SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Communications Commission has announced the results of an Internet survey conducted last year to look into the response to Korean dramas in Turkey and three other countries in the Middle East – Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. The study was based on 27 Korean [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey announced that a canal project that has included Korean construction companies by request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be breaking ground next year. In an interview with local Turkish media Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s transportation minister yesterday revealed that the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual sale offered on November 11 by the Turkish edition of the popular Korean e-commerce website 11Street has become Turkey’s most popular “shopping day” just three years after it was first held. The website known as n11 (www.n11.com) revealed yesterday that it had recorded approximately 50 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) -- South Korean money market funds (MMFs) have suffered huge capital outflow due to growing worries over a financial crisis in Turkey, data showed Wednesday. The MMFs had a combined 91.27 trillion won (US$81.5 billion) under their management as of Friday, the lowest since January 5, 2015, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a statement released by the city government of Cheonan today, Cheonan Mayor Koo Bon-young and his entourage participating in the 19th Büyükçekmece Culture and Arts Festival being held in the city of Büyükçekmece, Turkey visited the homes of Yaşar Erkanlı and Ahmet Özkanı, both Korean War veterans. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A public washroom that was built in a northwestern area of Turkey funded by a Korean municipal government was vandalized just days after it opened to the public. Turkish press reported yesterday that the “Suwon public toilet” that was installed in the coastal Turkish city of Yalova was purposely [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As a season of elections, both parliamentary and presidential, dawn upon Turkey, a series of disparaging and distorted press reports on South Korea have been published. On May 31, Turkish daily Yeni Şafak published a column that criticized the current discourse calling for a “Korean model” of economic development, [...]
ISTANBUL, Nov, 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean writers have met Turkish students in an event to publicize Korean literature in Turkey, organizers said Wednesday. Istanbul University and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea held the event at the university on Tuesday (local time) on the sidelines of the 36th International Istanbul Book Fair. Two Korean [...]
ISTANBUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As the 36th International Istanbul Book Fair opened in Istanbul on Saturday, the Korean pavilion for promoting Korean literature and culture drew a large crowd. With South Korea being the Guest of Honor for this year’s event, Turkish students flocked to the pavilion by twos and threes to get [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A Turkish film festival will be held next week in Seoul to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, the Turkish Embassy said Thursday. The three-day event starting Oct. 27 will feature the screening of six acclaimed films at CGV Yeouido theater. The opening film is “Ayla: The Daughter of War,” a Korea-Turkey joint production about a Turkish sergeant who looks after a Korean orphan during the Korean [...]