Businesses are joining forces to reduce their carbon footprint.
At the Business Forum held online on Thursday night, Korea time, company leaders put their heads together in a bid to stimulate the spread of eco-friendly business models, and to improve sustainable management.
The Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chey Tae-won, proposed three mechanisms to accelerate green growth.
They are the measurement of respective firms environmental performance, incentives for businesses efforts toward sustainable governance and global collaboration.
(KOREAN ) Today I have three key words: measure, incentivize, and collaborate. Companies must address environmental issues with a strong sense of commitment. It ll be the new entrepreneurship that s demanded during the new era.
The number of couples getting hitched in South Korea in March this year, dropped to its lowest level on record for the month of March.
According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, the number of marriages dwindled 13.4 percent on-year, to over 16,700.
This is the lowest number for the month since related data was first compiled in 1981. The number of marriages in the January to March period also tumbled 17.6 percent, which is the steepest on-year fall since data was first compiled. The pandemic has accelerated the general trend of fewer marriages, on top of economic factors like poor job security and rising house prices.
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South Korea s ICT exports in April grew on-year for the 11th consecutive month, and reached the largest amount for any month of April, since records began in 1996.
According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Monday, ICT exports in April amounted to over 17 billion U.S. dollars, up 32.6 percent compared to the same period last year.
This is the steepest on-year gain in 11 years.
The expansion was mainly led by surging demand for semiconductors, displays, and mobile phones. Semiconductor exports rose on-year for the 10th month in a row in April, up almost 30 percent to 9.4 billion dollars.
Both memory chip and system semiconductor exports saw an increase.