SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s video game market was the fifth largest in the world in 2019, falling one position from the previous year, a report showed Monday. The country’s video game market reached sales of 15.6 trillion won (US$14.2 billion) last year, up 9 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. is picking up the pace in its efforts to grow its presence in South Korea, a market that has long been dominated by Samsung smartphones. The U.S. tech giant recently announced that it will open its second official store in South Korea. The store will be located [...]
FREDERICK, Md., Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — RoosterBio, Inc, a leading supplier of innovative cellular therapy bioprocess tools and scalable manufacturing solutions for regenerative medicine, today announced it entered into an exclusive agency agreement with Sartorius Korea Biotech, a subsidiary of the Sartorius Group, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical and life science research [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea joined the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiative (CEPI) and pledged to donate US$3 million this year to help develop vaccines for COVID-19 and other emerging epidemics, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The CEPI is a global partnership joined by public, private and civil society organizations to fund [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – DHL Supply Chain, the global market leader in contract logistics solutions has appointed Edmund Hsiung as Managing Director of DHL Supply Chain South Korea. He has relocated to Seoul and will manage the business operations across 11 facilities, oversee business strategy, new business development, expansion and accelerate [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s favorability among Americans has reached an all-time high this year, partly helped by the growing popularity of K-pop music and other cultural content here, as well as the country’s handling of the new coronavirus outbreak, a U.S. survey showed Monday. Those surveyed gave South Korea’s favorability a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that Airport Railroad Express (AREX), a commuter railway connecting South Korea’s international airports to its capital city, has selected Juniper Networks’ solutions for its upgrade to a modern all-IP based communications network. AREX is South Korea’s first domestic railway to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With the relation between South Korea and Japan assessed as having nose-dived to the lowest point since diplomatic ties were formed in 1965, a recent survey showed that the citizens of both countries have low levels of trust in each other’s leader. According to a survey conducted by the [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing concerns about low fertility rate and population aging, South Korea has the world’s lowest birth rate, according to a report released by the Korea Population, Health & Welfare Association and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) on Tuesday. The ratio of South Koreans under the [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – DHL Global Forwarding South Korea has air freighted more than 1.3 million Covid-19 test kits in the first three weeks of April, to Brazil, Ecuador, India, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia as countries around the world race to curb the spread of Covid-19. Tapping on its global network [...]