SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese Embassy here issued a rare public statement in response to fury among South Koreans over the “appropriation” of “hanbok,” the traditional Korean attire, and deepening anti-China sentiment. A woman, dressed in hanbok, appeared during last week’s opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, representing an ethnic minority [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker by sales, said Monday it will launch six electric vehicles in China by 2027 as it aims to gain a share in the Chinese EV market. Kia plans to launch the EV6 all-electric sedan in the world’s biggest automobile market next year, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to continue global efforts to publicize hanbok, the traditional Korean attire, as its signature culture, a government official said Sunday, as people here are in an uproar over China’s use of hanbok during the winter Olympics opening ceremony. One woman clad in hanbok appeared among those [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its chipmaking facility in the Chinese city of Xi’an has returned to normal as the city has lifted a lockdown. The world’s largest memory chip maker had temporarily adjusted operations at its NAND flash chips manufacturing base late last month following the lockdown in [...]
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 [...]