PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. television network NBC Sports has apologized for broadcasting insensitive remarks relating to South Korea during the PyeongChang Winter Games’ opening, according to Olympic officials Sunday. The broadcaster came under fire after Joshua Cooper Ramo, an Asian commentator for NBC, said during the march by Japanese Olympic athletes at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s beauty and fashion brands are leading a new round of hallyu, or the Korean Wave, in Japan, where the market for the products is growing, a local trade body said Thursday. Japan imported 2.68 billion yen (US$24.47 million) worth of cosmetics from South Korea in the January-September [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has been designated the first country to host South Korea’s largest convention of Korean pop music and culture for this year, organizers said Monday. First launched in Irvine, California, in 2012, KCON is hosted by CJ E&M and held in multiple countries throughout the world. Attending the event [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train traveling over 100 kph under a joint project with the Japan-based KDDI Corp. The two companies, which have been rolling out joint projects in the field since 2015, said they successfully observed data transmission speed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band TVXQ rewrote Japanese Oricon music chart history by having six albums hit the top of the weekly chart, a first by any foreign artist group, its agency said Tuesday. S.M. Entertainment said “FINE COLLECTION～Begin Again～” became their latest album to rank first on the weekly chart. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — UNESCO has delayed its review of multinational civic groups’ request to register documents related to Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of women on the list of “Memory of the World,” the South Korean culture ministry said Tuesday. In May 2016, 15 civic groups from 8 countries, including South Korea and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan agreed Thursday to work together to tackle the increasingly low birthrate trend in a bid to boost the growth potential of two of Asia’s largest economies. Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo and his Japanese counterpart, Masaji Matsuyama, met in Seoul to discuss the pressing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in suggested Friday that South Korea could go ahead with humanitarian aid to North Korea in a thinly veiled rejection of a call for caution by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe asked Moon to consider the timing of the proposed aid during their phone conversation, but [...]
DENVER, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) announced today the abstract selections for the 18th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), which will be held in Yokohama, Japan, on October 15-18, 2017. The research will be presented during the conference by world-class researchers, physicians, nurses and [...]
TOKYO, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) - UNIQLO announced that it will launch the Fall/Winter 2017 Uniqlo U collection at stores around Japan and through the uniqlo.com online store from Friday, September 29. This is the third Uniqlo U collection from the design team at the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center, led by Artistic Director, Christophe Lemaire. The new [...]