SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., the rolling stock unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said Friday it has delivered the first batch of trams to the city of Edmonton in Canada under a 2021 supply deal. The initial batch is part of a 218.8 billion-won (US$157.3 million) contract signed in [...]
SHANGHAI, Aug. 08, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (Junshi Biosciences, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced that the supplemental new drug application (“sNDA”) for toripalimab (trade name: TUOYI®) in combination with disitamab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate (“ADC”) [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Even after his bullpen blew late leads in two of the past three games in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), both resulting in crushing losses, Hanwha Eagles manager Kim Kyung-moon said Friday he has zero worries about his relief corps. “Our bullpen has been great all season, and that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Friday the government should consider raising the national terror alert level as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit draws near, in order to ensure the event is hosted successfully. According to his office, Kim made the remarks while presiding over a counter-terrorism commission meeting, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government on Friday delayed its decision on Google’s request to export high-precision map data overseas, the transport ministry said, amid pressure from Washington to resolve the issue, calling it a non-tariff barrier. In February, the U.S. tech giant submitted an application to the state-run National Geographic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy group NCT Wish will put out its third EP “Color” on Sept. 1, the group’s agency SM Entertainment said Friday. The album will feature seven tracks, including the title track “Color” that carries the group’s aspiration to fill the world with its own colors, according to the agency. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Chaeyoung of K-pop girl group TWICE will debut as a solo artist next month, her agency announced Friday. JYP Entertainment said she will release her first solo album in her 10-year career on Sept. 12 at 1 p.m. She will be the fourth member of the band to go [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2024 South Korean baseball MVP Kim Do-yeong will miss the rest of the regular season with his third hamstring injury of 2025, his club announced Friday. Kim’s Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) team, the Kia Tigers, said an MRI showed Friday that Kim had sustained damage to his left [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The lone LPGA tournament held in South Korea each fall will be played on a seaside course on the southern coast this year, the event’s organizers said Friday. The BMW Ladies Championship will take place at Pine Beach Golf Links in Haenam, South Jeolla Province, some 330 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — All regular-season games in South Korean baseball are not created equal, at least in the mind of LG Twins manager Youm Kyoung-youb ahead of an eagerly anticipated weekend series against the Hanwha Eagles. They are the two best teams in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) at the moment, with [...]