SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Thursday it will launch a car-sharing startup in Russia this year as part of its business diversification strategy. On Wednesday (local time), Hyundai signed a partnership with the Board of Skolkovo Foundation to establish a car-sharing company in the [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean government agency said Tuesday it has uncovered Russian newspaper articles on the burial site of revered Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun, possibly providing a new clue to the whereabouts of his long-lost remains. The National Archives of Korea (NAK) disclosed 24 Russian newspaper stories, which were [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Yu Gwan-sun, the South Korean independence fighter responsible for organizing the March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule, was added to the Russian version of Wikipedia last Friday. The entry contained detailed information about the national hero, including her life as an independence activist, her trials, and her [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean has become the third most popular foreign language in Russia following English and Chinese. Kazan Federal University’s Center of Korean Studies announced on Tuesday that it will host the first National Korean Olympiad. The center has been holding annual competitions on the Korean language for the past nine [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Koreans believe their national football team will fail to advance from the group stage of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia, a poll showed Monday. In a survey of 500 South Koreans aged 19 or older by Realmeter, 54.7 percent said they didn’t [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The nation’s capital and other major cities are planning street cheering events for South Korean matches at the FIFA World Cup in Russia, hoping to create buzz for an event that has been overshadowed by political and diplomatic events here. Seoul announced earlier this week that it will organize [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In line with Samsung Electronics’ new plans to nurture AI as its new motor of growth, the Korean electronics giant will open an AI Center in Moscow on May 29 (local time). In addition to its AI centers in Seoul and Silicon Valley, both having opened within the last [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — “K-beauty” products are gaining a foothold in new markets outside of China and Southeast Asia. While shipments to China comprises around 40 percent of all South Korean cosmetics exports, the geopolitical standoff over U.S. missile defense installations last year has spurred on companies to establish a presence in Africa, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Russia have agreed to beef up cooperation in the energy sector on a wide range of areas, including natural gas, electricity and renewable energy development, the Seoul government said Wednesday. Pak Won-ju, South Korean deputy energy minister at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, held [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Friday it carried out more than 14,000 doping tests last year ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, marking a whopping 70 percent on-year growth. The IOC said the tests were conducted between April and December on around 6,000 athletes from 61 countries taking [...]