SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Thailand is the country that has the greatest number of students studying the Korean language. Of the approximately 130,000 teenage students studying Korean worldwide, nearly 30 percent (37,000 students) are Thai. A total of 118 schools in the Thailand have chosen Korean as the second language taught in their [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, the annual global festival of the Korean Wave, or the global popularity of Korean pop culture, will expand into Thailand this year to tap into the broader Southeast Asian region with 650 million people, the festival’s organizer said Thursday. The KCON 2018 Thailand will open Sept. 29 for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — To commemorate the fifth anniversary of boyband BTS’ debut, fans in Thailand donated blood as part of charity efforts reflecting their favorite band’s own public campaign. The fans known as the “Thai A.R.M.Y” revealed yesterday that they collectively donated more than 200 liters of blood to celebrate the anniversary. [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering Co. said Thursday it has won a 290 billion won (US$272 million) order to build a petrochemical plant in Thailand. The South Korean company said its President Sung Sang-rok and his counterpart at Bangchak Corporation Public Company Ltd., Chaiwat Kovavisarach, signed the deal in the Thai capital [...]
BANGKOK, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) - The average marks for the Korean language test were the highest among those for seven foreign languages, including Japanese and Chinese, in this year’s Thai college exam, the Korean Education Center said Thursday. In the exam, known as the Professional and Academic Aptitude Test and conducted by the National Institute of Educational Testing Service in February, the average score of the 4,087 students who [...]
BANGKOK, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In its first year as a possible foreign language option for the college entrance exams, around 10 percent of all Thai foreign language test takers have chosen Korean. According to Thailand’s testing body — the NIEST — 5,504 test takers have selected Korean as their foreign language requirement on [...]
SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, has announced expansion into Thailand as part of its strategic growth plan. It will provide Managed Security Services (MSS) and specialized Professional Security Services based on its strength in Global Threat Intelligence and Cyber Threat Advanced Analytics accumulated through global [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Electric and Energy Systems Co., a unit of top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., said Wednesday that it has set up a company in Thailand to strengthen its presence in the Asian region. The new energy solutions unit, along with another one in Singapore, will help the company [...]
PHOENIX, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSFT), a global market share leader in cloud business software for unified communication as a service (UCaaS), and provider of collaboration and contact center as a service (CCaaS), announced the commercial launch of AIS Business Cloud UC, a cloud PBX and unified communications (UC) service based on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Thailand have agreed to double the number of designated airlines on their bilateral routes as Seoul tackles declining travel demand from China, the transport ministry said Wednesday. At the aviation talks held in Busan, 450 kilometers south of Seoul, Koo Bon-hwan, director general of the Aviation [...]