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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As more than 15 countries have imposed stricter quarantine measures against travelers coming from China, Beijing has recently suspended all issuance of short-term, transit visas and visas on arrival to Korean and Japanese nationals. Beijing explained that the measure was based on the principle of reciprocity. However, there are views [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s abrupt suspension of short-term visa services for South Koreans has dashed long-term recovery hopes for the country’s travel industry, industry insiders said Tuesday, amid likely cancellations of trips to the neighboring country due to the measure. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul made public the decision in a post [...]
SEOUL/BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China announced the suspension Tuesday of its short-term visa service for South Koreans in retaliation against Seoul’s regulations on entries from the neighbor with increasing COVID-19 infections. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul made public the decision in a post on its WeChat account, citing an “instruction” from Beijing for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The illegal distribution of South Korean content has become a part of everyday life in China, with the new Netflix series “The Glory” being no exception. At present, the average rating of the Netflix’s South Korean original starring top actress Song Hye-kyo stood at 8.9 out of 10 points [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As the Chinese government has recently shown some signs of lifting the yearslong ban on South Korean cultural products, including video games, hopes are high that local game developers will be able to tap into the world’s largest video gaming market again. Last week, China’s National Press and Publication [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Chinese students studying in South Korea on Saturday held a demonstration against the Chinese government’s strict zero-COVID policy. This was the first anti-regime protest held by Chinese individuals in the country after controversy over a secret Chinese police station erupted. Six Chinese students and members of [...]