SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread relentlessly around the globe, “untact,” or non-contact services are emerging as a new trend, and demand for robots to replace humans is also growing. The state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) said Thursday that service robots have been employed in public sanitation [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) - With the current loss of around 90% of all flights between Europe and Asia, there is a major shortage of freight capacity. At the same time, and precisely because of the crisis surrounding COVID-19, there is a huge requirement to transport medical equipment and other supplies quickly between [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Family ownership in modern corporations – despite being highly commonplace with household names such as Walmart, Volkswagen and Ford being high profile family-controlled examples in the West – has a bad reputation in emerging markets. Critics often argue that family managers often underperform their professional counterparts, and [...]
NEW YORK, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — via NetworkWire — iClick Interactive Asia Group (NASDAQ:ICLK) today announces its placement in an editorial published by NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), one of 40+ brands in the InvestorBrandNetwork (“IBN”), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company for private and public entities. To view the full publication, “Digital Advertising and Enterprise SaaS Present Tremendous Opportunities as Online [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean airlines are facing further challenges after the government imposed stricter entry restrictions to fight the spreading coronavirus outbreak. Korean Air Co., South Korea’s biggest airline and national flag carrier, said Monday it will temporarily suspend all flights on the Incheon-Beijing route from Saturday to April 25, leaving [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A major Chinese airline caused a stir recently when it unilaterally notified Korean flight attendants that they were being laid off. The dismissed crew members are now preparing for legal action. China Eastern Airlines Corp. (CEA) notified Korean flight attendants who were on two-year temporary contracts that they were [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Real estate is a key driver of the Chinese economy, and a popular choice of investment among the country’s consumers. The huge demand for real estate has contributed to a consistent rise in property prices in China in recent years. The latest National Bureau of Statistics data shows [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With the new coronavirus outbreak continuing to spread unabated, a vocal minority of the electorate is calling for South Korean President Moon Jae-in to be impeached. As of Friday, more than 1.3 million Koreans had signed an online public petition calling for Moon’s impeachment on the website of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Education authorities of South Korea and China agreed to advise their students against returning to school in the other country as part of their cooperation to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Seoul officials said Friday. The move comes as the spread of the virus is showing little [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — While the rapid spread of the new coronavirus infection has made it difficult to find masks in South Korea, made in Korea masks are relatively easy to buy in China. In fact, it is not difficult to buy made in Korea masks with Korean packaging if keywords such as [...]