The Fair Trade Commission announced the results of the ‘2025 Distribution Sector Supplier Survey’ conducted with major large-scale retailers.
The survey revealed that 89.0% of suppliers reported improved trading practices compared to the previous year, an increase of 3.5 percentage points.
Convenience stores had the highest improvement response rate at 92.8%, while online shopping malls had the lowest at 82.9%.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and Naver have launched the ‘Naver Pre-Entry Quarantine Information Service’ by integrating Q-CODE with Naver Pass.
This service automatically links Naver member information, allowing users to skip 6 out of 11 required fields when entering Q-CODE.
This reduces the time needed for entering quarantine information and simplifies the entry inspection process for international arrivals.
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment will hold a policy forum on battery recycling on December 16 in Pohang.
The forum aims to share the current status of major policies for promoting battery recycling and explore ways to foster the industry.
Over 100 experts will attend to present and discuss various topics.
In 2024, retirement pension funds increased by 12.9% from the previous year, reaching 431 trillion won.
The total number of businesses adopting the system rose by 1.3% to 442,000, and the number of enrolled workers increased by 2.9% to 7.354 million.
The number of individual retirement pension subscribers grew by 11.7%, and the number and amount of mid-term withdrawals increased by 4.3% and 12.1%, respectively.
The ‘Korea-China Local Administration Seminar’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will resume after 6 years.
This seminar aims to strengthen cooperation and discuss development plans for local administration between the two countries.
For more details, please refer to the attached document.
The Ministry of Interior and Safety announced that it will hold the ‘2025 Regional and Corporate Collaboration and Sisterhood Best Practices Conference and Awards Ceremony’ on December 15 at the Ministry’s main conference room.
The event aims to present and award the best practices of collaboration and sisterhood between regions and companies.
Detailed information can be found in the attached document.
