SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 252 South Korean employees at LG Group affiliates have entered China through an expedited entry system set up between the two countries in exception to current entry restrictions imposed over the coronavirus outbreak, a senior foreign ministry official said Thursday. The LG Chem and LG Display [...]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — INTERNATIONAL FRUIT GENETICS, LLC (IFG) has taken steps to protect its intellectual property in China. The California-based company is the sole and unique proprietor of different table grape varieties, such as IFG Six (Sweet Sapphire ™), IFG Eleven (Sugar Crisp ™), IFG Sixteen (Sweet Favors ™), and IFG [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — G-Dragon became the first South Korean celebrity to sign a corporate endorsement deal with a Chinese company following Beijing’s virtual ban on “hallyu,” or South Korean pop culture, since 2016, the singer’s agency said Monday. The singer-rapper of K-pop act BIGBANG recently signed a deal with Chinese bottled water [...]
SHANGHAI, China, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Junshi Biosciences (HKEX: 1877), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies, today announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for toripalimab as a treatment for patients with recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) - The subject of whether China, which is not only the world’s second largest economy but also – thanks to decades of high and steady economic growth creating new wealth – has the second largest number of billionaires after the United States, is still an emerging economy is a matter [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of domestic factors in Seoul’s ultrafine dust particles has increased over the past five years, while the ratio of China’s contribution to the local particulate pollution has been stagnant, a report showed Saturday. According to the report issued by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, homegrown pollutants were responsible [...]
SHANGHAI, China, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading international travel services provider Trip.com Group today released its 2020 May Day Tourism Trends Report for the Chinese market, revealing a significant increase in bookings over the period, and tendencies towards a particular mode of domestic travel in the country, where the company is the largest travel [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China have agreed to seek an “institutional framework” to grant businesspeople exemptions from entry restrictions aimed at preventing imported new coronavirus infections, a foreign ministry official said Monday. The agreement came during a videoconference that Vice Foreign Minister Cho Sei-young and his Chinese counterpart, Le Yucheng, [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is in talks with the Chinese government over sending semiconductor engineers to the company’s Chinese plants. Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection, COVID-19, China has not allowed foreigners to enter the country except in special cases. The world’s largest memory chip maker and the [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., a major energy and chemical company in South Korea, said Monday that it will supply electric vehicle (EV) batteries to its Chinese partner, Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC Group). BAIC’s MARK 5, set to be released in the second half of this year, will be powered by [...]