SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS sold more than 1 million copies of its latest Japanese compilation album, data showed Thursday, becoming the first South Korean pop singers to achieve the feat since 2005. According to the data from Japanese music market tracker Oricon, the album titled “BTS, The Best” added 3,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s foldable smartphones are struggling in the Japanese market, partly driven by Japan’s aversion to Korean products. Apple Inc.’s iPhone SE became the most sold phone in Japan last year, followed by the iPhone 12, Sharp Corp.’s Aquos Sense 5G and other iPhones and Japanese brand smartphones, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted regular military drills to strengthen the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo last week, multiple sources said Wednesday, amid lingering tensions caused by Japan’s persistent claims to the East Sea outcroppings. The country’s military staged the drills to ensure their readiness to fend off potential [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea called Tuesday for Japan’s retraction of a push to list a former mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, calling it “very deplorable.” Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has reportedly been pushing to register the Sado mine on the coveted list where [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group TWICE will hold two concerts at Tokyo Dome on April 23-24 as part of its ongoing world tour, the group’s management agency said Monday. They will become the group’s first performances in Japan since 2019, when it performed in seven big cities in the country [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has become the first international act to be best-selling artist of the year in Japan. According to the annual rankings released by Japanese music tracker Oricon on Friday, the septet placed No. 1 on the total sales by artist, based on the aggregated sales of albums, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday voiced concerns as the operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant filed for approval for its plan to release radioactive water into the sea. The Seoul government held an emergency vice-ministerial meeting after Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) submitted an application for the planned [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s young generation is leading demand for Korean food in the country as they increasingly prefer ‘authentic’ Korean food. The Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corp. (aT) said Sunday that Japan’s MZ generation, born between the 1980s and early 2000s, prefers the ‘originality’ of Korean food. Despite Japan’s overall [...]
TOKYO, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Anaqua, the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions, and ASU Co., Ltd. (ASU), one of the foremost companies in Japan providing support for IP management systems in Japan, today have announced a strategic partnership. Through this collaboration, the two companies will work together to support customers in their [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday expressed concerns over Japan’s assessment report about its planned release of radioactive water into the sea from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The stance was delivered at a virtual meeting between South Korea and Japan over a draft report by Tokyo Electric Power Co. [...]