SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ likability for Japan has increased amid the deteriorating relations between South Korea and Japan over the past few years. On the contrary, Japan’s favorability towards South Korea has declined, according to a recent survey. The East Asia Institute (EAI), a private South Korean think tank, and Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Men in managerial and specialized jobs in South Korea and Japan have a higher mortality rate than in Europe, a study found. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands published the study in the online edition of the Journal of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan continue to engage in a relay of drama remakes as Japan’s Fuji TV plans to release a remake of a South Korean drama, “Two Weeks” (2013). In Japan, various remakes of South Korean dramas are soon to hit three broadcasting stations next month. Haruma Miura, [...]
SEJONG, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s global competitiveness ranking fell by one notch this year as exports and facility investments slowed down, an international institute said Wednesday. The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) said in its annual report that South Korea ranked 28th in terms of world competitiveness among 63 countries surveyed, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 million South Korean moviegoers have watched the 21 Marvel films over the last 11 years. With “Avengers: Endgame,” accumulated audience numbers are expected to hit 120 million people. What led the success of the Marvel cinematic universe was “Iron Man”, which gained massive popularity around the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was ranked 54th among 156 states in the list of the happiest countries in the world. Finland was ranked first for the second year in a row. The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) released the 2019 World Happiness Report on Wednesday, according to which South Korea [...]
SAN FRANCISCO and HONG KONG, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Lucidworks, the leader in AI-powered search applications, announces their first distributor agreement in APAC with Korean low-code development platform, Tobesoft. Tobesoft is now the sole distributor in Korea of Lucidworks Fusion, a development platform for teams to design, build, and deploy powerful search and data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s auto production tumbled for a third consecutive year in 2018 amid weaker domestic and global demand, data showed Sunday. According to the data by the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), South Korea produced 4.03 million vehicles last year, down 2.1 percent from the previous year. The figure [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean exports are forecast to decline in 2019, as outbound shipments contracted for two months in a row, economic organizations and observers said Wednesday. The poor export showings in December and January marked the first time in 27 months that shipments have fallen in consecutive months on an [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Tension is rising between South Korea and Japan with the two counties exchanging YouTube videos accusing each other of the radar incident involving a Japanese military aircraft and a South Korean naval vessel. The South Korean government posted a new YouTube video with subtitles in Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, [...]