The Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange appointed five senior global music and media executives as special members, the advisory body said Friday.
Singer Park Jin-young said Wednesday that he decided to accept the co-chair role of the Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange because he "wanted to do things for the K‑pop industry that our company cannot do."
A presidential committee for state affairs planning is set to launch Monday, tasked with outlining a five-year policy road map for the Lee Jae-myung government, officials said.
Korean companies pledged to invest some 65 trillion won ($48.9 billion) in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2027 as President Yoon Suk Yeol convened the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Committee on AI in Seoul on Thursday.
A special presidential committee on medical reform was launched on Thursday as medical professors' resignations began taking effect. However, representatives from doctors' groups did not respond to the government's call to join the inaugural meeting.
The leadership change in the Presidential Committee of Aging Society and Population Policy is seen as a significant overhaul pushed by the president's office to foster a more assertive approach to addressing the ongoing fertility crisis.
The Yoon Suk Yeol government revealed a "select and concentrate" strategy to tackle Korea's dismally low birth rates as the president presided over a meeting on responding to the fertility problem Tuesday afternoon.
If Korea is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, renewable energy will have to account for 56.6 percent to 70.8 percent of total energy use -- from roughly 6 percent today.
Many suspicions have arisen over the way a petition to re-investigate the Cheonan sinking was handled by the Moon Jae-in administration. On Friday, a presidential committee to shed light on the truth behind the tragic sinking in...
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