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[국제]European Central Bank raises base rate by 0.5% despite banking sector turmoil…Feed, odds of a 0.25% hike next week are more than 80%

[앵커] The European Central Bank raised the benchmark interest rate by 0.5 percentage points despite the turmoil in the banking sector. After this announcement, US financial markets saw a more than 80% chance that the Fed would raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points next week. Reporter Kim Won-bae reports. [기자] The European […]

[국제]Establishment of a ‘Future Partnership Fund’ by the Korean and Japanese business community…Involvement of the defendant company is unknown

[앵커] An organization representing the Korean and Japanese business world has announced the creation of the Future Partnership Fund. The Japanese companies, who are the defendants in the lawsuit for compensation for forced labor during the Japanese occupation, did not clarify their position on whether or not to participate in the fund. This is the […]

[국제]Cigarette and barefoot work”… Dirty Chinese pickled food production again

The process of manufacturing pickled food in an unsanitary environment in China was exposed by local media. Guangdong TV reported that workers at the Songchai Shantou manufacturing plant were smoking and chopping pickled vegetables on a dirty floor, stepping on vegetables in pickle boxes with bare feet, and putting vegetables that fell on the floor […]

[정치]The ruling and opposition parties agree on ‘K-Chips Act’ to support semiconductors… 15% tax credit for large companies

[앵커] The ruling and opposition parties agreed to pass the so-called ‘K-Chips Act’ within the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in March, which would increase the tax credit rate for conglomerates on investment semiconductors to 15%. The bill also includes support measures for various national strategic technologies as well as semiconductors. This is reporter […]

[국제]China’s vicious “pro-Japan repercussions” comments… Even if North Korea fired an ICBM, it was blamed for South Korea-U.S. training

[앵커] While China was eager to have the summit between Korea and Japan, it kept it under control by pouring vicious words like ‘pro-Japanese repercussions’. On the other hand, in defending North Korea’s ICBM provocation on the day of the meeting, he unusually named and blamed the United States directly. This is Correspondent Kang Jeong-kyu […]