SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese national who was waiting for a connecting flight out of Incheon International Airport was apprehended after sneaking past immigration and then getting cold feet. According to immigration officials, the Chinese national who arrived in Incheon from Qingdao, China jumped over an immigration counter that was one meter [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — “MUMUSO,” a Chinese retail chain that fronts as a Korean retailer of household goods operating globally in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South America and Russia has been caught in a crackdown by Vietnamese authorities. The chain has a total of 27 stores in Vietnam including those in the [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2016, there were 20,600 international marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals, the latest data from Statistics Korea shows. Although the number was a 3.2 percent decline from 2015, international marriages accounted for 7.3 percent of all marriages last year, up slightly by 0.3 percent. Korean men were [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Land owned by Chinese individuals and companies in South Korea has increased by more than five-fold over the past five years, a report showed on Tuesday. The amount of land owned by Chinese entities here came to 16.9 million square meters last year, marking a 486-percent hike from 3.7 [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s distribution industry has become heavily dependent on China for its profits, statistics indicated Wednesday, making them vulnerable to even political and social issues that can turn away consumers from the Asian neighbor. For Lotte Duty Free stores in Seoul, Chinese tourists accounted for 78 percent of its [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists are the biggest shoppers in Seoul by spending an average of more than 2 million won (US$1,730) per person on purchases, a think tank survey on foreign shopping in the country’s capital said Thursday. According to the outcomes of the poll of 1,045 foreign tourists who visited [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United Nations Command sent in troops Friday to crack down on illegal Chinese fishing boats in neutral waters around the mouth of the Han River between the two Koreas. About 10 Chinese fishing boats that were operating at that time retreated to the Pyongyang-controlled northern [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will tighten regulations on tour operators that lure Chinese travelers with cheap, low-quality packages to screen out substandard agencies and improve the tourism industry’s competitiveness, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will form a task force with related organizations to [...]
INCHEON, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Chinese nationals who were indicted on charges of illegally sneaking into South Korea through the country’s largest airport received a suspended jail term and were order to be deported, court records showed Friday. The Incheon District Court sentenced the husband and wife to a year and eight months [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – GS Home Shopping, a major South Korean home shopping operator, said Tuesday it has added a Chinese-language shopping channel in Malaysia to target deep-pocketed consumers in the Southeast Asian nation. The retail unit of GS Group joined hands with Astro Malaysia Holdings, a local broadcaster, to launch a shopping [...]