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Around this time of year, Korea turns to an especially wondrous place to visit with its clear, azure sky, crisp breeze, the magnificent foliage in the mountains.
This year, it seems that Korea will have a particularly memorable Autumn. Korea will host the G20 Seoul Summit on November 11 and 12 in Seoul.
G20 Seoul Summit Special 1
From the G7 to the G20
The G20 was formally established at the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting on 26 September 1999. The emergence of the G20 stemmed from the changing economic reality – a response both to the financial crises of the late 1990s and to a growing recognition that key emerging countries were not adequately included in the core of global economic discussion and governance.
So, the original G7 (composed of the US, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy) grew to the G20. At the third G20 summit held in Pittsburgh on September 24-25, 2009, the G20 was designated as the premier forum for international economic cooperation. Today, the G20 represents two thirds of the world’s population and nearly 88% of the world’s economy. Who are the G20 and their heads of state?
The G20 includes 19 countries and the European Union.
* G7 : US, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Italy * 4 Asian Countries : Republic of Korea, China, India, Indonesia * 3 Latin American Countries : Argentina, Brazil, Mexico * 4 European Countries : Russia, Turkey, Australia, the EU Chair * South Africa and Saudi Arabia
Who else will participate in the Seoul Summit in addition to the G20?
Korea will invite 5 non-member countries and 7 international organizations to the G20 Seoul Summit (scheduled for November 11-12) that have close relationships with the agendas of the summit.
The 5 non-members are Malawi, Vietnam, Spain, Singapore and Ethiopia, and the 7 international organizations include the United Nations, International Labor Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Trade Organization, and the Financial Stability Board.
Non-G20 member countries have been invited to previous G20 summits in order to enhance the effectiveness and representativeness of the meeting.
G20 Seoul Summit Special To be continued in the next issue...
It's Autumn !!! yea.... this is why I love Korea . We don't have Autumn in our country and I love the autum foliage. I can't wait to go on a trip to view and take pictures of Autumn colour.
Guksu!!! I didn't really like this Korean noodle called Guksu when I first came to Korea. When I lived in our University Dormitory, they always give Guksu on every Saturday or Sunday. It was my worst lunch ever on every Weekend. I couldn't imagine that I'll enjoy eating guksu ~~~~~~ :'(
But now I love Guk-su !! haha. :D After I tried guk-su in the market and some restaurant. I found out that the reason that made me hate guk-su were the cafeteria cooks !!! haha :D sorry.
I also love eating chili with Doenjang while eating Guksu . :D I think I became a real Korea after i lived in Kora for more than 3 years. I love Korean Foods and Guk-Su is also one of my favorite ones!!
There are two places I'd like to go in this Fall...
The 1st one is the 충청남도, 서천, 신성리 갈대밭 (영화 JSA 촬영지) [ Shin Sung Ri,a field of reeds located in SeoChun, ChungChung Nam-Do, South Korea. It is also the place where the famous Korea Movie JSA was shoot.
Do you love Korea Rice cake ?? There's A New Better Way to Make Korean Rice Cake
I love traditional Korean rice cakes (called “tteok”). Some people eat rice cakes in the morning as a grab-and-go breakfast while some others eat them to lose weight as a dietary food. These days, there are so many new kinds of rice cake, made from some unusual ingredients with new techniques.
I’d say the most appealing thing about rice cake is its texture, its soft chewiness. And thus, one of the most baffling things about tteok is that they lose its signature chewiness so fast. You buy some nice chunks of tteok in the evening on your way home from work, and the next morning you find them gone all hard and dry. Hard and dry, that’s not rice cake anymore. I bet you all have this sad experience.
And here is some good news for you! A new technique has been developed that can make tteok that preserves its chewiness for a long, long time.
No more hardened rice cake
Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry. With this new recipe that involves no chemical processing or additive whatsoever, you can now enjoy the soft chewiness of rice cake for a long, long time. They call it “miracle” rice cakes since if you store them in the fridge, once defrozen they will restore their original chewy texture but completely.
[Rice cake developed by Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA). RDA developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry.]
According to RDA, the soft, moist, chewy texture comes from beating rice cake a numerous number of times which produces microscopic, elaborate structures within. And RDA managed to convert this beating into an exacting, scientific process.
In Korea, rice cake is a “must” item at special feasts like holidays, birthdays, kick-off ceremonies etc. And since rice cakes turn hard and dry so easily, tteok manufactures, when there is a large order, have to wake up at the break of dawn and start making rice cake right on the day it’s needed; they can’t do it earlier. That sure is a tough labor. Also, rice cake’s poor durability and difficult storage has been detaining vitalization of the tteok industry. But now with the new technique, things will start looking up, including increased rice consumption.
