HANOI, VIETNAM, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been, is, and will be the leading investor in Vietnam. The two parties can cooperate to achieve “Dual Goals” of US$100 billion in bilateral trade and total investment in the near future, said Do Nhat Hoang, Director of the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry [...]
WONJU, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, will become the Official Cybersecurity Partner of the BMW Ladies Championship, taking place at the Oak Valley Country Club in the Republic of Korea. The partnership with the BMW Ladies Championship will represent Fortinet’s first sponsorship [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — There is little or no military benefit that can be served by deploying U.S. nuclear weapons to South Korea, U.S. experts said Thursday, insisting such a move would only lead to further escalation with nuclear-armed North Korea. They also argued stationing nuclear-armed submarines in waters near South Korea too may [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The office of President Yoon Suk-yeol is pondering deeply how to cope with intensifying nuclear threats from North Korea amid growing calls that it is time to reintroduce U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to the country or acquire its own nuclear arsenal. Calls for countering nuclear threats with nuclear weapons [...]
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – AvePoint (NASDAQ: AVPT), the most advanced SaaS and data management platform provider, today announced it completed its acquisition of Essential Co. Ltd. (Essential), a South Korea-based software solutions provider that will advance AvePoint’s ability to enable organizations to accelerate data-driven digital transformation. AvePoint is the catalyst of business transformation [...]
TAINAN, TAIWAN, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – At the end of 2019, the Taiwanese TV series “Someday or One Day” was broadcasted in various Asian countries and it created a viral wave for Tainan in the 1990s. There were a lot of discussions amongst the fans when the Series was being filmed in Tainan and with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has drawn investment worth a combined US$1.15 billion from seven North American firms in the semiconductor, battery and energy sectors, which is expected to help strengthen supply chains of key items and boost bilateral economic ties, the industry ministry said Friday. The investment pledges were made during [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukraine, which has been devastated by the Russian invasion, plans to add to its school textbooks the South Korean economic model dubbed the Miracle on the Han River, which refers to the country’s rapid economic growth after the 1950-53 Korean War. According to the South Korean Embassy in Ukraine, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The mutual approval rate between South Korea and Japan has recovered to the levels of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the boycott movement against Japanese products, a survey showed Thursday. The percentage of South Koreans with a favorable view of the neighboring country rose from 20.5 percent last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s push for clean energy, notably hydrogen, offers opportunities for companies like FuelCell Energy Inc. (FCE) to deliver its technologies “well-suited” to help the country achieve its carbon emissions goals, its CEO has said. Jason Few, president and CEO of the U.S. fuel cell platform manufacturer, said the [...]