SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol ramped up diplomacy with South Korea’s most important neighbors on Friday, the first full day since his election, vowing to rebuild the alliance with the United States while developing relations with China. Yoon also spoke by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and stressed the [...]
TEMECULA, Calif., March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (“Group”), a part of the Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japan) group of companies, is proud to announce yet another expansion of their manufacturing capabilities for the growing Marine market. With this expansion, they have become one of the largest manufacturers providing localized [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Three more South Korean TV series have started being broadcast on a Chinese video streaming service early this month, the dramas’ production company said Tuesday, another sign that China is reopening to Korean content after a yearslong cultural freeze. According to the Chinese Embassy in Korea and CJ ENM, [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. has established an office in the Chinese border city of Yanji and hired a large number of local employees as part of efforts to diversify overseas direct purchase services through the expansion of its presence in China. According to industry sources, about 230 [...]
BEIJING, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean romance “Something in the Rain” will be streamed on a Chinese online platform from Thursday, becoming the first Korean TV show to have won approval from Beijing’s TV watchdog in about six years. According to iQIYI, “Something in the Rain,” starring Son Ye-jin and Jung Hae-in, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who recently entered the Chinese city of Shanghai managed to convince local authorities to allow them to vote in the upcoming presidential election. The Chinese government requires foreigners entering the country to quarantine at hotels and other designated locations for a minimum of two weeks to prevent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As anti-Chinese, anti-Korean sentiment is reaching extreme levels following the Beijing Winter Olympics, a Chinese fan club for South Korean comedian Yoo Jae-suk suddenly announced that is was shutting down. The ‘Yoo Jae-suk Universe’ fan club announced on the Chinese social media platform Weibo last Sunday that the fan [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A conservative South Korean civic group tore up the Chinese flag during a rally near the Chinese Embassy in central Seoul on Friday to protest controversial refereeing against some of South Korea’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Members of the civic group, which calls itself [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid controversy arising at the Beijing Winter Olympics on China’s false ownership claims over hanbok, K-pop celebrities unveiled photos of themselves wearing the Korean traditional attire. On Tuesday, Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS posted a photo of himself on social media wearing a Korean royal robe. The photo was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean civic organization called upon Tottenham Hotspur to apologize for showing Son Heung-min alongside a congratulatory sign for the Chinese New Year’s Day. The Premier League club showed caricatures of the South Korean star forward and Chinese Tottenham Hotspur Women forward Tang Jiali on a stadium screen on Sunday [...]