Time for rice cake to go global
Now that we’re striving for globalization of Korean food, rice cake can be one of the key items, especially with the new technique. Compared to bread, rice cake is healthier, more digestible, and can fill up your stomach. With the new technique, RDA announced that they’re expecting to generate1.3 trillion won worth of economic value. They plan to get the technique (which they named “cool tteok recipe”) patented soon and start putting it to practical use.
Let’s look forward to days when rice cake will be more popular than bread!
The Public Procurement Service (PPS) is one of Korea’s central administrative bodies that provides public institutions with materials, facilities and services from supplying companies that they need. With the rapid spread of the Internet and Korea’s advanced level of Information Technology, the nation’s procurement system, also, is going online. Furthermore, a growing number of developing countries where issues of budget waste, lack of transparency and corruption are considerable are trying to import! and benchmark Korea’s online e-procurement syste.
Procurement officials overseas visit Korea to learn
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) conducted a training program “Public Procurement System Establishment” for 18 participants from 8 countries including Uzbekistan, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, and Uganda. From September 2 to 18, the participating officials took various courses on the strategy for establishing the e-Government and e-Procurement system.
Korea exports e-procurement system to Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s e-procurement system which opened in July 2009 was constructed by Samsung SDS for USD 8.3 million. Recently, a total of 9 systems were launched including the electronic bidding, security/authentication, electronic contracts, electronic payments, electronic documents, document distribution and others. Samsung will support the operation until December and then transfer the controls over to ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad).
With the introduction of the system, the Costa Rican government will be able to operate efficiently through integration, standardization of procurements. Also, it is expected to contribute to the transparency of procurement and the efficiency of the bidding companies.
Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica said, “I am very pleased because the e-procurement system improves the efficiency of public institutions and provides high-quality services of government agencies; it provides equal benefits to all the citizens.” She also thanked South Korea’s embassies and Samsung SDS for their efforts in making the successful launch.
Through the project to spread Korean online procurement system to foreign countries, Korea’s software and IT consulting companies are accumulating their know-how on overseas projects and improving their international competitiveness. Also, efforts are being made to make the Korean e-procurement system a global standard.
Not so many people are aware Korea has an advanced procurement system like this. Promoting it to the world must surely be a way to raise Korea’s brand value!
Around this time of year, Korea turns to an especially wondrous place to visit with its clear, azure sky, crisp breeze, the magnificent foliage in the mountains.
This year, it seems that Korea will have a particularly memorable Autumn. Korea will host the G20 Seoul Summit on November 11 and 12 in Seoul.
G20 Seoul Summit Special 1
From the G7 to the G20
The G20 was formally established at the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting on 26 September 1999. The emergence of the G20 stemmed from the changing economic reality – a response both to the financial crises of the late 1990s and to a growing recognition that key emerging countries were not adequately included in the core of global economic discussion and governance.
So, the original G7 (composed of the US, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy) grew to the G20. At the third G20 summit held in Pittsburgh on September 24-25, 2009, the G20 was designated as the premier forum for international economic cooperation. Today, the G20 represents two thirds of the world’s population and nearly 88% of the world’s economy. Who are the G20 and their heads of state?
The G20 includes 19 countries and the European Union.
* G7 : US, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Italy * 4 Asian Countries : Republic of Korea, China, India, Indonesia * 3 Latin American Countries : Argentina, Brazil, Mexico * 4 European Countries : Russia, Turkey, Australia, the EU Chair * South Africa and Saudi Arabia
Who else will participate in the Seoul Summit in addition to the G20?
Korea will invite 5 non-member countries and 7 international organizations to the G20 Seoul Summit (scheduled for November 11-12) that have close relationships with the agendas of the summit.
The 5 non-members are Malawi, Vietnam, Spain, Singapore and Ethiopia, and the 7 international organizations include the United Nations, International Labor Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Trade Organization, and the Financial Stability Board.
Non-G20 member countries have been invited to previous G20 summits in order to enhance the effectiveness and representativeness of the meeting.
G20 Seoul Summit Special To be continued in the next issue...
It's Autumn !!! yea.... this is why I love Korea . We don't have Autumn in our country and I love the autum foliage. I can't wait to go on a trip to view and take pictures of Autumn colour.
Guksu!!! I didn't really like this Korean noodle called Guksu when I first came to Korea. When I lived in our University Dormitory, they always give Guksu on every Saturday or Sunday. It was my worst lunch ever on every Weekend. I couldn't imagine that I'll enjoy eating guksu ~~~~~~ :'(
But now I love Guk-su !! haha. :D After I tried guk-su in the market and some restaurant. I found out that the reason that made me hate guk-su were the cafeteria cooks !!! haha :D sorry.
I also love eating chili with Doenjang while eating Guksu . :D I think I became a real Korea after i lived in Kora for more than 3 years. I love Korean Foods and Guk-Su is also one of my favorite ones!!
There are two places I'd like to go in this Fall...
