SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — With the ensuing boycott movement against Japanese products, South Koreans are beginning to share information on new and upcoming Japanese brands coming to South Korea. The intent is to include them in the boycott list to hurt their sales as soon as the stores are open. Among them, Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing diplomatic and trade dispute between South Korea and Japan doesn’t appear to be having much impact on exchanges between the two countries’ universities. According to university officials nationwide on Tuesday, most exchange programs involving South Korean and Japanese universities and their students will proceed this year as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedentedly large number of high-profile K-pop concerts and album releases are set to hit Japan from August onward as K-pop is enjoying a heyday in the neighboring country, but an accelerating trade row between Korea and Japan is feared to pose uncertainty over their future. Pushing its diplomatic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan is expected this week to unveil goods that will be subject to stricter regulations when exported to South Korea in addition to three key materials crucial to the production of chips and display panels, government sources here said Tuesday. Last week, Tokyo removed South Korea from the so-called [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Several Japanese local governments have asked South Korean low-cost carriers (LLCs) to retain flight routes to Japan amid a rising boycott of travel to the neighboring country, industry sources said Tuesday. High-level delegations from Japanese cities and prefectures, including Takamatsu City, recently visited such South Korean budget carriers as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As demand for trips to Japan, which was once the most popular travel destination among South Koreans, has plummeted with the ongoing boycott against Japan, alternative destinations abroad are enjoying an uptick in popularity. In particular, it is surprising to see the demand for travel to Hong Kong has [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese beer and cars tumbled in July due to a boycott of Japanese products here amid a bilateral trade spat with the neighbor, data showed Tuesday. Imports of Japanese beer nose-dived 45 percent on-month to US$4.34 million last month, according to the data from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Cooling South Korea-Japan relations following Japan’s recent economic retaliation are affecting the sports industry. Gangneung in Gangwon Province, a host city for the South Korea-China-Japan Women’s Curling Competition scheduled for August 16 to 18, decided not to invite the Japanese team. The competition will feature the Gyeonggi Provincial Government [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing consumer boycott of Japanese goods stemming from an accelerating trade war between the neighbors has also seeped into the cultural front, with many Japanese films and books coming under the shadow of the consumer campaign. In protest of Japan’s initial retaliatory imposition of export curbs on three [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Top executives of Samsung Electronics Co. and its affiliates held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss measures to guard against risks related to Japan’s tighter export regulations, company officials said. Lee Jae-yong, the de-facto leader of the South Korean tech giant, convened the gathering with chiefs of semiconductor [...]