SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean non-verbal percussion show “Nanta” has launched its second Chinese tour, its production company said Tuesday. Starting in Henan Province last Saturday, the tour will make 30 stops including in Yantai, Qingdao, Nanjing and Shanghai until May 26, PMC Production said. The tour is the second of its [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean star agency Yedang Entertainment on Wednesday said it will launch a joint venture company with the son of a Chinese properties magnate. Yedang Entertainment, a small label that signed K-pop girl group EXID, has recently changed its corporate name to “Banana Culture,” calling the move a first [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – An action drama for children on the saga of ancient China will be aired on a key South Korean TV channel starting this week, the channel said Monday. Co-produced by South Korea and China, the blockbuster drama named “Legend Hero” will be shown every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 [...]
DETROIT and SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Covisint Corporation (Nasdaq:COVS), the leading Cloud Platform for building Identity and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has announced it has been recognized as a supplier of the year by SAIC General Motors during the Annual Suppliers’ Conference and 2015 Suppliers’ Awards Ceremony, held in Shanghai, January [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The No. 2 leader of Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest carmaker, has said he will do his best to upgrade the corporate image in China to become the best car brand in the world’s biggest automobile market, the company said Sunday. “We are making efforts to prepare for [...]
SEOUL, Feb.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Changes are afoot in the cosmetics industry, with brand rankings in turmoil. It’s Skin climbed up to rank fourth due to its success with ‘snail cream’, and the formerly fourth ranked Etude dropped to sixth after slow sales continued for two years straight. According to industry analysts, The Face Shop [...]
SEOUL, Feb.16 (Korea Bizwire) – Apple’s Apple Pay mobile payment service will launch in China on February 18. Samsung is hoping to follow shortly with its Samsung Pay service, and is currently wrapping up negotiations with Chinese partners, adding a sense of tension to the Chinese mobile payment market. According to Chinese media, Apple Pay [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed “serious concern” over a decision by South Korea to begin formal talks with the United States to adopt an advanced U.S. missile defense system, according to China’s foreign ministry on Friday. Wang conveyed the concern to South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se during their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s foreign ministry expressed “deep concern” on Sunday as Seoul and Washington agreed to begin talks on the deployment of an advanced American missile defense system to South Korea following the North’s long-range rocket launch. Hours after North Korea claimed it had successfully put a satellite into orbit, South [...]
SEJONG, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) - North Korea’s trade with China dipped nearly 15 percent last year apparently due to a chilly bilateral relationship between the two neighboring countries, a report showed Sunday. The North-China trade volume reached US$4.9 billion in the January-November period, down 14.8 percent from $5.76 billion a year earlier, marking the first double-digit [...]