SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will begin adding its company logo to smartphones and other mobile devices sold in Japan. Samsung Japan recently changed the name of its mobile brand in Japan from “Galaxy” to “Samsung.” The name of its official website, too, changed from “Galaxy Mobile Japan” to “Samsung Japan.” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the ongoing dispute between South Korea and Japan, the number of Koreans traveling to Japan is increasing, government data showed Monday. When the Japanese government reopened its borders last October, some 123,000 Koreans reportedly visited Japan that month, according to the Korea Tourism Organization. The number gradually climbed [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ferry services between South Korea’s Busan and Japan’s Tsushima Island resumed Saturday after a three-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Busan Port Authority said two ferry vessels departed from a port in the southeastern city at 8:30 a.m. and 10:10 a.m., and arrived at Hitakatsu Port on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Sashimi enthusiasts in South Korea are growing increasingly restless. Vague fears, after all, are far more unnerving than specific, concrete pains. Despite international opposition, Japan is set to release radioactive water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant as early as April. Alarming research suggests that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that it has been chosen as the provider of up-to-date 5G solutions by the Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corp. Under the deal, Samsung will provide KDDI with 5G standalone (SA) core solutions, regarded as the heart of a 5G network in delivering essential network [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ negative emotion about Japan has eased and the rate of participation in the boycott of Japan declined, leading to a hike in demand for the Asian neighbor, a survey showed Sunday. According to a survey of 1,000 Korean adults conducted by Embrain Public, the share of those [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign ministry called in a Japanese Embassy official in Seoul on Friday to lodge a formal protest against Tokyo’s move to have a mine linked to the wartime forced labor of Koreans listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The previous day, the Japanese government submitted a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A top South Korean official stressed that a nuclear safety review process has not yet finished for Japan’s planned release of contaminated water from its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea. “The government’s top priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the people,” Nuclear Safety and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel demand to Japan has exploded in South Korea amid a weak yen and Japan’s easing of virus restrictions, industry data showed Friday. Japan resumed visa-free entry of international travelers in early October, after two years of strict border control to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The Japanese [...]
MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BITPOINT Latam, with its origins from JFSA-licensed BITPOINT Japan, launched Japanese Weeks for its crypto users in Latin America, a period of education and commercial activities aimed at promoting the use, trading, and development of new cryptocurrency-based products in Latin America. According to the latest Chainalysis’ Global Adoption report, [...]