SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment has donated 300 million won (US$202,300) to World Vision to support emergency relief efforts and child medical treatment in Myanmar, which was hit by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month. JYP said Wednesday the donation will be used to provide emergency food, daily necessities [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Social and Labor Affairs Committee of the Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, on Tuesday held a prayer ceremony near the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul wishing for democracy in the Southeast Asian country. Ven. Hyemun prayed for the souls of those sacrificed by the Myanmar military junta, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean language test returned to Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. A record-breaking 3,064 people took the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) on Sunday at the University of Yangon Hlaing Campus. The test was canceled in 2020 because [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has issued a joint statement with 20 other countries urging a halt to the supply of arms to Myanmar’s military regime on the occasion of the nation’s Armed Forces Day, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Sunday. The European Union also joined the call for the regime to cease [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the country’s overseas aid agency, said Monday that it will launch a project to improve the health and human rights of female Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh. About 1 million Rohingya refugees are living at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A campaign launched by a South Korean news outlet to help journalists in Myanmar is drawing significant attention. OhmyNews, an Internet-based newspaper in South Korea, said that donations for the campaign that was launched in August to help the Myanmar press passed the 10 million won (US$8,354) mark on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean farm owner in Myanmar has been caught in a dispute between armed forces and rebels in the country. The owner of a rubber tree farm in Myanmar’s Yangon region surnamed Kim, who goes by an alias, was forced to demolish two buildings at the farm on August [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide US$3 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Myanmar to help the country cope with the coronavirus pandemic, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said it will make sure the aid is delivered to the people of Myanmar through “direct and transparent” means, suggesting that [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to offer face masks and COVID-19 diagnostic kits to its citizens in Myanmar next week, the foreign ministry said Friday, amid a spike in new virus cases in the Southeast Asian country. The move followed reports that three South Korean citizens in Myanmar died recently after [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Religious groups in South Korea issued a joint statement on Thursday calling for the international community to take action against the ongoing violent military crackdown in Myanmar following a coup there in February. In a joint press conference held in Seoul, the four groups demanded that the United Nations [...]