKyoReh Shinmun (http://english.hani.co.kr)
US Strategic Commander in charge of nuclear weapons visits S. Korea, Japan

The admiral in charge of the US nuclear arsenal has paid back-to-back visits to Japan and South Korea. Officials from the two countries would only say that Adm. Charles Richard, commander of US Strategic Command, had “exchanged opinions about the security situation in the region” without disclosing the exact purpose of his visit. Defense Minister Suh Wook received Adm. Charles Richard on the morning of July 14, and the two men traded opinions about the alliance’s stance on deterrence and the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and in the region,” South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense said in a press release on Wednesday. During their meeting, Suh “emphasized the importance of maintaining close cooperation between military officials from our two countries to counter the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles,” while Richard “emphasized the US Strategic Commands perfect readiness regarding the pledge of extended deterrence that US President Joe Biden reconfirmed to South Korea in their summit this past May.”

 

We mustn't allow a foreign policy amateur to become president

A few years ago, I was taken aback to see Seoul mayor Park Won-soon riding a bus around the city while sitting next to a "comfort woman" statue. That came very natural for Park, who had served as a prosecutor in the international war crimes tribunal on the issue of the comfort women (who served as sex slaves for Japan's imperial military machine), but, for some reason, it didn't seem to fit Park's status as mayor of Seoul, a major global city. It seemed to me that the leader of a nonprofit and the mayor of Seoul ought to take different approaches, even if they're pursuing the same goal. Despite being a highly qualified leader, I got the impression that Park was less surefooted about diplomacy.

A similar flippancy can be seen in the likely candidates for next year's presidential election as they gear up for their campaigns. They're engaging in a myopic and anachronistic debate about issues of history and foreign policy that could determine the country's fate.

 

Ex-Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon beats Yoon Seok-youl in latest matchup poll

A new poll of presidential hopefuls finds less support for Yoon Seok-youl, former chief prosecutor of South Korea, and more support for Lee Nak-yon, former head of the Democratic Party. This was the first poll that showed Lee ahead of Yoon in a hypothetical matchup. A presidential suitability poll of 1,011 adult voters around the country conducted by WinGKorea Consulting on Friday and Saturday found that Yoon (26.4%) and Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung (25.8%) were neck and neck. The poll, commissioned by Asia Business Daily, had a 95% confidence level with a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Yoon’s support was down 4.3 points from two weeks before, while Lee Jae-myung edged down 0.8 points. But Lee Nak-yon’s support surged 6.9 points from the previous poll to 16.4%.

                                                                                    

 

The Dong-A Ilbo (http://english.donga.com/)

Athletes award themselves their hard-earned medals in Tokyo

The Tokyo Olympics will skip one of the most touching moments where medalists are awarded medals on the podium and shake their hands with other awardees to exchange encouragement and support. Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee president, said upon his arrival in Japan that how medals are delivered during award ceremonies will change to prevent against the spread of COVID-19, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday. Unlike the previous Olympic Games where medals are put around the neck of winners by IOC personnel or executives of international associations for related sports, awardees in the Tokyo Olympics are requested to grab a medal on their own. Mr. Bach explained that medals are put on the tray by assistants with a pair of sterilized gloves on and awardees will be the first one who grab their medals.

 

Italy football team wins European Championship

Italy’s football team returned home on Tuesday after winning the European Championship in 53 years. The team was welcomed at Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport by a banner that said, “Grazie Azzurri.” Captain Giorgio Chiellini and coach Roberto Mancini hoisted the trophy high over their heads and cheered at more than 200 people that had waited for them from early in the morning. The team marched the streets of Rome around the Piazza Venezia on a double-decker. Some players hoisted the trophy and waved at the crowd wearing a crown that symbolized victory. Many Italians came out to the streets despite the pandemic. They sang songs and applauded the football team.  

 

Six members of Cheonghae Unit infected with COVID-19

COVID-19 cases were reported in the 34th contingent of the Cheonghae Unit, Munmu the Great (DDH-976), off Gulf of Aden on an anti-piracy mission since March. There are growing concerns about mass infection as some 300 service members aboard departed, not vaccinated, and as many as 80 members show COVID-19 symptoms. The military has come under fire for neglecting the safety of military troops serving their country far away from home by failing to take proper quarantine measures against COVID-19 before their departure. Six service members among those who exhibited cold symptoms on Saturday in the Cheonghae Unit off Africa took PCR tests on Tuesday and tested positive for the virus on Thursday, said the military. On Tuesday night, one military officer showed pneumonia symptoms, sent to a local hospital.

