SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced that one of the company’s OLED TVs had been selected as the Best OLED TV at the 2022 Summer Best Buy Awards hosted by HiVi, one of most powerful HiFi magazines in Japan. HiVi selects the best LCD and OLED televisions from each screen size. The LG OLED [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a government-private consultative body Monday tasked with exploring ways to resolve the long-standing diplomatic row with Japan about compensation for the Korean victims of wartime forced labor, a sticking point in their relations. First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong presided over the inaugural session of the [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met with key business leaders during his visit to Japan last week and discussed cooperation in various areas, including semiconductors and batteries, industry sources said Wednesday. During the three-day trip from Wednesday through Friday, Chey met with Kenichiro Yoshida, CEO of Sony Group Corp.; [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s two biggest carriers, on Wednesday resumed the Gimpo-Haneda route after a two-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. South Korea and Japan agreed to reopen the route last week. Korean Air and Asiana will operate two flights per week [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan have agreed to reopen an air route between Seoul’s Gimpo and Tokyo’s Haneda airports after more than two years of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the transport ministry said Wednesday. The flight service between the two airports will resume next Wednesday eight times per [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday denied a Japanese media report claiming the Seoul government agreed to Tokyo’s plan to release radioactive water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Earlier this week, a Japanese news agency reported that the new Yoon Suk-yeol government appears to be planning [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — GRAID Technology is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with HPC Tech, Japan’s leading provider of upstream to downstream IT infrastructure solutions for high-performance computing applications. HPC Tech contributes to the development of society through science and technology computers (HPC) and IT technology. A leader in advanced [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care (H&H) Ltd., a major South Korean producer of cosmetic and health care products, said Friday it has opened a new research and development (R&D) center in Hokkaido, Japan, focusing on microbiome beauty products. LG H&H said Hokkaido provides the optimal environment for conducting research [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A video advertisement that talks about Japan’s “swastika” flag will air on YouTube, a project spearheaded by Seo Kyoung-duk, a South Korean professor at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul. Seo spent personal funds to respond to the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s recent video that claims Japan’s Rising Sun Flag doesn’t [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government lodged a strong protest with Japan Friday against Tokyo’s repeated assertion that Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, belong to the country. Seoul took issue with Tokyo’s first annual report on foreign policy and activities under the administration of Prime Minister [...]