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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of narcotics offenders in South Korea rose 19.3 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, due largely to the widespread use of the Internet as a channel to more easily trade the banned substances, a report showed Monday. The tally of drug offenders came to 14,214 at [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and five Southeast Asian countries surrounding the Mekong River agreed on Friday to strengthen diplomatic and economic cooperation during an annual high-level meeting in the southern port city of Busan. The 7th Mekong-Republic of Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting adopted a new action plan outlining the long-term vision [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign workers walked a red carpet strewn with flowers at Incheon International Airport yesterday as employees from the Human Resources Development Service of Korea and the embassies of Thailand, and Vietnam cheered on. The ceremony was held for five workers who had completed the maximum duration of nine years [...]
BANGKOK, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean singer Rain on Sunday expressed happiness about the pregnancy of his actress wife Kim Tae-hee, saying he has always yearned for a life with a family and he “could not be any happier now.” Rain made the remarks during an interview in Bangkok after attending this year’s [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Wongsarot Auratsa, a 77-year-old Thai woman, recently became the oldest Thai candidate to take the Korean language proficiency exam, TOPIK. Although Mrs. Auratsa failed to pass the test, on March 19, she was close, according to the Korean Education Center in Thailand. Mrs. Auratsa lives with her son [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of 500 Thai tourists is visiting Yongpyong Resort in Gangwon Province from April 13 to 15 for a special snow experience, the Korea Tourism Organization said Tuesday. According to officials, the sled experience offered by the ski resort (using not yet melted snow) is part of a [...]
BANGKOK, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s oldest and one of its most respected higher education institutes, will open a Korean language major for undergraduate students next year, the Korea Education Institution said Thursday. The university revealed a plan to set up the major on Wednesday when it held a Korea festival as [...]