SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese students responsible for ripping off banners placed around the Yonsei University campus to promote democracy in Hong Kong have been indicted without detention. The Seoul Western District Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that eight Chinese students from Yonsei University have been charged with allegations of damaging public property. The [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Not a single Chinese national entered nor departed from South Korea last Saturday, the Ministry of Justice said Monday, amid strict entry restrictions imposed by both countries due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to the ministry’s data obtained by Yonhap News Agency, no Chinese, including flight attendants, arrived here [...]
JEJU, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Immigration Office in South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju quickly became a scene of chaos with Chinese illegal aliens lined up to flee the country. Some 200 people rushed to report on Tuesday that they would voluntarily leave South Korea. There were even instances of physical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese nationals entering South Korea fell sharply following measures to contain the new coronavirus, government data showed Saturday. After peaking at 18,743 on Jan. 13, the number of Chinese entrants plunged around 94 percent to 1,093 on Thursday, according to the data announced by Korea Immigration [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese nationals entering South Korea is declining, the justice ministry said Thursday, following tighter monitoring of people arriving from the neighboring country amid a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases here. According to government data, 1,404 Chinese entered South Korea on Wednesday, down 92.6 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Public chagrin is growing over some Chinese provincial authorities’ forcible anti-coronavirus quarantine measures against South Koreans, fueling criticism of Seoul’s cautious immigration controls and strengthening calls for broader entry bans on Chinese visitors. Despite Seoul’s entry ban limited only to China’s central Hubei Province at the center of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s low-cost carriers will suspend more flights on Chinese routes to avoid fallout from the fast-spreading new coronavirus, industry sources said Wednesday. Jeju Air Co., the country’s biggest budget carrier, which recently suspended six out of 17 routes to mainland China, will halt another route beginning Friday, a [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday deployed over 600 quarantine officials at Incheon International Airport, the nation’s top airport west of Seoul, struggling to maintain effective defense against the spiraling coronavirus outbreak on the second day of the enforcement of an entry ban for non-Korean travelers from China’s Hubei Province. According [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales at South Korean duty-free stores hit a new annual high of over 24 trillion won last year, industry data showed Tuesday, mainly on the back of more foreign customers, mainly Chinese visitors. The combined sales of local duty-free shops reached 24.86 trillion won (US$20.87 billion) in 2019, up [...]