The Republic of Korea is one of Romania's important commercial and economic partner in South-Eastern Asia. The dynamics of commercial exchanges in 2023, especially exports, indicates a growing interest of Romanian companies in this market, said Iuliu Stocklosa, the president of Bucharest Chamber of Trade and Industry (CCIB). According to a CCIB press release, issued on Tuesday, Stocklosa met Min Seok Ko, Romania's honorary consul in Incheon, Korea, on his first visit in Romania, following his recent appointment in this position. “With a population of over 3 million inhabitants, the metropolitan city of Incheon is located in the north-western part of the country, neighboring Gyeonggi province and the capital city of Seoul. It is known as the main entrance point in the Republic of Korea because of Incheon international airport (the largest in the country) and Incheon port (the second largest after Busan). Incheon Free Zone has developed continuously lately, the big Korean companies (Samsung, LG, SK, etc) deciding to open production facilities in that area”, the press release shows. The honorary consul Ko said the aim of the visit was to prospect the Romanian market, being interested in identifying business opportunities especially in tourism, IC&C, electronic equipment, textiles, fod and wine. He intends to return to Romania in October or November with an economic mission including eight companies from Incheon area. On November 30, 2023, bilateral commercial exchanges reached 1.1 billion dollars, 2.5% over the level recorded in the same period of 2022. Romanian deliveries recorded 0.51 billion dollars (+27.3%), while imports from South Korea amounted to 590 million dollars (- 12.2%). According to the National Office of Trade Registrar (ONRC), on December 31, 2023, 288 companies with South Korean capital were registered with a social capital of 123.6 million dollars, 0.19% of all foreign investments, situating South Korea 30th among states investing in Romania.
ARTEX AG, a Liechtenstein-based company and sole shareholder of ARTEX MTF, a Lichtenstein-based regulated multilateral trading venue, has appointed Claudio Cisullo, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Swiss-based family office CC Trust Group AG, as non-executive Director, effective April 3rd, 2024. ARTEX AG was co-founded by H.S.H. Prince Wenceslas von Liechtenstein and Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi in […]
Prince Paul Phillippe of Romania, one of the country's notorious fugitives, was captured in Malta at a resort where he was on vacation. Paul of Romania has been on the run for nearly four years from the country, where he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison in the case regarding the […]
Hobița, the village of famous Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, is at the center of a new temporary exhibition at Art Safari in Bucharest, which opens on Wednesday, May 1, and will be on display until May 19. Art Safari also offers a family program during the Labor Day & Orthodox Easter mini-holiday, open daily from 12:00 […]
The first section of the Transapuseana, a road that crosses Romania's Apuseni Mountains, was recently inaugurated. The section consists of 43 kilometers of county road. The road (DJ 107I), initially known as the 'Transalpina of the Apuseni,' was later renamed Transapuseana. It is the largest investment on a county road in Romania, with a total […]
According to a report from Romania’s National Institute of Statistics, during the period 2020-2022, the proportion of Romanian companies that introduced new or improved products or business processes into the market was 8.8%, a decrease of 1.9% compared to 2018-2020. Business innovation refers to the wide range of activities that enterprises...
SD Worx, a leading European HR and payroll solutions provider, said that it completed the acquisition of Romanian Software SRL, the market leader in Romania for payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Romania thus becomes the 18th European country in which SD Worx has its own proprietary payroll & HR software. SD Worx announced […]
