INCHEON, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 Myanmar refugees who came to South Korea from camps in Thailand and other places from 2015 to 2018 have all successfully resettled in the Bupyeong district of Incheon, about 40 kilometers west of Seoul, government officials said Monday. A total of 112 refugees from Myanmar arrived [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been assessed that South Korea’s resettlement refugee program, which has been operating as a pilot project since 2015, has achieved successful outcomes compared to overseas cases. According to a case study report released at the end of last year by the Ministry of Justice, Myanmar refugees who [...]
INCHEON, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — At Incheon’s Bupyeong Station, one can easily find stains of what looks like a red paint on the ground and on trees. The red stains begin at the station, and continue all the way to a nearby motel complex. Locals making use of the station have complained about the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will ship about 37 tons of fresh fruit to Myanmar to assess its potential and build effective distribution channels in the local market, Seoul’s agriculture ministry said Thursday. Gyeongbuk Corporation, a South Korean food wholesaler and exporter, will ship 7 tons of apples and 8 tons of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — KB Kookmin Card Co. said Thursday it is pushing to tap into Myanmar’s credit card market after getting the nod to set up an office in the Southeast Asian country. KB Kookmin Card, a unit of South Korea’s banking giant KB Financial Group Inc., said it won approval from [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and five Southeast Asian countries surrounding the Mekong River agreed on Friday to strengthen diplomatic and economic cooperation during an annual high-level meeting in the southern port city of Busan. The 7th Mekong-Republic of Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting adopted a new action plan outlining the long-term vision [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it introduced three buses equipped with IT facilities in Myanmar to provide underprivileged children with educational programs. The South Korean tech giant first introduced “Samsung Mobile Education Bus” in Myanmar in 2015. The company said the new buses are equipped with a class room [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Hotel & Resorts, the hotel arm of South Korean retail giant Lotte Group, said Tuesday it will open its eighth foreign hotel chain in Myanmar next month, as it attempts to tap deeper into overseas market. Lotte Hotel & Resorts said the new hotel in Yangon, the former [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Two hundred South Korean-made buses will be exported to Yangon, the former capital and the largest city of Myanmar, for use by schools, South Korea’s trade promotion agency said Monday. According to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), the 29-seat New County buses, manufactured by South Korea’s top automaker [...]