SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — A petition has been filed via South Korea’s official online petition site to request the mayor’s dismissal and ban the city of Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province from further providing quarantine goods to its Japanese sister and friendship cities. “Gyeongju Mayor Joo Nak-young, who arbitrarily provided quarantine goods to Japan [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Uniqlo’s budget brand GU, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and a boycott of Japan in place since last summer, will withdraw from South Korea. FRL Korea Co., an operator of Uniqlo Korea, recently announced that GU will stop operating offline stores in the country around [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of consumer goods from Japan plunged 37 percent in April from a year earlier due to Japan’s export curbs and the new coronavirus impact on consumer spending, government data showed Sunday. The value of imported Japanese consumer goods fell on-year to US$249 million last month as [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy plans to look into possible impact of radioactive contaminated water on its operations, officials said Tuesday, amid concerns over Japan’s planned release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. Japan has been preparing to release contaminated water from the power plant devastated [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation TWICE will release a new Japanese single, “Fanfare,” in July, with the aim of making another megahit in the Japanese music scene. Uploading a video clip on its Japanese social media accounts Tuesday, the girl group broke the news of the album release. “We will release our [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the fixtures in President Moon Jae-in’s daily schedule in recent months has been to have phone calls with the leaders of foreign countries seeking South Korea’s help in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The long list includes friends, partners and allies from across the world, such as [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Piccoma, Kakao Japan Corp.’s online comic platform, is continuing its growth in the Japanese market. Launched in April 2016, Piccoma saw its annual turnover increase 14-fold the following year. Subsequently, the annual volume of business has more than doubled every year, growing 156 percent in 2018 and 130 percent in [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are anticipating layoffs at the South Korean unit of Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo, which has been hit hard by last year’s national boycott movement against Japanese products. Chief executive of FRL Korea, an operator of Uniqlo Korea, recently mentioned the term ‘restructuring’ in an email. The email written [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will not use Japan’s anti-influenza medication, called Avigan, for the treatment of the novel coronavirus due to doubts over its efficacy and potential side effects, health authorities said Monday. The anti-viral drug developed by the Fujifilm Holdings Corp. has emerged as one of the potential drugs in [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Passenger numbers on commercial airline flights between South Korea and Japan plummeted on Monday, as the two countries began enforcing entry restrictions against each other’s citizens over new coronavirus concerns. Japan suspended its visa waiver program for South Koreans, effective Monday morning, and started asking them to stay at [...]