TOKYO, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions, today announced a partnership with TIS INTEC Group, an IT provider serving the needs of domestic and overseas customers spanning finance, manufacturing, and public agencies. As partners, TIS will utilize the Anomali product suite to power its threat intelligence center to deliver [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean economy’s dependence on Japan has been on a downward trend since Japan imposed export restrictions against South Korea in July 2019, the country’s leading business lobby group said Sunday. The share of imports from Japan among overall South Korean imports fell from 9.8 percent in Q1 [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympics scheduled to be held next year in Japan, Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, unveiled on Thursday a video in English on social media such as YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, warning that the radiation risk still remains high in Japan. The [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese unit of the U.S. streaming giant Netflix is at the center of criticism after calling South Korea’s Gwangju Democratization Movement a ‘riot’ during its introduction of South Korean film “A Taxi Driver.” The 2017 box-office hit tells the story of a Seoul taxi driver who happens to [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of Japan’s exports to South Korea sank to a near 11-year low in May due to the coronavirus pandemic and Tokyo’s export controls, data showed Wednesday. Japan shipped 329.3 billion yen (US$3 billion) worth of goods to its neighboring country in May, down 18 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A rare mother-of-pearl lacquerware box from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), known as one of three of its kind remaining in the world, was revealed Thursday after being brought back from Japan. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) held a media event for the small najeon chilgi box, 10 centimeters wide [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese automakers are suffering an extended slump in South Korea amid a protracted trade row between the two Asian neighbors and the coronavirus pandemic, industry sources said Sunday. Honda Motor Co. suffered a sharp decline in its operating income to 1.98 billion won (US$1.64 million) between April 2019 and [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — For the past decades, the relationship between South Korea and Japan went through ups and downs, but the two Asian neighbors managed to maintain close ties at least on the economic side while haggling over their shared history. But Japan’s unprecedented export restrictions against South Korea last year took [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Japanese government was found to have invested a significant sum of money in an agency in charge of the de facto distortion of historical facts surrounding Hashima Island, where Koreans fell victim to forced labor during Japanese colonial rule. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his cabinet, challenging [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo, criticized for distorting historical facts related to forced labor on Hashima Island — also known as Gunkanjima — turned out to be the tip of the iceberg as fake information on history regarding forced labor by Imperial Japan continues to spread online. [...]