SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean carmaker Kia Corp. has topped brand sales charts in the Netherlands, led by the popularity of the company’s electric vehicles (EVs) as well as its Sportage SUV. The RAI Automotive Industry NL’s monthly statistics of automobile registration showed that Kia sold 2,954 units of cars in the [...]
LANDOVER, Md., April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — AirBoss Defense Group (ADG) announced today that the Netherlands Defense Meteriel Organisation (DMO) has placed an initial order of 500 Bandolier Multipurpose Lightweight Explosive Clearing Charge Systems as part of a 5-year program to advance their demolitions capabilities. The contract also provides Bandolier training programs for DMO combat [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreign embassy sent flowers of encouragement to medical staff continuously fighting on the frontlines against the coronavirus. The Embassy of the Netherlands in Seoul sent 1,000 tulips to medical staff at the Seoul Medical Center to express their gratitude and encouragement. Tulips is famously known as the national [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the national flag carrier of the Netherlands, offered a public apology Friday for not allowing South Korean passengers to use an on-board toilet due to concerns about the new coronavirus. The incident occurred on a KLM flight to Incheon from Amsterdam on Monday when a [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the opening of the Windpark Krammer in the southwest of the Netherlands in the presence of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, achieved another major milestone on the road to becoming carbon neutral by 2020. Under [...]
Rijswijk, Netherlands, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Upon patent expiry at the end of December 2017, DSM Sinochem Pharmaceutical (DSP) has successfully launched its fully backward integrated, generic Rosuvastatin drug product in multiple Western European countries. The successful launch will be extended to additional countries prior to the end of January, among which is the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Dutch government has intercepted a shipment of generators destined for North Korea in accordance with U.N. resolutions over its nuclear and missile programs, a U.S. broadcaster reported Wednesday. In a Dec. 12 report on its implementation of Resolutions 2371 and 2375 to the U.N. Security Council, the Netherlands [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will ban imports of poultry from the Netherlands, as the European country has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. The move came after the Netherlands confirmed a highly pathogenic H5N6 avian influenza (AI) strain at a local duck farm and [...]
JEJU, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1653, 364 years ago, the first man to leave a written record about the Korean people set foot on Jeju Island soil. Hendrick Hamel and his crew of Dutchmen were on a merchant ship christened “De Sperwer” headed to Japan when fearsome waves and winds in the seas wrecked [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The European Union’s recent acknowledgement that large-scale shipments of eggs from Belgium and the Netherlands may have been contaminated by a pesticide has stores and markets rethinking the sales value of Belgian waffles. The pesticide, Fipronil, is believed to be hazardous to humans. So far, Germany, England, Sweden, Switzerland [...]