SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — While oversea travel has become all but impossible due to the coronavirus, South Korean’s top choice of travel destination when the pandemic ends is Southeast Asia. TMON Inc., one of South Korea’s major e-commerce operators, conducted a survey of 946 customers, 60.5 percent of whom picked Southeast Asia as [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-quarantine, referring to the South Korean system of fighting the coronavirus, is leading the war against the pandemic across Southeast Asia, raising the prospects for another surge of the ‘Korean Wave’ amid the coronavirus crisis. The Strait Times, an English-language newspaper in Singapore, reported Tuesday that KK Women’s & [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of high-end consumer goods to Southeast Asia has increased sharply since 2010, data showed Thursday, led mostly by their strong demands for cosmetic goods. The country’s exports of high-end consumer goods, which include beauty and fashion items, along with luxury goods, to Singapore have been expanding [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean grapes and strawberries are gaining popularity in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and state-run Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. (aT) reported grape exports of US$23 million last year, up by 64.2 percent over the previous year. Shine Muscats [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Southeast Asian countries are emerging as a new market for Korean broadcasting content, in line with the government’s aggressive foreign policy initiative called the New Southern Policy, which gained momentum via a South Korea-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special summit in Busan last month. The region can provide [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The cloud affiliate of South Korea’s dominant Internet portal operator, Naver Corp., said Thursday that it has joined hands with Singaporean cloud company Deskera to tap deeper into the Southeast Asian market. Deskera, considered the leading cloud-based platform provider, and Naver Business Platform (NBP) will provide cloud services for [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail and chemical giant Lotte Group is ramping up efforts to tap deeper into Southeast Asia and advanced economies amid falling sales in China, once its biggest overseas market, industry sources said Tuesday. Overseas sales of the conglomerate came to 8.9 trillion won (US$7.49 billion) in 2018, up 7.2 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Southeast Asia has emerged as the most popular tourist destination for South Koreans planning on overseas trips in December, a leading travel agency said Thursday. Hana Tour, the largest travel agency in South Korea, said that as of Wednesday, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations accounted for slightly over [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The “New Southern Policy Initiative” ambitiously being pursued by the South Korean government would require heightened levels of engagement with ASEAN member states. However, a recent study has showed that the understanding of ASEAN countries by South Koreans was very low. This is according to a study titled “Koreans’ [...]
Geneva, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The governments of Cambodia, China, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam have together called for accelerated action to eliminate malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by 2030. Signing a joint Ministerial Call for Action at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the six countries [...]