TOKYO, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip Group, Asia’s largest online travel agency, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Okura Nikko Hotel Management to promote Japan and the hotel group by launching an exclusive Okura Nikko flagship store. Okura Nikko Hotel Management will be the first hotel group in Japan to sign a partnership agreement [...]
TOKYO, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading media consultancy MightyHive today announced its Japan team has been certified as a Google Cloud Platform Partner for sales and service. As a Google Cloud Platform Partner, MightyHive empowers Japanese brands to activate their data more effectively and guides clients on strategic data management. The company was initially certified as a Google Cloud [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Many Japanese people are concerned over the possibility that the deteriorating Korea-Japan relations may even hurt non-governmental exchanges between the two countries. The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, recently conducted a public survey that revealed that 56 percent of Japanese voters are concerned that Korea-Japan relations may affect economic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans who travelled to Japan during this year’s fall harvest holiday sharply declined from last year, due to the response to Tokyo’s export curbs on Seoul, data showed Monday. The number of Koreans who traveled to or from Japan via Incheon International Airport came to [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese beer fell 97 percent in August from a year earlier due to a boycott of Japanese products amid a bilateral trade spat, data showed Monday. The value of imports of Japanese beer came to US$223,000 in August, compared with $7.56 million in the same [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese beer nose-dived this month due to a boycott of products from the Asian neighbor here amid a bilateral trade dispute, data showed Thursday. The combined imports of Japanese beer over the first 10 days of this month fell a whopping 99.9 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent reports have indicated that many Koreans who planned to travel to Japan cancelled their trips or changed their destination to Korea after the Japanese government imposed trade restrictions earlier this summer. According to an online survey of 1,300 people conducted by the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, 69.3 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it has lodged a complaint with the world’s top Olympic body over Japan’s potential use of its imperial flag during next year’s Summer Games. The sports ministry said it sent a letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, expressing “deep disappointment and concerns” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday over Japan’s export curbs, upping the stakes in the unprecedented trade row between the two Asian neighbors. The move came more than two months after Tokyo started restrictions of exporting three key industrial materials to Seoul, [...]
OITA, Japan, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip.com International, Ltd., Asia’s largest online travel agency, today signed an agreement with Oita tourism bureau to cooperate in the promotion of inbound tourism to the region. Oita Tourism Bureau is the first municipality in the Kyushu region to sign an agreement with Ctrip. In 2017, 4.9 million [...]