SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Shipments of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for South Koreans began Wednesday as health authorities gear up to launch a public inoculation program later this week. The inaugural shipments of vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca were made at a drug manufacturing plant of SK Bioscience Co. [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone shipments plunged 18 percent on-year in the first quarter of the year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a report showed Tuesday, although it remained the top smartphone vendor around the globe. The South Korean tech firm shipped 59 million smartphones in the January-March period, down [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The volume of cargo processed at South Korea’s seaports reached a record high last year despite a global economic slump and the collapse of the country’s leading shipper, the government said Wednesday. Cargo handled at seaports across the nation totaled 1.5 billion tons in 2016, up 2.7 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s exports to Vietnam have more than doubled over the past five years, making it the world’s third-largest importer of South Korean products, a report said Friday, urging local exporters to turn their gaze to newly emerging markets such as Vietnam. In 2015, the country’s outbound shipments to [...]