SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system and plant equipment maker, said Tuesday it has obtained a 207.8 billion won (US$176 million) railway project in Taiwan. Hyundai Rotem formed a consortium with Taiwan’s ST Engineering Electronic Ltd. to receive the deal from the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Bureau, [...]
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — On August 8, 2021, during the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, (ASR), one of the leading international societies for the scholarly study of religion, a session was devoted to “Relevant Spirituality: The Tai Ji Men Case and Protests in Taiwan.” This has been one of [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Twenty-one years ago, Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy presented a cultural performance on Capitol Hill and was praised as International Ambassadors of Peace and Goodwill. Twenty-one years later, they have returned to Washington, D.C. to seek justice and publicize their own experience of being religiously persecuted. Recently, over 30 representatives of Action Alliance [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system and plant equipment maker, said its electric trains exported to Taiwan, designed for circular lines, will begin operations Tuesday connecting Keelung and Miaoli stations. The company won a 909 billion won (US$807 million) order from Taiwan to produce 520 electric locomotives [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will land in Japan and Taiwan during the first quarter of this year, South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game Lineage 2 will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game developers are increasingly turning to Taiwan as a ‘forward base’ before hitting the global markets in China and Southeast Asia. Kakao Games, the game developing unit of South Korean mobile giant Kakao, decided to launch “Odin: Valhalla Rising,” the company’s newest mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Under circumstances in which international trips remain halted due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary flight event was held for a group of Taiwanese tourists. The Taipei Office of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), together with Taiwanese travel agency Ezfly International Travel Agent Co. and low-cost [...]
MIAOLI, Taiwan and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Mycenax Biotech, Inc. (4726.TWO), a pioneer of biopharmaceutical development in Taiwan, today announced its adoption of the Berkeley Lights Platform for cell line development. Berkeley Lights, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in Digital Cell Biology, continues to see adoption of the system in Asia Pacific, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Taiwan has strengthened entry restrictions for visitors from South Korea, citing the resurgence in the virus outbreak mostly in the greater Seoul area. South Korea was taken off from Taiwan’s list of foreign countries relatively less prone to coronavirus infection, and business travelers arriving in Taiwan from the South [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday its LED theater display made a debut at a Taiwanese movie theater as the South Korean tech firm tries to expand its presence in the LED cinema sector. LG supplied its first LED cinema display at Showtime Cinemas’ movie theater in Taichung, the first [...]