SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of all South Koreans believe that they should join the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, a survey showed Monday. The Korea Society Opinion Institute conducted a survey of 1,004 Koreans over 18 years of age, 50.9 percent of whom said the country should join [...]
CANBERRA/SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that South Korea is not considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics and has not been asked by any nation to do so. Moon addressed the issue for the first time after the United States announced last week that it will not send [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A domestic golf course has decided to ban the entry of Japanese cars starting from next year, becoming the first of its kind in South Korea. Anesville Country Club, located in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, posted a notice on its website on Nov. 1 indicating that it will ban [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the recent death of a restaurant owner who had a series of stressful interactions with a Coupang Eats customer asking for a refund, a number of reports have claimed that the service has abused food vendors. An online forum for small businesses in South Korea is becoming a [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is under fire for its poor working environment and its founder following a massive fire at one of the company’s warehouses. Some netizens are leading a boycott of Coupang by canceling their membership and deleting the Coupang app. ‘Leaving Coupang’ has become a real-time trend [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Tension between South Korea and China is escalating as the latter presents groundless claims that elements of the former’s inherent culture such as hanbok, kimchi and pansori originated in China. Against this backdrop, a new South Korean drama is under fire for featuring a string of scenes that have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s imports of Japanese beer plunged nearly 86 percent in 2020 due to a local boycott of goods from the neighboring country, data showed Thursday. Seoul brought in US$5.67 million worth of Japanese beer last year, down 85.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 70 percent of South Koreans participated in a nationwide boycott of Japan-made goods in one form or another amid an ongoing trade dispute between Seoul and Tokyo, a survey showed Tuesday. In a six-day survey by market researcher Embrain conducted on 1,000 adults below the age of 60 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of Japanese beer spiked in October from a year earlier due to stepped-up marketing activities amid a weaker local boycott of goods from the neighboring country, data showed Monday. Seoul brought in US$370,000 worth of Japanese beer in October, up a whopping 873.7 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade deficit with Japan edged up in the first 10 months of the year, data showed Thursday, as a local boycott of Japanese consumer goods shows signs of losing steam. Seoul posted a trade deficit of US$16.56 billion in the January-October period, compared with $16.42 billion during [...]