BUSAN, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation has established a memorial hall to commemorate those who were put to forced labor during Japanese rule and never made it back home. The Foundation for Korean Victims of Forced Mobilization by Imperial Japan held an opening ceremony for [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BTS was the biggest seller of music in album format in Japan during the first half of 2020, according to Japan’s main music sales tracker Friday. “Map of the Soul: 7,” the septet’s studio album released in February, has sold 429,009 copies in Japan to date to [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic South Korean cyber organization created posters that were put up for distribution on social media Wednesday to criticize Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo for offering distorted information related to the various historical atrocities that took place on Hashima Island. Japan vowed that it would set [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Materials Co., a South Korean manufacturer of specialty gas, has recently begun mass-producing etching gas, almost a year after Japan imposed export curbs on the material critical for chip manufacturing, its parent SK Group said Wednesday. Last year, SK Materials built a plant with an annual production capacity [...]
TOKYO, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has not fulfilled its pledge to commemorate Korean victims of wartime forced labor in a new facility celebrating its industrial revolution, threatening to further strain already-sour Seoul-Tokyo relations, a trip to the site revealed on Sunday. Japan is scheduled to open the Industrial Heritage Information Centre on Monday. [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical firm, announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire the business rights for 18 brands of Takeda Pharmaceutical of Japan in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the 332.4 billion won (US$278.2 million) deal, Celltrion is set to secure the patent, trademark and [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that its Lumify with Reacts handheld tele-ultrasound solution is now commercially available in Japan. Philips has received clearance from Japan’s healthcare authority to introduce the ultrasound solution for compatible handheld devices [1] in the world’s third largest healthcare [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court has decided to begin a legal procedure that could lead to liquidating seized assets of a Japanese firm that has ignored a ruling to compensate Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor. According to the legal representatives for four Korean plaintiffs Wednesday, the Pohang branch of [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 South Korean companies have struck deals worth 71.6 billion won (US$58 million) with Japanese firms for the export of dried laver, the fisheries ministry said Tuesday. The deals were reached in a videoconference hosted by the Korea Fishery Trade Association and five Japanese civilian organizations on [...]
TOKYO, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that Contrail Enterprise Multicloud has been selected as the common services management platform by Net One Systems, one of Japan’s largest network integrators. With the adoption of Contrail Enterprise Multicloud across its multicloud-ready data centers, Net One Systems can now offer its [...]