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. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held an annual ceremony Friday to commemorate a successful 1954 operation by the country’s volunteer fighters to defend the easternmost islets of Dokdo against intruding Japanese ships, the veterans affairs ministry said. A civilian foundation honoring the group of 33 fighters hosted the event at a national [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are increasingly concerned over the issue of senior poverty caused by a lack of pension programs and other senior welfare policies as South Korea is becoming an aging society at twice the speed of Japan. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) conducted a survey of 500 senior respondents [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together rolled out its first Japanese-language EP on Wednesday, the group’s management agency said. “Chaotic Wonderland” consists of four songs, including the main track, “0X1=LOVESONG,” Big Hit Music said in a press release. The title number is the Japanese-language version of a track [...]