SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s MAMA Awards, the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards, will be held in Tokyo in November. The awards ceremony will take place on Nov. 28 and 29 at the Tokyo Dome, making it the first Korean music awards show to be held at the venue, Mnet, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties were to depart for Tokyo on Thursday for an annual meeting with their Japanese counterparts. A total of 39 members of the South Korea-Japan Parliamentarians’ Union are scheduled to meet with Korean residents in Japan later Thursday before attending the [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean travelers have shown a preference for Japan as a destination for free travel and Southeast Asian countries for package deals, according to data released by TIMON. Osaka, Japan was the top destination for overseas free travel bookings for departures between January 1 and 14 this year. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Relations between South Korea and Japan appeared headed for a new low Friday, as a Seoul court delivered a landmark ruling ordering Tokyo to compensate its wartime sexual slavery victims amid a protracted row over its colonial-era forced labor. The ruling injected fresh complexities into Seoul’s budding efforts to [...]
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – LeddarTech®, an industry leader in LiDAR technology providing the most versatile and scalable auto and mobility LiDAR platform, announces today that it will join its Japanese distribution partner, Nagase & Co., Ltd, at CAR ELE as part of Automotive World 2020 in Tokyo, Japan from January 15-17, 2020. The Automotive World show brings together a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned Korean boy band BTS has successfully finished its two concerts in Tokyo, drawing a total of 100,000 fans, the group’s management agency said Thursday. BTS performed live about 30 songs, including the Japanese version of “I Need You,” “Run” and “DNA,” during the “Love Yourself” concerts at the [...]
TOKYO, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A business center that helps Korean content production companies advance in Japan opened in Tokyo Thursday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency ran the center’s opening ceremony at the Korean Cultural Center inside the Korean Embassy in the city. The center is [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson returned to the U.S. yesterday after visiting Japan, South Korea and China. It was a much anticipated timely visit during a politically tumultuous period in East Asia: Growing concerns over North Korea’s ballistic missiles, China’s retaliation against South Korea over the deployment of a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will hold a series of events on its traditional food in two major Japanese cities, Osaka and Tokyo, later this week in a bid to revitalize food product exports to the neighboring country, a government ministry said Tuesday. The 2016 K-Food Festa will start on Wednesday for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists to Japan has hit an all-time high this year as the yen’s continued weakness makes travel to the neighboring country cheaper, industry data showed Sunday. A total of 2.86 million South Koreans visited Japan in the first nine months of the year, up [...]