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South Korea’s gross domestic product ranked 11th in the world in 2016, with its per capita income based on purchasing power remaining unchanged, data from the World Bank showed Wednesday.

A discreet euphoria - if the expression fits - was felt this Monday at the Directors Meeting of Cervantes Institute in Malaga, according to the assistant’s accounts. It happened when the Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, announced that they would do everything possible to increase the budget of the Institute.

Mr. Jaewon Lye, Managing Director of KOTRA, the commercial agency of the Korean Embassy in Spain, had a meeting with the members of the Spain-Korea Chamber of Commerce at the headquarters of the Secretary-General to talk about the opportunities of investment in South Korea. 

The President and CEO of LG Electronica Iberia , Jaime de Jaraiz and Enrique Cerezo , President of Atletico de Madrid Club , have reached an agreement , whereby LG Oled becomes the club´s technology supplier in the categories of Imagine and Sound for the seasons coming until 2020. 

Last  April, the company Korean Air inaugurated the first commercial flight between Barcelona and Seoul. 

SERNAUTO, the Spanish Association of Equipment and Components Manufacturers for Automotive and KOTRA, the Commercial Office of the Embassy of Korea, we invite you to attend the Spain-Korea Autoparts Opportunities Forum, which will take place at the NH Collection Eurobuilding Hotel in Madrid, next June 1, 2017.

 

South Korea will be the first country to offer 5G services due to a experimental phase taking take place in Pyeongchang, during the Winter Olimpic Games, in 2018. 

At the headquarters of the Spain-Korea Chamber of Commerce, a breakfast was held with Mr. José-Ramón Ferrandis Muñoz, head of the Africa area of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

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Minister De la Serna signs a memorandum of understanding with his Korean counterpart
The Asian country plans to run almost 2,000 kilometers of high-speed rail.
 
Spain takes positions on the infrastructure development plan that the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is going to deploy. 

Seoul, March 11 (Yonhap) - South Korea has qualified as the 23rd. The best country in the world, down four places compared to 2016, an annual survey of U.S. News & World Report showed last Wednesday.

The Seoul Stock Exchange advanced today as heavy tech heavyweight rises such as Samsung Electronics countered declines in China-exposed stocks as a result of Beijing's retaliation for the deployment of the THAAD anti-missile shield.

Chips, Semiconductors, cars and transatlantic boats are some of the main products that South Korea exports. But there is a new sector that is bidding up in the last years and has been converted in an Western trend: that is the Korean cosmetics.

The Republic of Korea is the first Asian country to have signed a trade agreement with the European Union. After some years of operation, the European Commission has launched a process to evaluate its results. The aim is to measure the effectiveness of its application to promote trade and bilateral investments and identify possible limitations to take into account in the future.

For this, it has published a public survey accessible at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EUKoreaFTAPublicConsultation. In case you have interests in that market, you can answer this questionnaire before next March 3.In case you have interests in that market, you can answer this questionnaire before next March 3.

 

We congratulate Mr. Francisco Herrero Maldonado, President of Lamaignere, for the recent opening of operations in Korea. After opening operations in Chile, the United States and Mexico, it now operates in the very important Asian country under the name of Lamaignere Cargo Korea Co. Ltd. Mr. Herrero Maldonado is a member, member of the Board of Directors and representative in Andalusia of the Chamber of Commerce Spain-Korea. He is also Honorary Consul of the Republic of Korea in Seville.

Busan, November 17 (Yonhap) - South Korea's biggest online gaming fair opened Thursday in the city of Busan, featuring a diverse range of mobile games, which featured virtual reality technology.

En el ojo de la tormenta

In its latest report on displaced persons in the world, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) set the number of forced displaced persons in 2015 at a record of 65.3 million.

According to the High Commissioner, around 12.4 million corresponded to new displaced persons during the last year, which means that every 24 people are forced to leave their homes (and one day has 1,440 minutes).

If the forced displaced constituted a state of their own, they would be the 21st largest nation on the planet. It is not difficult to imagine the extraordinary pain and suffering that is behind these numbers, the millions of lives interrupted, the families separated and the childhoods destroyed. As described by UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, the current global refugee crisis is not only a crisis of numbers, but also a crisis of solidarity.

