SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will lift a ban on direct flights from Britain on a limited basis from next month for the convenience of Korean residents living in the European nation, the transport ministry said Monday. South Korea has banned passenger flights arriving from Britain since Dec. 23 to block a [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Foundation has opened a new Korean language course at an university in Britain that uses the latest curriculum “Learn Korean with BTS” gaining massive popularity. The University of Sheffield’s Korean language course boasts 40 years of history. There are currently 130 students enrolled in the Korean language [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities said Tuesday that the ban on flights from Britain will be extended by one week again and arrivals from Brazil will have to prove that they are virus-free as the country stepped up measures against new coronavirus variants that are known to be more transmissible. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities on Monday confirmed the country’s first cases of a more transmissible variant from three arrivals from Britain, and decided to extend the suspension of flights from the European nation by one more week. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the three members [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it will suspend flights arriving from Britain until the end of this year over concerns about a new strain of the novel coronavirus. The country’s diplomatic missions in Britain will suspend issuing quarantine-waiver documents so as to place all arrivals from the European nation in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Influencers and members of the Vegan Society, Britain’s largest vegan community, made an appearance on Zoom, a videoconference solution, on Nov. 30 to participate in an online event hosted by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) for temple food. Ven. Jeong Kwan, a temple food expert in South Korea, participated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is expanding its partnership with BTS by providing sponsorship to the South Korean boy band’s global campaign in Britain, the company said Sunday. On Friday, BTS began to air a teaser of the K-pop band’s global campaign in London’s Piccadilly Circus aimed at informing its fans [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade ministry said Wednesday it will speed up efforts to clinch a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Britain amid rising woes over the country’s move toward exiting the European Union without an agreement on matters such as customs. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it has [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Britain will hold working-level talks next week to chart their future partnership after British parliamentarians’ vote this week on their government’s deal to leave the European Union (EU), an official at Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The director-general meeting is set for Jan. 23 after the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Samsung Bioepis Co. said Friday its biosimilar cancer drug Ontruzant has begun selling in Britain following approval from a European regulator. Global health care company MSD has begun distributing the biosimilar that references Switzerland-based Roche Holding’s Herceptin, also known as Trastuzumab, in the country, Samsung [...]