SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court has ordered the Japanese government to disclose its assets in South Korea by next March to pay compensation to Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, judicial sources said Thursday. The Seoul Central District Court issued the order for Tokyo to submit a full list of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY has debuted in Japan with a digital album containing its hit songs and opened an official Japanese website, the group’s label said Wednesday. The album “WHAT’z ITZY,” was released through Warner Music Japan at midnight Tuesday, carrying the tracks “Dalla Dalla,” “Icy,” “Wannabe,” “Not Shy” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean civic groups on Friday urged Japan to scrap its plan to build an undersea tunnel to discharge radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. The groups, including the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements and the Korea Radiation Watch, held a joint news [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has decided to release contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the open sea that is one kilometer away from the plant, Japanese media outlets reported Wednesday. The contaminated water contains tritium, a radioactive substance. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An online tourist program focusing on “makgeolli,” South Korean traditional grain-based alcoholic drink, is gaining popularity in Japan. The Korea Tourism Organization said Wednesday that it will host a second makgeolli tasting tour this Saturday jointly with JALPAK, a Japanese tour agency. A similar tasting tour was first held [...]
Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan, August 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Atos today announced that it has selected Daiwabo Information System (DIS), leading distributor of IT-related products in Japan, to distribute its cybersecurity products locally. This partnership between Atos and DIS represents Atos’ first cybersecurity distribution agreement in Japan and is an important step to expand Atos’ international channel strategy and partner ecosystem. This [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan announced that it has opened up a website with online taekwondo courses for Japanese viewers. The website offers 33 taekwondo courses taught by a Korean instructor with Japanese subtitles. The website was created exclusively to prevent the inconvenience of searching through video [...]
ANYANG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has ordered the seizure of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s assets here to provide compensation to forced wartime labor victims’ families, according to judicial sources Thursday. According to Haemaru Lawfirm, the Anyang branch of Suwon District Court, just south of Seoul, recently ordered the seizure of [...]
CARLSBAD, Calif. and TOKYO, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — When looking to accelerate revenue growth and compete effectively in the global market, high-performing, enterprise sales teams choose a simple sales methodology that all customer-facing employees in each country can easily understand and use consistently. ValueSelling Associates, Inc. is the creator of the ValueSelling Framework®, a proven [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A second-generation Korean-German designer has embarked on a joint project with friends to develop a virtual statue of peace by using spare time after work or during weekends, as Japan continues to push for the removal of the Statue of Peace in Berlin, which symbolizes Korean victims of Japan’s [...]