SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Singapore agreed Wednesday to introduce a “fast-track” entry program this week for essential trips by businesspeople and others in exception to coronavirus entry restrictions, the foreign ministry said. During telephone talks, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Singaporean counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan, reached the agreement on the [...]
LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — YES (Yield Engineering Systems, Inc.), a leading manufacturer of process equipment for the semiconductor advanced packaging, life sciences and “more-than-Moore” markets, today announced it has partnered with ICONNICS, Inc. and Protec Co., Ltd. to open a new customer development and demo center in Incheon, Korea. Through this partnership, [...]
SEOUL, KOREA, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Global technology solutions provider Arrow Electronics, Inc., has been awarded “Great Place to Work for 2018 in Korea” by the Great Place to Work® Institute in an awards ceremony held today in Seoul, for the company’s outstanding employer practices. The award is judged by Great Place to Work® [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Barefoot Networks, a provider of high-performance and fully programmable networking solutions, today announced its participation in Open Networking Korea 2018 Fall, Korea’s premier open networking event, gathering enterprises, service providers and cloud providers from across the ecosystem to share learnings, highlight innovation and discuss the future of Open Source [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) is on track to surpass US$30,000 this year and expected to exceed $40,000 in 2023, a parliamentary report showed Thursday. According to the report by the National Assembly Budget Office (NABO), South Korea’s per-capital GDP is expected to reach $31,862 this year, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — New business trends become widespread as they are introduced from all corners of the globe each year. Recently in the U.S. and the South American country of Brazil, the idea of “sheconomy” has been gaining prominence. “Sheconomy” is a type of marketing strategy that targets women from product planning [...]
SEOUL, KOREA, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s trade growth is expected to continue despite a slight decrease of five points on the DHL Global Trade Barometer released by DHL, the world’s leading logistics company. The country’s overall index stands at 69 points, the second highest of the four Asian countries surveyed. The DHL [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said, in an apparent move to convince Kim to hold his scheduled summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. “President Moon Jae-in held a second summit [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s high-tech industry — a powerhouse of both innovation and export production — will add fire to the country’s trade growth in the coming quarter, according to analysis from the Global Trade Barometer released today by DHL, the world’s leading logistics company. The first ever Global Trade Barometer, an [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Tricor Group has completed its acquisition of International Outsourcing Inc. (IOI), a well-established Korean professional services firm in which it has held a 30% stake since 2013. This will enhance Tricor’s ability to serve clients in Korea, including international firms expanding in this key market. The new [...]