SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) - Actor-singer Rain will make a world tour stop in Hong Kong this weekend, his management agency said Thursday. R.A.I.N. Company said he will perform before a sold-out crowd in Hong Kong as part of his world tour, titled The Squall, on Saturday. Rain launched his seventh global tour last November [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A wax figure of the popular Korean actor Lee Jong-suk will go on display in a global museum of wax dolls in Hong Kong this week, a local public relations agency working for the museum said Thursday. The actor will unveil his wax figure in a ceremony at Madame [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy bands BigBang and EXO each collected four trophies at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at Asia World-Expo Arena in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with 10,000 K-pop enthusiasts attending. BigBang captured the “Song of the Year” award for “Bang Bang Bang” and also nabbed “Artist [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s location-based coupon application provider YAP Company said Monday it has agreed to export its technology to Starbucks stores in Hong Kong, beefing up its efforts to tap the Chinese market. YAP Company currently operates an application, dubbed YAP, in South Korea, which allows users to download coupons [...]
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 [...]