SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — MUMUSO, a Chinese distributor of daily supplies accused of imitating a Korean brand, is turning a blind eye to the recent government order to shut down its Korean branch. MUMUSO opened a branch office in South Korea in 2014. As it turns out, however, the office only existed on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A best-selling Korean feminist novel topped an online sales list in China, becoming a major overseas hit after also achieving success in Japan, a publication house said Thursday. “Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982″ by Cho Nam-joo ranked atop the fiction sales list on Dangdang, China’s biggest online bookstore, on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign corporations that set up South Korean offices to feign as a local brand and bandwagon on the Korean Wave have been ordered by the court to be disbanded. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office announced on Thursday that they had ordered two [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese and Japanese tourists, who make up the biggest share among foreign tourists visiting the country, have differences in their preferences and behavior, a government survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey by the Korea National Tourism Organization, which is affiliated with the culture ministry, 79.1 percent of Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese nationals accounted for over 40 percent of foreign drug offenders arrested in South Korea last year, police data showed Wednesday. The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said a total of 1,174 Chinese nationals were arrested in South Korea for drug offenses from 2014 to 2018 — 130 in [...]
JEJU, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Jeju Province said Monday it will take steps to nullify its conditional approval of a Chinese-owned medical center as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital. The Shanghai-based Greenland Group recently requested the extension of the March 4 deadline for the opening of the Greenland International Medical Center [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Araon, South Korea’s only icebreaking vessel, has helped evacuate 24 isolated Chinese researchers in the Antarctic region, the country’s ocean ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said the icebreaker gave assistance to researchers on Inexpressible Island near South Korea’s Jang Bogo Antarctic Research Station in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 2.9 percent of South Korean single women regard marriage as necessary, a figure far lower than their Chinese counterparts, a survey showed Wednesday. In contrast, 19.4 percent of Chinese women consider marriage necessary, according to the survey of 411 and 413 single women aged 25-34 and living in [...]
JEJU, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju’s Seobu Police Station said four Chinese men visiting Jeju visa-free were arrested for burglary on Monday. The men are suspected of breaking into a high-end villa in a small town near Jeju City on December 30 and stealing watches and jewelry on three separate occasions. An investigation revealed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who visited South Korea rose 31.1 percent in October from a year earlier mainly due to a base effect after visits by Chinese nationals plunged in 2017, the local tourism promotion agency said Thursday. A total of 1.53 million foreigners visited South Korea last month, [...]