ZUG, Switzerland, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – CasperLabs, a leading blockchain software company for the enterprise market is pleased to announce a partnership with China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) that will see BSN adopt an Open Permissioned Blockchain Adaptation (OPB) of the Casper Network to serve as the preferred blockchain for the City of Fuzhou. CasperLabs is building [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans attending universities in Northeast China are giving up their enrollment after being denied entry to the country for two years. The South Korean Consulate General in Shenyang and an association of Korean students from Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in China said that local universities in these [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have picked the U.S. as the most trustworthy country that they should engage in cooperation, while also identifying China and Japan as the least trusted states. The Seoul National University Asia Center conducted a survey of 1,031 individuals to learn about their preferences towards 20 countries including [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The prolonged lockdown in the Chinese city of Xi’an will have minimal impact on the performance of Samsung Electronics Co., which has a chip fabrication complex there, analysts said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, temporarily adjusted operations at its NAND flash chips manufacturing base in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean movie and a TV series have been officially released in Chinese theaters and via a local streaming platform for the first time in about six years, raising cautious hopes that the yearslong cultural freeze between the neighboring countries is thawing. The comedy film “Oh! My Gran” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LX International Corp., the general trading arm of LX Group, said Monday 1,100 tons of urea will arrive in South Korea from China this week. The shipment — the first batch from an import contract with China for 10,000 tons of urea — will arrive in the southeastern port [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said Friday that it has started the construction of a plant in China that will produce galvanized steel sheets to be used in making cars. The plant in Tangshan in northern China’s Hebei Province, whose construction is to be completed by 2023, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese internet search behemoth Baidu has been rejecting requests to correct Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945)’s nationality over the past year. Baidu introduces Yun, as well as Korean independence fighters Lee Bong-chang (1900-1932) and Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932) as of Chinese nationality and lists their ethnic group as “Joseonjok” or [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it will establish a railroad transport unit in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu as part of efforts to expand its logistics operations between China and Europe. The company said that a new corporate entity, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans chose China as the biggest security threat to their country among the neighbors, excluding North Korea, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey by the state-run Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU) on 1,006 adults, 71.8 percent of the respondents picked China [...]