SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is likely to use his personal bulletproof special train when he travels to Beijing to attend China’s large-scale military parade next week, sources said Friday. Kim is scheduled to attend a high-profile military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday to mark the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will attend China’s large-scale military parade next week, marking his first trip to China in six years, and his first joint appearance with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, news reports said Thursday. China will hold a high-profile military parade Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China held a virtual meeting among relevant government officials Wednesday to discuss joint efforts to better respond to illegal fishing in South Korea’s territorial waters, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The meeting took place to assess recent related developments in China and the current status of illegal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik was officially invited by China to attend Beijing’s military parade marking the end of World War II next month, his office said Wednesday. “Woo received an official invitation from the Chinese government to attend the Victory Day event on Sept. 3,” the office said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will introduce a temporary visa waiver program for Chinese group tourists starting late September, as part of efforts to boost domestic spending and the tourism market, government officials said Wednesday. The visa-free entry will come into force from Sept. 29 to June 30 next year, following a [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea and China have called for a bilateral military friendship and unity in a banquet held in Pyongyang to celebrate the 98th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the North’s state media report showed Wednesday. China’s top envoy to Pyongyang, Wang Yajun, hosted the event at [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo had brief encounters with the top diplomats of China and Japan in Malaysia on Thursday, marking the first such in-person exchanges between senior diplomats of the three Asian neighbors since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government. Park was seen approaching [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo met with China’s top envoy to Seoul on Monday to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral cooperation, the foreign ministry said. The meeting took place in Seoul as Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Dai Bing paid a courtesy visit to congratulate Park on his appointment, [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The host country South Korea handled China 3-0 to open an East Asian men’s football tournament Monday. Lee Dong-gyeong, Joo Min-kyu and Kim Ju-sung scored a goal apiece as South Korea kicked off the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Football Championship with a comfortable win on [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As Squid Game Season 3 dominates global viewership charts, the series has once again sparked controversy in China, where Netflix is not officially available. Despite the platform’s absence, the latest season has garnered tens of thousands of reviews and ratings on Douban, China’s largest user-generated content site, pointing to [...]