Within the crisis of forced displacement, the refugee problem requires special and immediate attention from the global community. In general terms, a refugee is defined as a displaced person who has been forced to cross national borders and who can not return safely to his or her home for reasons of race, religion, belonging to a certain social group and political opinion. UNHCR reports that the total number of refugees has increased for the fifth consecutive year, bringing the figure at the end of 2015 to 21.3 million, the highest recorded to date.

For many countries in the northern hemisphere, the plight of the refugees was highlighted last year when Europe suddenly had to deal with an influx of refugee arrivals unprecedented in modern history. In 2015, more than one million people arrived in Europe, and although this year the movements seem to be decreasing, it does not seem reasonable to relax the entrances in the nearest future. The notable increase in the number of refugees that knocks on the doors of Europe is mainly due to the deteriorating situation that wars and conflicts are causing in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The vast majority of refugees who came to Europe by sea in 2015 came from one of these three countries. As a result, last year around 442,000 asylum applications were registered for the first time in Germany alone (more than double than in 2014), making it the country with the largest number of asylum applications in the world. Similarly, many other European countries reported huge annual increases in the number of applications, such as Finland (over nine times higher), Hungary (more than four times) or Austria (more than three times).

Wednesday October 5, 2016 was held at the official headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Madrid a meeting-discussion between the Vice Minister for Economic Affairs of South Korea, Mr. Lee Tae-Ho with various Spanish companies with business relations in China.

Last Wednesday, September 21, 2016, the show "More Close to Korea", of the company "Daejon Metropolitan Dance Theater", which, under the direction of Hyo Bun Kim, intends to transmit the essence, took place at the Rialto Theater in Madrid. of Korean culture to the rest of the world.

Organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Center in Spain, a traditional Korean dance and music show is offered in this space for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of cooperation between Korea and Spain in the fishing industry, a prelude to other cooperations, such as cultural, commercial or technological.

 

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They were the years of the first Industrial Revolution when Sir William Thomson, exceptional

British scientist, he elaborated daring theories on thermodynamics and electricity that contributed to give physics the shape we know today. However, also he lacked imagination when holding, between other ideas, that the radio had no future, that X-rays were a hoax or that it was impossible for one more device heavy that the air could fly. Today, with a new revolution industrial in budding, Sir William Thomson would have the same problems for predict the future. Few could you imagine just two decades that in 2015 they would exist in the world 7 trillion telephones mobile phones and that 3.2 billion of people would have access to Internet. We meet immersed in a deep digital transformation process that is changing form radical the way we relate in all fields, especially at the economic level and human.

Although the situations of departure and the sense of these transformations they vary almost at every moment, yes we can be sure of two key aspects: on the one hand, that digitization of economic, cultural, political life and social is a fact, and that those leave aside this new way of interrelation will be doomed to a kind of ostracism in a process inverse to the experienced during the period of globalization. And of another, that information technologiesand the -TIC- communication will play a key role in this process oftransformation, which some already call Industrial Revolution 4.0.

Korea was already aware of its importance when I tried to search

Korea was already conscious of the importance of ICT When I was looking an exit to the crisis of 1998

a way out of the crisis of 1998. The ICT sector played then a crucial role, to the point of that came to contribute to growth of GDP by 47% in 2000. Today,Korea is the fourth largest manufacturer in the world of ICT equipment, with close to 415 billion dollars, and the fourth power exporter. But in addition to be a fundamental pillar of your economy, ICTs have come to form integral part of their society and their culture. In 2015, the country occupied the first place in the development index of ICTs developed by the International Union o Telecommunications of the UN 98.5% of their homes are connected, and 83.6% of its poblation has regular access to Internet. 

The Korean Cultural Center hosts until September 30, in the Hanul Gallery of the Center of Madrid, the exhibition 'Earth, fire and nature' by South Korean artist Lee Seyong.

South Korea announced a plan to build over the next three years a network of "smart" highways adapted to electrical and automatic driving vehicles in a bid to ease congestion and reduce emissions.

The Korean Cultural Center presents the Permanent Exhibition of Traditional Crafts entitled "Korean Crafts and Women", which will remain open from June 3 to August 31, 2016 at the Han-ul Gallery of the Korean Cultural Center.

