SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte showed last week his support for Ronald Dela Rosa, the chief of the Philippine National Police, despite Dela Rosa expressing his will to resign following criticism over the killing of a South Korean businessman by police officers. According to local sources, President Duterte attended Dela [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Three South Koreans have been shot to death in the Philippines, a foreign ministry official said Thursday. The three — two male, one female — were found dead Tuesday with gunshot wounds in their heads, according to the official. Their bodies were found in a sugar cane field in [...]
BOULDER, CO, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) - NetApp SolidFire (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leader in all-flash storage systems built for the Next Generation Data Center, today announced that Globe Telecom, a leading full-service telecommunications company in the Philippines, through its Globe Business group, has deployed NetApp SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out storage platform to support its Virtual Private Cloud and Dedicated Private Cloud [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) - Actor Lee Min-ho was greeted by over 20,000 fans at promotional events in the Philippines for a global fashion brand that he models, his star agency said Sunday. Lee visited the Southeast Asian country from April 2-3 to promote Bench, a British clothing brand that is sold worldwide for whom he is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) - Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole aircraft manufacturer, said Friday that it has made the first delivery of its multi-mission jets to the Philippines, further solidifying its status as an aircraft exporter. The two FA-50PH took off from Sacheon, 437 kilometers south of Seoul, to make the 2,482 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has imposed a travel ban on some areas of the Philippines following a series of violent crimes against its nationals there, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Starting next Tuesday, South Koreans will be banned from visiting or residing in four regions of the southern island of Mindanao [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it will help drastically increase security cameras in the Philippines as part of its latest efforts to prevent crimes against South Koreans. The new security cameras will be set up in a Korean neighborhood in Manila and in areas where South Koreans run businesses, according [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group Rainbow entertained the troops dispatched to support the reconstruction work in the devastated areas hit by super Typhoon Haiyan November last year in the Philippines. During a reality TV show “Real Man,” the members of the program commemorated the rebuilding of Naga-naga Elementary School in the spot together with the [...]