SEOUL, Nov.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwoo (Korean beef) will soon be heading overseas. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs revealed that the quarantine procedures to export domestic beef, including Hanwoo, to Hong Kong are in the final procedures. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, full-scale discussions with Hong Kong [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A traditional Hanbok (traditional Korean outfit) designed by a young Korean designer caught the eyes of visitors at a fashion show in Hong Kong. Designer Jo Jin-woo displayed traditional and modern Hanbok at the Korea·Hong Kong Fashion Exchange held at PMQ Hong Kong. Jo Jin-woo is a designer for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A Kim Whan-ki painting has become the most expensive Korean artwork to be sold at auction after reaching US$4 million in Hong Kong, a South Korean auction house said Tuesday. The oil painting known only as “19-VII-71 #209″ went for HK$31 million at a Hong Kong auction Monday, Seoul [...]
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced a new distributor partnership with Edvance Technology, a leading Hong Kong value-added distributor. The new relationship will bring SolarWinds’ entire IT management software portfolio to help Hong Kong and Macau IT professionals [...]
SEJONG, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to transform Busan into the world’s No. 2 transshipment cargo port by 2020 by building up infrastructure and streamlining operations, the government said Tuesday. The move could enable the country’s largest sea port to outstrip Hong Kong for the second place slot among the world’s transshipment harbors and place [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hong Kong Express Airline and Cathay Pacific are reducing routes to Korea due to the MERS outbreak. Hong Kong Express will decrease its two daily round-trips on the Hong Kong-Incheon route to one, from June 15 to October 24. The airline will also reduce its seven weekly round-trips of [...]
JEJU, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of foreign companies are buying casinos in Jeju, as 4 out of 8 casinos have been taken over or are being taken over by foreign entities in the past year. At the end of 2014, Grand Express Korea, a joint corporation established by Hong Kong-based Landing [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA and SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Global Banking and Finance Review has announced that BMO Private Bank has won awards for Best Private Bank for Discretionary & Advisory Services in Hong Kong and Best Private Bank for Discretionary & Advisory Services in Singapore for 2015. The Global Banking and Finance [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean singer and actor Lee Min-ho will hold his first-ever solo concert in Hong Kong next month, his management agency said Thursday. The star of the popular Korean TV show “Boys over Flowers” will sing 12 tracks of his albums during the concert titled “Lee Min-ho Live in Hong [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO and HONG KONG, HONG KONG, Nov 18 (Korea Bizwire) - BMO Capital Markets, the investment & corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group (TSX:BMO)(NYSE:BMO), is adding trade finance booking capabilities in Hong Kong as it moves to serve more trade in Asia. Upgrading its Trade Finance capability in Hong Kong, a huge global trade [...]