SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, China and Japan have agreed to accept a United Nations aviation agency’s proposal for an agreement critical for the safety of flights near Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, the transport ministry said Monday. South Korean and Japanese air traffic controllers have been directing north-south flights and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top construction equipment maker Doosan Infracore Co. said Monday that its excavator sales in China rose 22 percent last year from a year earlier on the back of infrastructure investment expansion by the Chinese government. Doosan Infracore sold 18,686 excavators in the country last year, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, will build its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in China as it seeks to enter the local hydrogen market, industry sources said Tuesday. Hyundai Motor aims to build the hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in Guangzhou within this year as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese internet search behemoth Baidu has been falsely claiming that renowned Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-45) is a Chinese national, an activist professor said Wednesday. Baidu’s online encyclopedia currently introduces Yun as a Chinese national, part of the ethnic Koreans living in China, explained Seo Kyeong-Deok, a professor at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese authorities recently examined a South Korean-flagged tanker over suspicion that it was smuggling refined oil to China, its embassy in Seoul said Saturday. The embassy’s explanation came after a local newspaper reported that Chinese authorities inspected the oil and chemical tanker for an unknown reason, sparking speculation that [...]
Bangkok, TH, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Anantara Vacation Club, Southeast Asia’s premier points-based vacation ownership programme, has announced that it will expand its cooperation with Wanda Hotels & Resorts, one of China’s largest luxury hotel management companies, to provide Club Points Owners with more domestic hotel choices in mainland China. In 2020, the COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris learned how to make kimchi from a renowned chef Tuesday, calling the fermented cabbage dish “uniquely Korean, world-renowned food.” The kimchi-making event at the Habib House, the ambassador’s official residence in Seoul, came amid Chinese media’s claim that Beijing led the development [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of excavators by Doosan Infracore Co. in China are expected to reach the highest in a decade this year on strong demand in the world’s No. 2 economy, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the data by the China Construction Machinery Association, Doosan Infracore sold 1,692 units of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co. has invested in an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in China in the latest move to boost its production capacity amid growing demand for zero-emission cars in the world’s largest auto market, people familiar with the matter said Monday. The South Korean EV battery maker acquired [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Harry Harris on Thursday described South Korea as the “original home” of kimchi, amid a controversy over Chinese media’s claim that Beijing led the development of a global standard for the staple Korean dish. Harris made the remarks in a tweet, unveiling his plan to [...]