SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Singapore agreed Saturday to elevate their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership, pledging closer cooperation across security, technology, and economic sectors as both nations navigate rising geopolitical uncertainty. President Lee Jae Myung and Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced the upgrade following a summit at the presidential [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior defense officials of South Korea and Singapore met in Seoul on Wednesday and agreed to expand their cooperation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the countries’ bilateral ties, Seoul’s defense ministry said. In the talks, Vice Defense Minister Lee Doo-hee and his Singaporean counterpart, Chan Heng [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Taihan Cable & Solution Co., South Korea’s second-biggest cable company, said Friday it has won a 840 billion-won (US$630.2 million) high-voltage cable order from Singapore’s state power company. Taihan Cable said in a regulatory filing that it obtained the deal from SP PowerAssets Ltd. of Singapore to supply and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville, the restaurant arm of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, said Monday its bakery franchise Tous les Jours will open its first outlet in Singapore within this year. CJ Foodville has signed a master franchise contract with Royal T Group, the parent firm of a variety of [...]
BANGKOK, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Following controversy in Malaysia, a planned DJ performance by the Korean comedian Youn Sung-ho, known as the New Jeans Nim, has run into opposition from Buddhist groups in Singapore, prompting authorities to step in. On May 22, Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Singapore’s home affairs minister, stated on social media that the police [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s autonomous vehicle joint venture in the United States plans to manufacture its self-driving electric vehicles in the group’s newly launched innovation hub in Singapore, the company said Wednesday. Motional, the joint venture established between Hyundai and U.S. mobility startup Aptiv in 2020, will produce its all-electric [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group announced on Wednesday the completion of an initiative aimed at projecting and addressing future transportation demand within Singapore’s flagship smart industrial park, the Jurong Innovation District (JID). Spanning a 10-month period from April 2022 to January 2023, this endeavor was undertaken in collaboration with the Jurong [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Bhc Group said Thursday it has opened its first bhc chicken store in Singapore as part of its efforts to break into the Southeast Asian market. The store opened at a shopping complex in Marina Square located on Marina Bay, a popular tourist spot, on Wednesday. The store plans [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc.’s convenience store chain Emart24 on Friday opened its first store in Singapore, company officials said, becoming the first Korean convenience store chain to operate in the city state amid the retailer’s push for overseas expansion. The first store is located in the Jurong Point shopping center, west of [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of regulated markets for 12,000 U.S. and international securities, is pleased to announce that it has hired Catherine Chao Shang, as Vice President, Corporate Services and Market Data Business Development, headquartered in Singapore. OTC Markets Group’s expansion into Asia is part of a broader [...]