The 1st one is the 충청남도, 서천, 신성리 갈대밭 (영화 JSA 촬영지) [ Shin Sung Ri,a field of reeds located in SeoChun, ChungChung Nam-Do, South Korea. It is also the place where the famous Korea Movie JSA was shoot.
Do you love Korea Rice cake ?? There's A New Better Way to Make Korean Rice Cake
I love traditional Korean rice cakes (called “tteok”). Some people eat rice cakes in the morning as a grab-and-go breakfast while some others eat them to lose weight as a dietary food. These days, there are so many new kinds of rice cake, made from some unusual ingredients with new techniques.
I’d say the most appealing thing about rice cake is its texture, its soft chewiness. And thus, one of the most baffling things about tteok is that they lose its signature chewiness so fast. You buy some nice chunks of tteok in the evening on your way home from work, and the next morning you find them gone all hard and dry. Hard and dry, that’s not rice cake anymore. I bet you all have this sad experience.
And here is some good news for you! A new technique has been developed that can make tteok that preserves its chewiness for a long, long time.
No more hardened rice cake
Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry. With this new recipe that involves no chemical processing or additive whatsoever, you can now enjoy the soft chewiness of rice cake for a long, long time. They call it “miracle” rice cakes since if you store them in the fridge, once defrozen they will restore their original chewy texture but completely.
[Rice cake developed by Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA). RDA developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry.]
According to RDA, the soft, moist, chewy texture comes from beating rice cake a numerous number of times which produces microscopic, elaborate structures within. And RDA managed to convert this beating into an exacting, scientific process.
In Korea, rice cake is a “must” item at special feasts like holidays, birthdays, kick-off ceremonies etc. And since rice cakes turn hard and dry so easily, tteok manufactures, when there is a large order, have to wake up at the break of dawn and start making rice cake right on the day it’s needed; they can’t do it earlier. That sure is a tough labor. Also, rice cake’s poor durability and difficult storage has been detaining vitalization of the tteok industry. But now with the new technique, things will start looking up, including increased rice consumption.
Time for rice cake to go global
Now that we’re striving for globalization of Korean food, rice cake can be one of the key items, especially with the new technique. Compared to bread, rice cake is healthier, more digestible, and can fill up your stomach. With the new technique, RDA announced that they’re expecting to generate1.3 trillion won worth of economic value. They plan to get the technique (which they named “cool tteok recipe”) patented soon and start putting it to practical use.
Let’s look forward to days when rice cake will be more popular than bread!
The Public Procurement Service (PPS) is one of Korea’s central administrative bodies that provides public institutions with materials, facilities and services from supplying companies that they need. With the rapid spread of the Internet and Korea’s advanced level of Information Technology, the nation’s procurement system, also, is going online. Furthermore, a growing number of developing countries where issues of budget waste, lack of transparency and corruption are considerable are trying to import! and benchmark Korea’s online e-procurement syste.
Procurement officials overseas visit Korea to learn
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) conducted a training program “Public Procurement System Establishment” for 18 participants from 8 countries including Uzbekistan, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, and Uganda. From September 2 to 18, the participating officials took various courses on the strategy for establishing the e-Government and e-Procurement system.
Korea exports e-procurement system to Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s e-procurement system which opened in July 2009 was constructed by Samsung SDS for USD 8.3 million. Recently, a total of 9 systems were launched including the electronic bidding, security/authentication, electronic contracts, electronic payments, electronic documents, document distribution and others. Samsung will support the operation until December and then transfer the controls over to ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad).
With the introduction of the system, the Costa Rican government will be able to operate efficiently through integration, standardization of procurements. Also, it is expected to contribute to the transparency of procurement and the efficiency of the bidding companies.
Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica said, “I am very pleased because the e-procurement system improves the efficiency of public institutions and provides high-quality services of government agencies; it provides equal benefits to all the citizens.” She also thanked South Korea’s embassies and Samsung SDS for their efforts in making the successful launch.
Through the project to spread Korean online procurement system to foreign countries, Korea’s software and IT consulting companies are accumulating their know-how on overseas projects and improving their international competitiveness. Also, efforts are being made to make the Korean e-procurement system a global standard.
Not so many people are aware Korea has an advanced procurement system like this. Promoting it to the world must surely be a way to raise Korea’s brand value!
Daegu in Motion ^^;
The G20 includes 19 countries and the European Union. .jpg)
Guksu!!! I didn't really like this Korean noodle called Guksu when I first came to Korea. When I lived in our University Dormitory, they always give Guksu on every Saturday or Sunday. It was my worst lunch ever on every Weekend. I couldn't imagine that I'll enjoy eating guksu ~~~~~~ :'( 
Welcome to my blog. Before anything else please follow these rules : No ripping, spamming, and any type of childish acts.
Respect is a must. Best-viewed with screen resolutions 1024x768. Enjoy your stay and have fun!
Hello~ There's nothing special about me. I'm just me. I love my family & friends. I live for today, not for tomorrow nor yesterday. 
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