Turin, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – IVECO BUS, a brand of Iveco Group N.V. (MI: IVG), has signed a framework agreement with the Flemish government-owned public transport enterprise De Lijn for the sale of a first batch of 65 E-WAY full electric city buses and further batches up to a total of 500 vehicles. The vehicles will be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s veterans ministry has chosen a unified Belgium-Luxembourg battalion as next month’s Korean War hero for its contribution to key defense operations during the 1950-53 conflict, officials said Friday. The battalion consisted of 700 Belgian troops and 48 Luxembourg soldiers, who were mobilized to fight under the U.N. [...]
TORONTO and BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading diversified professional services and investment management company, Colliers (NASDAQ and TSX: CIGI), announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in BelSquare SRL (“Belsquare”), a leading Belgian commercial real estate advisor with offices in Brussels and Antwerp. Belsquare will be rebranded as Colliers and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Belgium on Friday (local time) hosted the Korean Culture Days festival at Brussels’ Brouckere Plaza in celebration of the 120th anniversary of Korea-Belgium diplomatic relations. On the first day of the festival, the K-pop World Festival: Belgium gathered 15 finalists to compete in K-pop [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Brussels (KCCB) said Tuesday it has kicked off an online program offering recitals of South Korean novels by the authors themselves. The program, named “Reading Theater,” plans to introduce short stories by four renowned Korean writers — Han Kang, Bae Su-ah, Kim Ae-ran and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — King Philippe of Belgium, who is on a state visit to South Korea, visited the World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon, on Wednesday. King Philippe, along with Belgian government officials, watched a taekwondo performance. After that, the king changed into a taekwondo uniform and smashed a pine board [...]
LIER, Belgium, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Manuport Logistics in Belgium is using the Descartes Verified Gross Mass™ (Descartes VGM™) solution to help its customers comply with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Remarks made by President Moon that the nation will only be nuclear power free in “at least 60 years” at a presidential press conference yesterday has garnered comparisons between South Korea’s nuclear power deactivation policy and other nations. Held to mark his 100th day in office, President Moon expressed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The European Union’s recent acknowledgement that large-scale shipments of eggs from Belgium and the Netherlands may have been contaminated by a pesticide has stores and markets rethinking the sales value of Belgian waffles. The pesticide, Fipronil, is believed to be hazardous to humans. So far, Germany, England, Sweden, Switzerland [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., the auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Wednesday that it has set up a new distribution center in Belgium in the latest efforts to reduce lead time for its customers. The 56,000 square-meter facility will also serve as a logistics hub for Britain, Germany, [...]