SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop fan club in Thailand visited slums to share end-of-year compassion with the poor. Some 30 members of the BTS and So Ji-sub fan clubs visited Khlong Toei, a downtown slum in Bangkok last Friday. They were the winners of the K-pop cover dance festival held by the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will donate AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam and Thailand, as it has enough doses to inoculate its own people and help other countries, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. South Korea is set to ship 1.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam and 470,000 doses to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lisa of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has offered to help improve children’s education in her hometown in Thailand, a South Korean foundation said Thursday. The rapper-dancer expressed an interest in joining a social program led by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange in Buriram Province, where she was [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it will begin the sale of the Staria minivan in Thailand this week as it strives to increase its presence in Southeast Asian markets. Hyundai also plans to begin introducing the Staria minivan in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia in the third quarter, a company [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Sunday it signed a deal to export US$11.14 million worth of 5G solutions and content to Thailand’s top mobile carrier, Advanced Info Service (AIS). Under the deal, LG Uplus will provide AIS with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that ThaiSri, one of Thailand’s largest insurers, has selected Juniper Networks’ AI-driven solutions to upgrade and automate the management of its network infrastructure. With their refreshed AI-driven network, ThaiSri can now centrally manage and orchestrate devices and services, substantially [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting offline events, a new type of roadshow that features convergence between online and offline is becoming a new normal in COVID-19 era. A string of such events were held in Thailand, one of few successful countries in light of efforts to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of foodstuffs to Thailand rose 14.7 percent in the first half of 2020, data showed Thursday, on the back of rising demand for ready-to-eat products amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Outbound shipments of foodstuffs to the Southeast Asian country reached US$112 million over the January-June period, [...]
CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Amlan International has named Dr. Kreangkrai “Pong” Sangthongdang as Thailand Country Manager, leading local business development efforts. Amlan International is a subsidiary of Oil-Dri Corporation of America (NYSE: ODC), a leading manufacturer of sorbent minerals. Sangthongdang brings more than 22 years of experience in the feed industry, focused on [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Korean agricultural and fisheries exports to Thailand are experiencing a downturn due to the coronavirus outbreak, Korean hot pepper paste known as “gochujang” has managed to achieve growth in recent months. The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. (aT) Thailand office reported that South Korean agricultural and [...]