Lee vows efforts to foster shipping, port industries as strategic sectors

President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday pledged to foster shipping and port industries as national strategic sectors in an effort to establish unhindered maritime supply routes.

Lee unveiled the plan in a speech at a ceremony in Busan marking the country's Day of Seas, which falls on Sunday, reaffirming the government's plan to establish a global maritime hub in the city and surrounding areas.

"Under the understanding that the shipping industry is not merely a logistics sector but a core industry b ...