SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A domestic golf course has decided to ban the entry of Japanese cars starting from next year, becoming the first of its kind in South Korea. Anesville Country Club, located in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, posted a notice on its website on Nov. 1 indicating that it will ban [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY will debut in the Japanese market next month with a new album, according to its agency JYP Entertainment on Monday. The agency announced the group will release a Japanese-language compilation album titled “IT’z ITZY” on Dec. 22, including its hit numbers, such as “Dalla Dalla,” [...]
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SafeAI, a global leader in autonomous heavy equipment, today announced a major global expansion with its entry into two new countries, Japan and India. With new offices and growing local teams in both markets, the company is poised to significantly accelerate the rollout of autonomous equipment across heavy industry, [...]
TOKYO, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Notion, the collaboration software company, today announced availability of its product in Japanese, enabling millions more users in Japan to use the product for notes, documents, wikis, and project management. This launch comes on the heels of a new fundraise of $275 million from Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management, a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government is stepping up to use YouTube to insist on calling the East Sea the ‘Sea of Japan.’ Japan’s Foreign Ministry posted a YouTube video titled ‘Sea of Japan – The one and only name recognized by the international community’ last month. In the video, the Foreign [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court has confirmed a lower court’s order to seize Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims, judicial officials said Monday. The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Japanese company’s appeal of a court order to seize its six patent rights and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry has expressed regrets over Tokyo’s approval of textbooks that refer to victims of wartime sexual slavery as “comfort women,” instead of “military comfort women,” in what critics say is a move to whitewash its past atrocities. On Wednesday, Japan’s education ministry reportedly approved five publishers’ plans [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday again dismissed a damages suit filed by the bereaved family of a victim of World War II forced labor against a Japanese company citing expiration of the statute of limitations. Four children of the late worker, surnamed Jeong, filed a suit in April 2019 [...]
ANYANG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The families of four forced labor victims have withdrawn a request to seize what was believed to be assets of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. in South Korea, legal sources said Thursday. The families recently filed the withdrawal request with the Anyang branch of the Suwon District Court, just [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean arm of DHC Corp., a Japanese retailer of beauty and health products, said Thursday it will pull its business out following plunges in sales apparently driven by a nationwide boycott of Japan-made goods. DHC Korea Inc., which advanced in the country in April 2002, said on [...]