SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s standards agency on Thursday hosted a forum inviting business officials to discuss strategies for taking a lead in setting global technology standards, a move considered crucial to gaining and maintaining a technological gap with others. The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards hosted the event in Seoul, [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has sent its top envoy to the United States to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, according to officials Thursday. Ambassador Cho Hyun-dong’s visit to Trump’s home in Palm Beach follows Trump’s election win Wednesday. Cho plans to meet with people from Trump’s camp as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed the Ukrainian military’s first combat engagement with North Korean troops, saying it opened a new chapter of instability in the world. Zelenskyy, in a video address posted on the Ukrainian president’s official website Tuesday (local time), said, “The first battles with North Korean [...]
MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said Tuesday that North Korea’s missile tests were “legitimate” defensive measures in response to what he described as the United States’ “provocations,” Russia’s state-run news agency reported. Rudenko reiterated the stance of Russia’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, who has defended [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s unprecedented decision to include South Korea in its visa-free policy could redirect the travel patterns of young Korean tourists, who have recently favored Japan as their primary destination in Asia. According to aviation industry sources on November 4, China will implement a visa waiver program for nine countries, including [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of drug trafficking attempts into South Korea rose 24 percent during the first nine months of 2024 from a year earlier, the customs agency said Monday. A total of 623 cases of drug trafficking attempts were detected in the January-September period, up from 501 cases from the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Top industry officials of South Korea and Qatar agreed Monday to maintain strong cooperation on energy supplies amid geopolitical tensions and expand their ties into a wide range of energy and shipbuilding sectors, Seoul’s industry ministry said. South Korea’s Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun and Qatar’s Minister of State for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, the United States and Japan held combined air drills, involving at least one B-1B bomber, south of the Korean Peninsula on Sunday, the South’s military said, in a show of force after North Korea’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week. The trilateral drills took place [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Kyiv’s defense intelligence agency has said Russia appears to have deployed more than 7,000 North Korean soldiers, armed with AK-12 rifles, mortar rounds and other assault weapons, to areas near the border with Ukraine. South Korea and the West have warned that North Korean troops in Russia may soon [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s foreign minister, currently visiting Russia for talks, said the strategic value of her country’s relations with Russia holds greater importance in the severe international political landscape, the country’s state media reported Saturday. Choe Son-hui made the remarks during her speech at a ceremony unveiling a plaque honoring [...]