SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Unabated by escalating diplomatic and trade rows, South Korean and Japanese citizens gathered in Seoul on Sunday to take part in an annual festival designed to share their cultures and facilitate exchanges. The 15th Korea-Japan Culture Festival 2019 was held at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan should try to resolve a deepening row with South Korea by returning to its previous acknowledgement that individual claims to damages for wartime forced labor were not fully addressed by the 1965 normalization treaty between the two countries, a former Japanese leader said Thursday. Former Prime Minister Yukio [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The convenience store industry will exclude Japanese beers from promotional events next month in consideration of worsening public sentiment toward Japan. According to retail industry sources on Tuesday, major convenience store chains such as CU, GS25 and 7-Eleven excluded Japanese beers such as Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin Ichiban from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An intensifying trade feud with Japan is pushing South Korean companies to look beyond their longtime business partners and enhance self-sufficiency on concerns that Tokyo’s stronger export controls could choke off their supply chains. High-tech parts and materials have been unsung heroes behind the latest smartphones and televisions made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – In a symbolic move to show the government’s determination to help foster South Korea’s parts and materials production industry against Japan’s export restrictions, President Moon Jae-in on Monday invested 50 million won (US$41,135) in a relevant stock fund. He visited the headquarters of NH Nonghyup Bank in Seoul and subscribed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Having enthralled some 210,000 fans with the Japanese edition in July of its “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” world tour, K-pop super band BTS returned home to a hero’s welcome for its feat of bringing the peoples of South Korea and Japan together despite the countries’ deteriorating diplomatic ties. When [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s presence in the Japanese smartphone market rose to the highest level in six years in the second quarter thanks to robust sales of new models, industry data showed Monday. The Korean tech giant shipped about 600,000 smartphones in Japan in the April-June period to take up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS will host a set of four Japanese fan meetings in the last two months of the year, the band’s Japanese fan site showed Sunday. The upcoming events in Japan are a follow-up to the septet’s recent fan meeting series “BTS 5TH MUSTER [MAGIC SHOP],” held [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, has signed a deal with an affiliate of China’s largest lithium producer to secure a key material used for EV batteries, industry sources said Friday. According to the sources, LG Chem inked the deal to secure lithium hydroxide [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A visiting Japanese curator on Thursday called for worldwide efforts to fight growing art censorship in Japan and resume the exhibition of a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery at an international arts festival in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Yuka Okamoto, who [...]