SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “SKY Castle”, a black comedy and thriller by the cable channel JTBC, has ended on Friday with a recorded nationwide viewership ratings of 23.78 percent. It set a new record for the highest viewership ratings in South Korean cable network history. The drama has brought about deep interest in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of citizens and activists marched along the main streets of central Seoul on Friday to mourn the death of an iconic Korean victim of Japan’s World War II sex slavery. Some 1,000 mourners gathered at the public square in front of Seoul City Hall early in the morning [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to reduce the volume of purchases from Japanese corporations with a history of being involved in atrocities committed against the Korean people during the colonial rule of the Korean peninsula. The Seoul Metropolitan Council began deliberating on a recently submitted bill that calls on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the label of the globally celebrated K-pop girl band TWICE, will team up with Japan’s Sony Music to launch a new girl band composed of Japanese members, the company said Tuesday. “(JYP chief) Park Jin-young will host a press conference for local media outlets at Sony Music’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government on Tuesday mourned the death of a victim of Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement well known for her efforts to raise public awareness on the issue. Kim Bok-dong died at 10:41 p.m. on Monday at Yonsei Severance Hospital in western Seoul, according to the Korean Council [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free stores saw their sales from Japanese consumers rise sharply on-year in January despite the on-going military tension between the two countries, apparently on the back of the strong Japanese yen, industry sources said Sunday. Sales from Japanese consumers at a Lotte Duty Free shop in Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military on Thursday released five photos captured from two videos of a Japanese warplane’s “threatening” low-altitude flyby close to its destroyer a day earlier. The disclosure came as Tokyo rejected Seoul’s claim that its P-3 maritime patrol plane buzzed by South Korea’s 4,500-ton destroyer Daejoyeong at an [...]
TOKYO, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced that BroadBand Tower, one of Japan’s largest data center providers, has selected Juniper Network’s high-performing solutions to power its ‘Next-Gen 5G data center’ situated in the central Tokyo district of Otemachi, which will support the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry expressed “deep regrets” Monday over Japan’s disclosure of new evidence related to a military radar dispute and its decision to halt bilateral consultations. Tokyo’s defense ministry announced its final view on the monthlong spat, saying that bilateral working-level dialogue may not lead to “verification of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul appellate court on Friday upheld damages claims by another group of South Koreans forced into wartime labor and ordered a Japanese firm to compensate them. The Seoul High Court retained the lower court’s ruling that ordered the Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to pay 80 million won to 100 million [...]