SEOUL/BUSAN, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering adding Russia to a list of countries requiring stronger quarantine checks as cluster infections on Russian ships have continued to swell, health authorities said Friday. At least 32 sailors on a Russia-flagged fishing vessel docked in the southeastern city of Busan tested positive for the [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of Ecology (NIE), affiliated with the environment ministry, said Thursday it is conducting research on improving breeding grounds to reintroduce storks, a first-class endangered wildlife species, into the country. The study will be conducted jointly with Russia’s Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund. By next [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of beauty products to Russia jumped nearly ninefold in 2019 from five years earlier on the back of the growing popularity of Korean pop culture, data showed Wednesday. South Korea’s exports of beauty products to Russia reached US$137.3 million in 2019, up from $15.5 million posted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A female Yakutian Laika, a Korean-born cloned dog, recently gave birth to seven healthy pups. According to Russian media Tuesday, a female cloned Yakutian Laika in the Sakha Republic mated with a regular male Laika on January 1, giving birth to seven puppies, two male and five female. The [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Russia agreed Tuesday (Moscow time) to launch a fund for the industrial materials and parts sectors, and to speed up free trade negotiations, Seoul’s finance ministry said. During the annual meeting on economic cooperation between South Korea and Russia, held in Moscow, South Korean Finance Minister [...]
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 [...]