SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hana Bank, a major bank, said Tuesday that it has opened a branch in Taiwan, marking the first for any South Korean lender to start operation there. Hana Bank’s Taipei branch went in operation Monday, 10 months after the Taiwanese authorities approved the setup of the branch. Hana Bank [...]
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Fluence Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLNC), a leading global provider of energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage, announced today that Fluence and TECO Group have been awarded the 60 MW battery-based energy storage system for Taiwan Power Company’s Taoyuan Longtan ultra-high voltage substation. Fluence will continue to leverage its [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 representatives of worldwide Tai Ji Men dizi (disciples) gathered in Washington, D.C., on December 5-7 to protest against the Taiwanese government’s indifference to their case, a major case of religious persecution, and against its connivance with a few bureaucrats who have broken the law and abused their power. Over [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — President Joe Biden is expected to convene the Summit for Democracy on Dec. 9, and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) reported in November that by participating in the Summit, Taiwan, as a leading democracy, could make meaningful contributions to the fight against corruption, authoritarian regimes, and the promotion [...]
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 [...]