 

The Korean Cultural Center celebrates for the first time a Korean Documentary Exhibition in collaboration with the Cineteca of Madrid, from May 14 to 22, 2016. The inauguration will take place on Saturday the 14th at 6:00 pm at the Cineteca (Sala Borau) , Legazpi Square, 8).

During the show, two documentaries will be screened daily, Saturdays and Sundays 14-15 and May 21-22, so there will be two possibilities to watch each documentary. Four of the most recognized documentaries have been selected and show the creativity and vitality of the format in South Korea, with the intention of bringing Korean life and culture closer to Spanish viewers.

 

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the most important event in the world in terms of technologies for mobile telephony, being the place where big companies that provide mobile phone services and manufacturers meet to showcase their innovations. 

Amancio Ortega, who is the first private investor in Spain, started at the end of last year year as a great real estate investor in Asia with the acquisition of a building in Seul, for a price of 328 million euro. 

“On Saturday November 28th at the Teatro Monumental of Madrid, as in previous years, the XVI Autumn Concert of the Chamber Orchestra and the Millennium Vocal Group:

In the rectory of the University of Málaga was held last 27 and 28 October the Spain-Korea bilateral meeting which this year celebrates its tenth edition and whose motto was: "A partnership for a common future".

On November 4, was held in Madrid a conference intended for the official presentation of the project Algeciras - Korean Business Cluster, as tool with which to achieve strengthen and improve trade relations so much with Korea and Asia in general. 

Last September 30th, was held a lunch at the Spain- Korea Commerce Chamber headquarters, where the State Secretary for Telecommunications and the Information Society (SSTI), Mr. Victor Calvo- Sotelo Ibáñez Martín was attended as a guest, as well as other representatives of the leading Spanish and Korean companies associated to the Chamber including among them Repsol, Banco Santander, Samsung, Airbus Military, OHL, El Corte Inglés, Chopard, Lamaignere Cargo as well as the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Spain.

The Minister of Industry, José Manuel Soria, accompanied by the President of Repsol, Antonio Brufau and the President of the South Korean company SK, Tae Won Chey and the Ambassador of Korea in Spain, Park Hee-Kwon, discovered yesterday the commemorative plaque of the new lubricant bases plant of ILBOC in Cartagena in which both companies collaborate. Their products are destined, mainly, to the European market.

 

Dr. Park Hee-Kwon

Both individually as in the framework of our regional contexts, During the last years we have been attending a progressive and inexorable approach of Spain and Korea at all levels. A good example of this improvement relations is the constant increase of our commercial exchanges.

June 29.- The Minister of Strategy and Finance, Choi Kyung-hwan, attends, on June 29, 2015, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the signing ceremony of the founding act of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (BAII).

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Spain and the Republic of Korea, the show "Korean Rhapsody", which combined performances of traditional music and contemporary Korean dance, was presented at the Fernando de Rojas Theater Hall of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. . In the framework of the presentation of the formidable show, the Ambassador of Korea, Hon. Mr. Park Hee-kwon, highlighted the excellent relations of friendship and cooperation that exist between your country and Spain.

MADRID, 30 March (EUROPA PRESS) - Telefónica Open Future –an opening innovation network of the Spanish multinational—has singed this Monday a cooperation agreement with the telecommunications operator leader in South Korea, Korea Telecom, and with the government agency responsible for promoting innovation in that country, G-CEIC.

 

On March 12, the General Assembly of the Spain-Korea Chamber of Commerce met to review the activities carried out in 2014 and to plan its 2015 activities.

The meeting, which took place at the headquarters of one of its new partners, OHL, was attended by its two honorary presidents: the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Mr. Park, Hee-kwon and the Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of OHL, Mr. Josep Piqu Camps. The President of the Chamber, Mr. Javier Cremades, pointed out that at the beginning of the third year of activities, the Chamber also began a phase of expansion and consolidation through the implementation of the same in several autonomous communities.

Spain, a bridge to Latin America

mapa espana latinoamericaSpain has invested heavily in Latin America. During the last few decades, its companies have become some of the biggest investors in the continent, making Spain the most important investor in the region immediately after the United States. In addition, Spain has always been essential in the relations between Europe and Latin America.

For that reason, the Chamber will make one of its most important core activities the creation of a commercial and cultural links...

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