TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government has effectively excluded its 20th century wartime atrocity against Koreans in a letter of formal recommendation for its former gold and silver mine, according to informed sources Monday. Tokyo has launched a campaign to get the Sado mine designated as UNESCO world heritage next year despite [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it has reentered the Japanese passenger vehicle market for the first time in 12 years, but this time with an online-only sales platform and all-electric models. Hyundai advanced into Japan in 2001 but pulled out of the neighboring market in [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government on Tuesday sought the UNESCO World Heritage listing of a gold mine, according to a local media report, despite strong protests from South Korea over its connection to wartime forced labor Following approval from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the Tokyo government submitted a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The already fraught ties between South Korea and Japan were dealt yet another setback Friday when Tokyo plowed ahead with the recommendation of a former mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage candidate despite Seoul’s objections. After weeks of deliberation, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. reportedly plans to start selling cars again in Japan. The South Korean carmaker is in the final stages of resuming car sales in the Japanese market, with a particular focus on electric vehicles, industry sources said. Hyundai has already unveiled new Japanese pamphlets introducing the Nexo [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese Embassy in Seoul has refused to accept South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Lunar New Year gift, claiming the gift’s box bears an image of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, Japanese news reports said Saturday. South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae had sent a gift box [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is not considering lifting a ban on imports of Japanese seafood to win Japan’s support for joining a mega free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region, Seoul’s oceans minister has said. South Korea is working to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which [...]
DENVER, SINGAPORE and TOKYO, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – STACK Infrastructure (“STACK” or the “Company”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced a partnership with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”), a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, to develop a 36MW data center campus in Inzai, [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – GEODIS, a global leading transport and logistics services provider, today announced that AEO has awarded its Japan office the contract to support the retailer’s distribution center. According to economists at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global eCommerce growth has seen a dramatic rise across retail [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court has dismissed a second appeal filed by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries against an order to sell patent rights the company has in South Korea to compensate a victim of wartime forced labor, according to legal sources Tuesday. The top court dismissed Mitsubishi Heavy’s appeal against the [...]