SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group, a South Korean food and beverage company, said Monday its bakery brand Paris Baguette has opened its first outlet in Hawaii in its global expansion strategy. Paris Baguette has opened the Bishop Street outlet, the first in Hawaii and 160th in the United States, in Honolulu, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has provided Hawaii with food and other emergency supplies to help cope with a series of devastating wildfires that recently ravaged the island of Maui, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. Lee Seo-young, South Korean consul general in Honolulu, expressed hopes for Hawaii’s speedy recovery as he delivered [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to provide Hawaii with US$2 million worth of humanitarian aid to help respond to a series of wildfires that recently raked the island of Maui, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The latest wildfires have killed at least 93, making it the deadliest U.S. fire in [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s second-biggest carrier, said Monday it has resumed flights to Hawaii as authorities eased travel curbs this month. Asiana reopened its Incheon-Honolulu route on Sunday, 25 months after its suspension in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flight resumption comes as fully vaccinated [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest carrier, said Wednesday it will resume flights to Hawaii next month after suspending the route for 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Korean Air made the decision to preemptively prepare for the post-pandemic travel demand as the government plans to adopt [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will supply a commercial energy storage system (ESS) in Hawaii as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand overseas sales of efficient power management solutions. A consortium of South Korean and United States entities, including LG, the University of Hawaii and the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Energy Corp., a South Korean renewable energy company, said Tuesday that it has won a project worth US$185 million to build a solar power plant on Hawaii’s most populated island of Oahu. Under the deal with Hawaiian Electric Co., Hanwha Energy is set to build the 60-megawatt solar [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spent the least time on the beach while on vacation but spent the most money among tourists from various countries, a survey showed Thursday. The average South Korean spent just 4.2 days soaking up the sun at beaches compared with the average duration of 7.2 days, according [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in Hawaii and Alaska, among U.S. citizens, are the most sensitive to North Korean developments, with the number of searches with the keyword “North Korea” the highest among the states, a U.S. broadcaster reported Wednesday. Hawaii and Alaska, among U.S. states, are U.S. territories located closest to North Korea, and thus their residents are the most responsive whenever North Korean issues hit newsstands, Voice of America (VOA) said. Last Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) also told [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Hawaii have signed a pact to recognize the validity of noncommercial driver’s licenses issued by each other, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Under the agreement, which went into force Wednesday in the U.S. state after being signed, holders of driver’s licenses issued by their own authorities [...]