SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – In partnership with Japanese investment companies, domestic startup businesses are hoping to target the Japanese market. KOTRA, the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation, signed an agreement with startup businesses and Japanese venture capital firms (VCs) as part of its ‘Startup Growth’ initiative. ‘Startup Growth’ is a program that connects overseas [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A chopstick-themed cultural festival, the first of its kind around the globe, will kick off in this provincial city in November, organizers said Monday, as part of a project to enhance cultural exchanges among three nations in the Northeast Asian region. Under a joint cultural project, South [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Koreans, Chinese and Japanese citizens that travel abroad, it was revealed that Koreans traveled most frequently, Chinese spent the most money and Japanese went to faraway places most often. Visa card reported the results of its ’2015 Visa Survey on Travel Plans’, in which 13,603 people from 25 [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The board of directors of Japan-based Lotte Holdings Co., the de facto holding firm of Lotte Group, voted Tuesday to sack the group’s founder as chief executive and general chairman, group officials in Seoul said, giving his second son control over the retail giant. At an emergency meeting, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A subsidiary of South Korea’s largest cinema chain, CJ CGV, has added six 4DX movie theaters in Japan, the company said Tuesday. The six recently opened at multiplex theaters in six cities, including Sapporo, Maebashi and Himeji, CJ 4DXPlex Co. said in a release. The 4DX auditoriums in Sapporo [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An experts panel of the International Labor Organization called Japan’s conscription of Korean and other workers during World War II a violation of a convention banning forced labor, a report published in 1993 and obtained by Yonhap News Agency on Friday showed. On Sunday, Japan inscribed a set of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade dependence on Japan has dropped to the lowest level in decades, apparently affected by their worsening diplomatic ties and the global economic slowdown, a report showed Thursday. According to the report by the Korea International Trade Association, South Korea’s trade with Japan during the January-May period [...]
GWANGJU, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Another Korean sex-slavery victim passed away on June 11 in Gwangju. Now, only 51 women are left as survivors among 238 Korean women officially registered as victims of Japan’s sex slavery enforcement during World War Ⅱ. Kim Eo-Hwan was born in 1934, and forced into sex slavery at the [...]
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Experts in stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) from all over the globe will be presenting Brainlab software innovations at this year’s International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress in Yokohama. With the theme of this year’s congress “Meet the Experts and Share the Experiences”, Brainlab will provide a platform for these leading [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is conducting a military drill to defend its easternmost islets of Dokdo amid Japan’s renewed claims to the territory, military officers said Friday. The Navy, jointly with the Coast Guard, “are carrying out the two-day drill from yesterday on and around the rocky outcroppings in the East [...]