SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp., the South Korean carmakers that have been leading India’s automobile market, now face a movement for an online boycott after being embroiled in a territorial dispute. Several local netizens are calling on boycotting the two carmakers on Twitter and other social [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Krafton Inc., a South Korean gaming giant behind the global smash hit “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG), said Thursday that it has invested US$5.4 million in an Indian sports game developer, Nautilus Mobile. It is Krafton’s first investment in an Indian game development studio. Nautilus is a sports game developer that [...]
JAIPUR, India, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — jooli, currently Europe’s fastest-growing and most intuitive video shopping app, is now hitting the Indian market. jooli in India has been launched by the European founders together with Prashant Sharma and Ritesh Badia. “We see great potential in India because the market is ready for a new online [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — EdifyOnline, an education technology company, announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with MIT-WPU (Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, India), with the sole objective to collaborate and build a virtual center of scientific and educational research focused to meet the challenges of the present [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — India, once a formidable market where Korean multimedia could not survive, is gaining interest in the Korean language. The Korean Cultural Centre India said that the online registration for the 81st Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) I, which opened in India at 9 a.m. on Monday last week, [...]
HYDERABAD, INDIA, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading global data analytics provider Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK) has been Great Place to Work-Certified™ in India for the second year in a row. Based on employee feedback, the certification honors Verisk for its outstanding workplace culture. Verisk’s certification is driven by an employee engagement survey which measured the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cell therapy developer GC Cell Corp. said Tuesday that it has signed the company’s first licensing agreement with India-based Rivaara Immune to develop its liver cancer treatment. Under the agreement, Rivaara Immune has obtained the exclusive right to develop and commercialize Immuncell-LC, immunotherapy for liver cancer, in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp., a smaller affiliate of Hyundai Motor Co., on Thursday launched the Carens multi-purpose vehicle in India to gain a share in the local family car market. The seven-seat Carens MPV comes with a 1.5-liter diesel engine, a 1.4-liter turbocharged gasoline engine or a 1.6-liter gasoline engine model, [...]
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Sannam S4 has achieved full accreditation under the CPD Certification Service for their International Education Adviser Programme, in the top five markets across the globe; US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The Adviser programme is featured within the Sannam S4’s Centre of Excellence, an internal Learning and Development [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. are proving to be strong players in the Indian sport utility vehicle (SUV) market. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) reported that out of 100,055 SUVs sold in India last month, Hyundai and Kia sold 18,538 and 15,931 vehicles, respectively. Hyundai [...]