BEIJING, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean embassy in Beijing has issued a safety warning to football fans planning to attend an upcoming World Cup qualifying match between the two countries, scheduled amid a wave of anti-Korean sentiment here over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. According to sources privy to the [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the North Korean ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, arrived in Beijing Tuesday in the first visit by a ranking official since Pyongyang’s defiant fourth nuclear test in January that soured bilateral relations. Ri arrived in the Chinese capital with a large entourage of officials [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean rice hit shelves in Beijing for the first time in history on Thursday to meet rising Chinese demand for Korean-made agricultural products and foodstuffs. China’s state-run agricultural trading company COFCO Corp. imported some 72 tons of South Korean rice in February and put it on sale in an upscale [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) - A new drama series, titled “Descendants of the Sun,” will be aired in South Korea and China in February, featuring top Korean actors and actresses, a local broadcaster said Tuesday. Featuring South Korean actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, the show will be based on a fictional country and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Top South Korean and Chinese singers performed in a joint concert in Beijing Wednesday, drawing more than a thousand Chinese fans, the South Korean organizer said. The annual pop concert, now in its 17th year, brought together 11 South Korean singers and groups as well as 11 Chinese performers [...]
Confidence Among CEOs Rises Despite Slowing Growth in China, US, Indonesia, Hong Kong-China, Singapore Top Investment Destinations BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Confidence among CEOs in Asia Pacific continues to get stronger, a new report by PwC finds. Forty-six percent of executives in the region now say they are “very confident” of growth in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics on October 31 opened its first official “Samsung Galaxy Life Store” at the Place, a popular shopping mall in Beijing, China. The tech giant’s flagship store will serve as a new type of marketing platform where Chinese consumers can order a cup of coffee while toying with [...]
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), in conjunction with the ISPOR Asia Consortium, and the China Pharmaceutical Association Pharmacoeconomics Society has organized the ISPOR 6th Asia-Pacific Conference, which will take place September 6-9, 2014 at the Beijing International Convention Center in Beijing, China. Presentations from this [...]