SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Group’s convenience store chain GS25 said Monday it has opened its 100th outlet in Mongolia since its entry into the East Asian country 16 months ago. GS25 aims to expand the number of outlets in Mongolia to more than 500 by 2025 by launching more customized food products. [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — CU, South Korea’s top convenience store chain, said Thursday it has opened its 200th outlet in Mongolia as part of the company’s push to expand its presence in the landlocked East Asian country. The launch came four years after CU made forays into the Mongolian market through a franchise [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major convenience store chain CU said Thursday it has launched two stores in a new international airport in Mongolia as part of efforts to boost its presence in the country. CU said the company has become the first South Korean convenience store chain that has established outlets [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean convenience store chain CU has announced the launch of a campaign against child abuse and disappearance in Mongolia. BGF Retail Co., the operator of CU, said that the convenience store chain is rolling out the ‘I Care for You’ campaign in Mongolia. The campaign encourages the public [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of South Korean archaeologists has found the mummy of a man wearing Chinese clothes in an unearthed tomb believed to date back about 2,000 years in western Mongolia, a state-run think tank said Monday. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said the team discovered the mummy [...]
JEJU, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeju Tourism Organization, in coordination with local tourism bodies in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is opening two “Mongolian Olle Trail” routes in June, inspired by the famous Jeju Olle Trail on the South Korean island. The first route, stretching 14.5 kilometers in distance, starts at (and returns to) a village [...]
YEONGWOL, South Korea, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Mongolian solar energy company Moshea Eco Energy and Idea Bridge, a Korean asset management firm, finalized a contract earlier this week to build a 50MW solar power plant on 100ha of land near a new airport, some 31km away from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The new plant will [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean discount retailer E-mart said Thursday that it will open its first store in Mongolia later this month as part of efforts to expand presence overseas. The new branch will be opened in central Ulaanbaatar on July 28 and be the country’s first large discount chain that will [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Fifteen major cities and provinces from four Northeast Asian countries will gather in Seoul on Thursday to discuss ways to tackle environmental pollution, the Seoul city government said Tuesday. At the two-day international forum to be held at city hall, the participating cities and provinces will announce the “Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 2,500 North Korean workers have been forced to work in Mongolia and Poland under poor working conditions with their human rights being violated, a South Korean civic group said Wednesday. About 1,800 North Korean workers are being forced to work mainly in Mongolia’s construction sector or in [...]