Ministry of Trade Industry and Resources

1st Vice Minister presides RE100 business conference

Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin presided the RE100 Business Conference on July 27 at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) to facilitate discussions on measures to effectively implement RE100, the global corporate renewable energy initiative for 100% renewable electricity.   In his opening message, Vice Minister Jang stated that “Korea’s renewable energy supply conditions are relatively unfavorable compared to other countries, so in the date2022-07-29

Minister Lee attends semiconductor industry conference

Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang attended the semiconductor industry conference at Dongjin Semichem plant in Gyeonggi-do on July 21 to announce the semiconductor superpower strategy and hold the industry-academia cooperation infrastructure MOU signing ceremony.   In his opening message, Minister Lee relayed that battery, display, future mobility, robot, bio and such promising new industries will be grouped together as “semiconductor-plus industry,” and that m date2022-07-27

Minister Lee attends ceremony marking world's 1st 3nm chip shipment

Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang attended the ceremony held at Samsung Electronics Hwaseong Campus on July 25 to mark the first shipment of 3-nanometer chips and congratulated the historic milestone, ensuring government support in line with the Ministry’s recently announced national semiconductor powerhouse strategy. Samsung Electronics’ accomplishment is meaningful in that the 3-nanometer semiconductor mass production is a global first, a step faster than even the date2022-07-26

1st Vice Minister attends Industrial Environment Improvement Support Center opening ceremony

Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin attended the opening ceremony of the Industrial Environment Improvement Support Center held in the Ochang Scientific Industrial Complex in Cheongju on July 18.   The Industrial Environment Improvement Support Center aims to support the fine dust reduction endeavors of Korean SMEs and middle-market companies, and train up personnel with technological prowess in areas concerning industrial environment. The Vice Minister stated in h date2022-07-20

1st Vice Minister attends Innovative Eco-Friendly Ship Tech Project Launch

Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin attended the launching ceremony for Innovative Technology Development Business Project for Eco-Friendly Ships at the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute (KOMERI) in Busan on July 15, alongside the Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) Vice Minister Song Sang-keun.   Vice Minister Jang delivered a congratulatory message and emphasized that Korea should sustain its status as shipbuilding powerhouse with future eco-friendly shipbuilding date2022-07-18

1st Vice Minister attends R&D Institutions' Conference

Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin attended the R&D Institutions’ Conference on July 11 at the Government Complex Sejong to discuss reorganization measures across all cycles of R&D process in accordance with the new regime’s industrial technology innovation strategy follow-up.   The Vice Minister delivered opening remarks, stating that they must “innovate the R&D process overall to create outcomes worthy of the KRW 30 trillion R&D date2022-07-13

MOTIE presents work report under new regime

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) presented the Ministry’s work report to President Yoon Suk-yeol on July 12, a five-year set of three-fold strategies containing 11 major project tasks. The three-fold strategies are in bold as follows. One, the Ministry will pursue a major industrial shift through growth-oriented strategy. The growth-oriented industrial strategy is built on four key aims. The first aim is to stimulate private investment through regulatory improvement, date2022-07-12

Korea reclaims world no.1 shipyard title in 4 years

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced on July 6 that South Korea’s shipbuilding industry achieved 1st place in terms of shipbuilding orders for the first half of 2022, winning 45.5 percent (9.79 million CGT) out of a total of 21.53 million CGT, the entire volume of shipbuilding orders worldwide for that period. In so doing, Korea has reclaimed top spot for H1 after previously claiminig it in 2018. When excluding delayed demand effect of 2021, H1 2022 results are the date2022-07-08

1st Vice Minister holds Industrial Digital Transformation Business Conference

Trade, Industry and Energy 1st Vice Minister Jang Young-jin presided the “Industrial Digital Transformation Business Conference” held July 5 at the LS Electric plant in Cheongju to discuss digital transitions across industry sectors and different businesses.   In his opening message, he urged large companies to “take charge in swiftly establishing their digital innovation ecosystem with middle-market companies and SMEs” and exchanged views regarding digital transfo date2022-07-06

"Special Act to Accelerate Industrial Digital Transformation" is enforced

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced plans to kick the Special Act to Accelerate Industrial Digital Transformation into high gear beginning July 5. The Act was legislated in January this year. This Act is meaningful in that it incorporates the utilization and protection principles concerning industrial data, rationale for comprehensive governmental support, inter-ministerial collaboration mechanism as well as in that it lays the legal grounds for pursuing industrial digi date2022-07-04