SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip and display makers are expected to embrace yet more uncertainty from Japan’s restriction of exports of key materials for their production amid diplomatic rows between the two nations, market watchers said Monday. The Japanese government said earlier in the day that it will strengthen regulations on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s dried laver production has reached a 41-year all-time low, raising speculations that South Korean exporters might step in to fill the void. The Fisheries Outlook Center at Korea Maritime Institute said on Thursday that the amount of dried laver put out for public sale in Japan was 63 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ likability for Japan has increased amid the deteriorating relations between South Korea and Japan over the past few years. On the contrary, Japan’s favorability towards South Korea has declined, according to a recent survey. The East Asia Institute (EAI), a private South Korean think tank, and Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan continue to engage in a relay of drama remakes as Japan’s Fuji TV plans to release a remake of a South Korean drama, “Two Weeks” (2013). In Japan, various remakes of South Korean dramas are soon to hit three broadcasting stations next month. Haruma Miura, [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — “President Trump! You mentioned the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as the ‘Sea of Japan’, but it is correct to call it the ‘East Sea.’” Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, said on his Instagram account on Wednesday that he posted such a [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With the South Korean government’s import ban of Japanese fisheries products gaining the recognition of the World Trade Organization, the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS) has made an announcement that appears to represent the Japanese government’s position. The KNS held a press conference at the Korea Press Center in Seoul [...]
TOKYO, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As K-pop band BTS’ latest hip hop song, “Dionysus,” hit the speakers at a small dance studio on a quiet backstreet of Shinjuku district in Tokyo one Saturday morning in May, a group of Japanese boys and girls swung their arms back and forth in sync with the music, [...]
TOKYO, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Japan launched a special exhibition featuring traditional Korean handicrafts on Thursday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the institution that links the two neighboring countries. The exhibition, titled “Monochrome Monologue,” is set to be open to the public from Friday to June 11 at [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Overturning a lower court decision, an appellate court rejected a request Thursday to make public diplomatic documents related to South Korea’s 2015 deal with Japan over Tokyo’s wartime sex slaves. The Seoul High Court judged that keeping the relevant documents confidential was proper, saying a possible disclosure of the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean and Japanese citizens participating in the 13th “Peace & Green Boat,” a cruise program of the Korea Green Foundation and a Japan-based international NGO, Peace Boat, was held on a boat headed to Nagasaki from Shanghai on April 12. During the program, South Korean [...]