SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Lee Min-ho was greeted by 10,000 fans at his first “talk concert” in Japan, his management company said Wednesday. “Minoz World,” held at Yokohama Pacifico Palace at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. on Monday, attracted 10,000 fans, Starhaus Entertainment said. The 2.5-hour show played highlights from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called on Japan Friday to drop its reckless claim to sovereignty over a pair of rocky islets in the East Sea. It was responding to a Tokyo speech by Japan’s top diplomat Fumio Kishida. He reiterated that Dokdo belong to Japan and said his government will deliver [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tourism industry suffered a severe blow from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak last year, but Japan enjoyed a huge influx of travelers thanks to the cheap yen and easier visas, data showed Tuesday. The number of foreign travelers to South Korea slipped in 2015 for [...]
SEOUL, Dec.9 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Mideja (74), the daughter of Lee Eui-young, who died fighting for the Japanese during World War II, plead in tears at a court hearing, asking officials from Yaskuni Shrine to release her father from the shrine. Lee filed a suit against the Japanese government and Yaskuni Shrine to have [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Boy band EXO has sold the most debut singles as a South Korean act to enter Japan ever, its agency said Tuesday. EXO sold more than 147,000 copies of its first single in Japan, “Love Me Right ~romantic universe~,” which came out last Wednesday, S.M. Entertainment said. The single [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists to Japan has hit an all-time high this year as the yen’s continued weakness makes travel to the neighboring country cheaper, industry data showed Sunday. A total of 2.86 million South Koreans visited Japan in the first nine months of the year, up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, China and Japan will hold anew round of talks in December aimed at forging a three-way free trade deal, China’s commerce ministry has said, citing “some positive developments” in the previous round of negotiations. Since launching the talks in late 2012, the three nations have made little headway toward a deal that, if successful, would create one of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists, famous for leaving shelves bare when they shop abroad, went on a a shopping spree in Korea, Japan and the U.S. during the National Holiday of the People’s Republic of China. According to a Chinese journal, many Chinese tourists visited Korea and Japan during the holidays, with [...]
“I wanted to alert the Korean people to their insensitivity towards peace.” “Yasukuni shrine is a symbolic icon that hides the claws of Japan, that can start a war again. I burned the pictures thinking that I was burning down the shrine.” - Photographer Kwon Chul JEJU, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A pile of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Analysts from Korea Investment & Securities have said that by analyzing Japan’s ‘lost’ decades, Korea can find answers about the business fields that could show structural growth. Lee Su-jeong, a researcher at Korea Investment & Securities, explained that under similar national income levels and population structures, similar lifestyles occur. [...]