SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will require travelers coming from China to show negative COVID-19 tests, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday, joining other nations in imposing restrictions due to a surge of infections there. By the end of February next year, all arrivals from China will be required to show either [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s antitrust regulator has approved Korean Air Co.’s integration with smaller local rival Asiana Airlines Inc., with approval yet to come from four countries, Korean Air said Tuesday. The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM) has demanded the merged Korean Air-Asiana entity reduce its market [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese restaurant in southern Seoul, suspected of having functioned as a secret Chinese police station, is said to discontinue business next month, restaurant officials said Friday. The restaurant has received media attention after the Spain-based human rights watchdog Safeguard Defenders insisted early this month that China was operating [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Wednesday that a documentary on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in China is drawing a favorable response from Chinese people. In collaboration with Discovery Channel, the group made a mini-documentary under the theme of its CSR activities in China, including the prevention of desertification, [...]
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 [...]