SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — China on Monday reiterated its call for South Korea to adhere to the “One China” policy amid a growing diplomatic spat between the two neighbors over Taiwan. The two countries have traded harsh words since President Yoon Suk Yeol last week expressed opposition to any attempts to alter the [...]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) - The “2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival” is the first major large-scale international tourism event after the relaunch of inbound tourism in Taiwan, with the iconic event returning to Taipei after a 23-year absence. As an “urban lantern festival” set in vast area spanning 168 hectares in the heart of Taipei [...]
GENEVA, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Temenos (SIX: TEMN) today announced that Next Commercial Bank (Next Bank), a new digital bank backed by Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom operator, has gone live on Temenos core banking platform, opening to customers during 2022. One of the first digital banks in Taiwan to receive a virtual banking license from the [...]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV (CI IV), has been allocated 500-600 MW of capacity in the first round of the Taiwan’s Round 3 Zonal Development offshore wind auction. On 14 December 2022 it was announced that CI IV’s Fengmiao offshore wind project, located [...]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) - To publicize the opening of Taiwan’s borders on October 13, the Tourism Bureau organized the itinerant Taiwanese gourmet food truck activity in Korea featuring a surprise appearance by the Tourism Bureau spokescouple Kim Jae-woo and his wife!! They joined forces with Oh!Bear, the Tourism Bureau’s mascot, to support the [...]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) - To celebrate the reopening of Taiwan’s borders, after Tourism Bureau spokescouple Kim Jae-woo and his wife’s IG live broadcast in Shilin Night Market, the Tourism Bureau invited them to attend the Taiwanese food truck event. Those who want to enjoy complimentary bubble tea and miner’s bento can do so [...]
TAINAN, TAIWAN, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – At the end of 2019, the Taiwanese TV series “Someday or One Day” was broadcasted in various Asian countries and it created a viral wave for Tainan in the 1990s. There were a lot of discussions amongst the fans when the Series was being filmed in Tainan and with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Wih China staging live-fire military drills around Taiwan on Thursday in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, South Korean airlines are facing an operational setback. Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s national flag carrier operating direct flights to Taiwan five times a week, has [...]
TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Fluence Energy, Inc. (“Fluence”) (NASDAQ: FLNC), a leading global provider of energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage, today announced a strategic partnership with Rich Electric, a Taiwanese company with expertise in power conversion and battery-based energy storage systems. Through this partnership, Fluence and Rich Electric will [...]
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 [...]