TORONTO, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading global commercial real estate services firm Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CIGI) (TSX:CIGI) announced today that it has commenced company-owned operations in Japan, the world’s third largest economy, to accelerate growth and leverage its existing brand presence. This strategic move strengthens Colliers International’s operations in Asia and provides a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Economic Research Institute held a seminar on August 23 regarding social mobility and education, where Professor Lee Joo Ho of the Korea Development Institute presented his findings on the correlation between children’s school grades and a family’s economic, social and cultural standing (ESCS). His research was based [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports to Vietnam surged nearly 50 percent in the first seven months of 2017, customs data showed Wednesday, an increase that is likely to put the Southeast Asian country among the top three shipment destinations for locally made goods. According to Korea Customs Service, exports to Vietnam [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. said Sunday it has won a 950 billion-won (US$832 million) deal to construct a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh. Under the contract signed with Japanese trading firm Sumitomo Corp., the construction arm of steelmaker POSCO will build a 1,200 megawatt plant and related facilities [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In commemoration of the 72nd Independence Day of South Korea, a statue of a ‘comfort girl’ symbolizing victims of Japanese sex slavery before and during the Second World War, was erected in the Seoul suburb of Yongin City. The committee that had commissioned the statue was in attendance for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — “Train to Busan,” South Korea’s 2016 zombie apocalypse blockbuster, will open in Japanese theaters in September, according to its distributor Tuesday. The film directed by Yeon Sang-ho will be screened at 148 theaters in 44 Japanese cities starting Sept. 1, according to NEW. “Train to Busan” was the top [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans generally have a more severe perception of environmental pollution than their counterparts in China and Japan, a study said Thursday. According to the study by a research team from the University of Utah, South Koreans gave 2.67 points on air pollution on a scale of one to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ CGV’s ScreenX immersive screening system has recently debuted in the Japanese market. The largest multi-screen cinema chain in Korea said Tuesday that it opened its first ScreenX theater at Aqua City Odaiba, one of the largest shopping destinations in Tokyo, on June 30 in partnership with the Japanese [...]
WASHINGTON, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Former U.S. Congressman Mike Honda was awarded a state medal from South Korea’s government Monday for his efforts to help improve Korea-U.S. relations and heal the wounds of Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Honda, who served as a House member representing California from 2001 to 2017, received [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN, Jun. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Frameworx, Inc., a Daiwa House Group company, which develops distribution systems (headquartered in Shizuoka prefecture, president: Jun’ichi Akiba) and YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory (Located in Tokyo and Kanagawa, directed by Ken Sakamura, Dean of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD) at Toyo University) will hold a second [...]