SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A major Chinese TV network is expected to air Korean dramas next year, set to join other streaming platforms that have opened their doors to Korean entertainment content after a yearslong cultural freeze. Anhui Satellite TV said Tuesday on its official Weibo account that “Thai and Korean dramas will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun looking into China’s so-called clandestine police stations that are allegedly aimed at monitoring dissidents living overseas, police said Tuesday. Police and military personnel as wells as officials from the foreign ministry have been mobilized to investigate the existence of “110 overseas police service stations,” named [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Institute of Kimchi on Thursday released a video that clearly explains the difference between kimchi and “pao cai,” another type of pickled vegetable consumed in China. The video, titled “What Makes Kimchi So Special,” is five minutes long and comes with English and Chinese subtitles. It is [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the highest foreign dependency among its rival countries for the supply of critical minerals for secondary batteries, with China accounting for the majority of the imports, a report said Thursday. South Korea topped Japan, China and Germany with the highest ratio of 77.1 percent in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the registration of the traditional Korean mask dance, or “talchum” in Korean, on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, several Chinese media sources have claimed that talchum originated in China. China’s Wang Yi Network published a news article titled “South Korea succeeds in another UNESCO registration” in which it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Study-abroad students from China are raising their voices about their home country’s zero-COVID policy. Recently, campus boards in Korea University and Chung-Ang University were posted with various anti-Chinese slogans like “CCP (Chinese Communist Party) OUT”, “Free China” and “It’s my duty.” Chinese students and residents on Wednesday, showed up [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — China has resumed online streaming of a South Korean movie after six years, the presidential office said Tuesday, lifting a ban placed on all Korean cultural content over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in the South. The decision was made on the occasion of President Yoon [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fuel cell maker Doosan Fuel Cell Co. said Monday that it had signed a deal with China’s ZKRG Smart Energy Technology Co. to supply hydrogen fuel cells as well as to establish a joint venture. Under the terms of the deal, Doosan Fuel Cell will export a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese netizens are once again making false arguments that kimchi originated in China. Last Friday, Chinese state media published an article titled “Pao Cai makes it to Qatar earlier than Korean football players prior to the World Cup” and others. Pao Cai is a term persistently used in China [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday it has signed an initial pact with a Chinese investment bank to push forward its commercial car business in the world’s biggest automobile market. Hyundai Motor Group China has signed a memorandum of understanding with the CICC Capital Management (CCM) department, an affiliate of [...]