SEOUL/PARIS, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The vote for the host city of the 2030 World Expo is set to take place in Paris on Tuesday, with South Korea’s southeastern city of Busan making last-ditch efforts to pull off an upset in the competition against two other candidates. The host country will be selected by the member [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has been promoting Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo with displays in major European cities, company officials said Friday. Samsung recently installed new billboards advertising the southeastern port city’s attractions and displaying a message of support for Busan’s expo bid [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The top diplomats of South Korea, China and Japan will hold trilateral talks in the southeastern port city of Busan this weekend, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday, amid fresh tensions after North Korea’s launch of a military spy satellite. Foreign Minister Park Jin will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrived at a naval base in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, South Korea’s Navy said, hours after North Korea notified Japan of a plan to launch a space rocket in the coming days. The nuclear-powered vessel of Carrier Strike Group 1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — G-Star, South Korea’s biggest annual gaming trade show, was set to kick off in the southeastern port city of Busan on Thursday, its organizer said. A total of 1,037 companies from 42 countries will operate more than 3,320 booths at BEXCO until Sunday, making this year’s G-Star the biggest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A member each from leading K-pop groups (G)I-dle, aespa and Ive have joined forces for a collaborative single promoting Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Soyeon of (G)I-dle, Winter of aespa and Liz of Ive will drop “Nobody” on Thursday at 6 p.m., the single’s production company, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it has launched a campaign to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo at this week’s summit gathering of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. Hyundai said it will mobilize custom-designed units of its electrified Ioniq 5, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo is scheduled to visit France later this week to bolster South Korea’s bid for hosting the 2030 World Expo, just around two weeks before the crucial vote, his office said Friday. Han will depart for Paris on Sunday for a four-day trip in a last-minute [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of two British and four Colombian veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War will arrive in South Korea this week to be interred at a memorial cemetery in the southeastern city of Busan, Seoul’s veterans ministry said Tuesday. The remains of the veterans will arrive at Incheon International [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo visited Norway and Finland on the final legs of a five-nation tour aimed at rallying support for South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo, his office said Friday. Han arrived in Norway early Thursday (local time) after completing visits to Malawi, Togo and [...]