SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s reopening from COVID-19 restrictions and its economic recovery are expected to help boost South Korea’s economic growth and exports, which are highly related to the neighboring country, a report showed Sunday. According to the report published by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), global institutions have predicted that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will resume issuing short-term visas for travelers from China this weekend, a ranking government official said Friday. The government made the decision to restart issuing visas Saturday as China’s COVID-19 infection wave has peaked and begun to subside, Kim Seong-ho, an interior ministry official, said during a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — China is now permitting its citizens to go on group tours overseas for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. South Korea, however, was not included on the list of approved travel destinations. Chinese media outlets reported that some 100 Chinese tourists traveling to Dubai, Abu Dhabi [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — China on Wednesday resumed mandatory COVID-19 tests for arrivals from South Korea only, in its latest tit-for-tat response over Seoul’s strengthened antivirus curbs against travelers from the neighboring nation. The tests were mostly conducted on foreign nationals, most of whom were Koreans. Sources said that travelers from South Korea [...]
SEOUL/BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — China resumed mandatory COVID-19 tests for arrivals from South Korea only Wednesday, in its latest tit-for-tat response over Seoul’s strengthened antivirus curbs against travelers from the neighboring nation. In a notice sent Tuesday to airlines operating between the two neighbors, Chinese aviation authorities said all passengers on board direct [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences”, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced today that the National Medical Products Administration (the “NMPA”) has conducted urgent review and approval under Special Examination and Approval of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Birds indigenous to China are being found in South Korea, largely due to climate change, a study showed Sunday. A thesis published in the recent edition of the Korean Journal of Phycology reported that two silver-throated tits were discovered on Socheong Island in Incheon in March of last year. [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences”, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced today that the new drug application (“NDA”) for Deuremidevir Hydrobromide Tablets (project code: JT001/VV116, “VV116”), an oral nucleoside analog anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors on Monday have indicted individuals including a former employee of a domestic company for leaking one of the nation’s core semiconductor technologies to China. The Suwon District Prosecutors Office announced that it had indicted four people, including a former researcher at SEMES Co., an affiliate of Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of ultrafine dust was bad or worse only on 17 days last year, the lowest on record, thanks to lower dust levels in China, the environment ministry said Monday. South Korea categorizes concentrations of ultrafine dust — particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, also known as [...]