SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Karrot, a homegrown South Korean app that facilitates hyperlocal community interactions, is rapidly gaining traction in Canada, cracking the top 10 rankings on both the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store in the free social app category. According to industry sources on Friday, Karrot secured the No. 5 and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The top diplomats of South Korea and Indonesia have agreed to continue to work on the joint development of a fighter jet, a project in delay due to Jakarta’s suspended payment for its share, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. The discussion took place between Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and [...]
RICHMOND, Canada, Dec. 04 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, General Fusion announced that Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) has awarded CA$5 million to support research and development to advance the company’s Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration at its Richmond headquarters. Called LM26, this ground-breaking machine will progress major technical milestones required to commercialize zero-carbon fusion power [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to expand ties with Canada in the battery sector amid the U.S. protectionism policy that gives incentives to electric cars produced in North America, a senior trade official said Wednesday. Deputy Minister for Trade Yang Byeong-nae made the remark during his meeting in Seoul with his [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Sunday that the Canadian green hydrogen project Nujio’qonik, in which it holds a stake, has received approval from the Canadian provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador to utilize state-owned land for wind power generation. Canadian firm World Energy GH2 Inc., a leading [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold various cultural events in Canada this year to commemorate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, the culture ministry said Friday. The first event will be an exhibition, titled “Barrier Free,” slated for Sept. 5-29 at the Korean Cultural Center in Canada. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed his gratitude to a South Korean emergency firefighting team dispatched a month ago to assist the North American nation in dealing with raging wildfires. The Korea Disaster Relief Team, comprised of 152 workers, including firefighters, emergency workers and medical personnel, was sent [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The joint battery venture between LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) and Stellantis N.V. will receive up to C$15 billion (US$11.2 billion) in incentives for their electric vehicle battery plant under construction in Ontario, Canadian government officials have said. The announcement on Thursday (local time) came a day after LGES [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday decided to dispatch an emergency firefighting team to Canada to help the North American nation deal with raging wildfires across the country, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The decision to send the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) of 151 workers — including firefighters, emergency workers and [...]
Basseterre, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Government of St Kitts and Nevis is proud to announce that after sustained and meaningful dialogue between itself and the government of Canada, Kittians and Nevisians can now travel visa-free to Canada. The policy applies to St Kitts and Nevis nationals who have had a Canadian visa over [...]