 

                                                                                                 

 

TheKyungHyangShinmun (http://english.khan.co.kr/)
Number of COVID-19 Cases Reaches 1,600 for the Second Day: Number of Cases Outside the Greater Seoul Area Surpasses 400 for the First Time

The Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that as of midnight July 15, they have confirmed 1,600 new cases of COVID-19 from the previous day. This is the second largest number of cases since the COVID outbreak in South Korea, following the previous day’s number of 1,615 cases. Among the new cases, 1,555 were transmitted in the local community, while 45 were from overseas. A regional analysis showed that 70.6% (1,098) of the cases were confirmed in the Seoul metropolitan area--518 in Seoul, 491 in Gyeonggi, and 89 in Incheon. Outside the capital area, authorities confirmed 63 cases in Busan, 50 in Daegu, 21 in Gwangju, 59 in Daejeon, 18 in Ulsan, 2 in Sejong, 24 in Gangwon, 12 in Chungcheongbuk-do, 51 in Chungcheongnam-do, 23 in Jeollabuk-do, 26 in Jeollanam-do, 13 in Gyeongsangbuk-do, 86 in Gyeongsangnam-do, and 9 in Jeju.

 

Yoon Seok-youl’s Approval Rating Falls Below 30%, While Lee Jae-myung and Lee Nak-yon’s Ratings Rise the Steepest This Year: What about the Gap Between the Candidates?

Mixed forecasts have been made for major presidential candidates who are ahead in the approval ratings. Yoon Seok-youl, former prosecutor general who was ahead among opposition candidates, saw his support fall below 30% in just four months, while support for Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung and former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea Lee Nak-yon is making a record-breaking climb this year, according to a recent survey. In the case of a two-way race, the gap between the support for each candidate was within the margin of error. On July 15, the survey firm Realmeter announced the results of a survey on the public’s preference in future presidential candidates. The company conducted a survey of 2,036 respondents nationwide in the second week of July (12-13) upon request from OhmyNews. The results showed that 27.8% supported former Prosecutor General Yoon, 26.4% Governor Lee, and 15.6% former ruling party leader Lee.

 

A Large Lavatory with a Structure Similar to the Modern Septic Tank Discovered in Gyeongbokgung Palace

An excavation team discovered the ruins of a large lavatory that had a facility similar to a septic tank.

On July 8, the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, an affiliate of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea announced, “We excavated the ruins of a lavatory located south of Donggung (Palace of the Crown Prince) in Gyeongbokgung Palace. This is the first time that we have discovered the remains of a lavatory inside a palace.” The lavatory was a stone structure in the shape of a narrow rectangular hole 10.4 m long, 1.4 m wide, and 1.8 m deep. From the floor to the walls, everything was made of stone. There was one inlet through which water flowed into this facility and two outlets through which the water flowed out. The inlet in the north was higher than the outlets.

                                                                                   

 

Maeil Business News Korea (http://www.pulsenews.co.kr/)

BOK reaffirms rate hike need despite worst virus hit after holding rate at 0.5%

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday reaffirmed its hawkish stance on monetary policy, citing the solid recovery and growing financial imbalances despite the country’s worst outbreak of Covid-19 that led the bank to hold the rate at the record low of 0.5 percent on the same day for more than a year. Almost every board member agreed that it was time to place out utmost priority in addressing financial imbalances,” Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol said in a news conference held after the bank left the policy rate at 0.5 percent unchanged at a monetary policy meeting on Thursday morning, adding that board member Koh Seung-beom, out of the seven members at the central bank board, raised a dissenting voice, recommending a 25 basis point hike.

 

Hana Bank accepts FSS recommendation on Lime fund compensation rates

KEB Hana Bank has accepted a proposal from South Korea’s financial watchdog to cover up to 80 percent of investors’ losses from investments in scandal-ridden Lime fund products. KEB Hana announced Thursday that it has decided to adopt the Financial Supervisory Service’s recommendation to cover 40 to 80 percent of investor losses incurred in relation to its mis-selling of the problematic fund products for now-defunct Lime Asset Management. On Wednesday, the FSS dispute settlement committee concluded its probe into Hana’s mis-selling of Lime funds in one filed case and announced the bank should compensate the individual investor at 65 percent of his initial investment.

 

Samsung Elec supplying automotive chips to Volkswagen

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. is rapidly expanding presence in the automotive chip market after adding another major global finished car brand Volkswagen to the list of its automotive chip customers on top of Audi cars. According to multiple sources from the manufacturing industry on Wednesday, Samsung Electronics’ Samsung System LSI business has been supplying its latest system chip Exynos Auto for Volkswagen models for in-vehicle information and entertainment systems since early this year. Exynos Auto is Samsung Electronics’ standalone System-on-Chip component and automotive infotainment application. The supply comes as Samsung Electronics is putting out efforts to nurture vehicle-use chips as one of its future growth engines..

 

                                                                                                                  

 

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