SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it will temporarily move some of its smartphone production to Vietnam, after shutting down a local factory following a positive coronavirus test there. Samsung shut down the factory in the southeastern city of Gumi after a worker tested positive for the new coronavirus. Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Lubricants Co., an affiliate of refiner SK Innovation Co., said Sunday it has made a stake investment in a Vietnamese lubricants company for an expansion into Asian markets. SK Lubricants signed a deal to acquire a 49 percent stake in Mekong, Vietnam’s biggest lubricants company, on Friday to [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it has resumed exports of persimmons to Vietnam after the two countries reached an agreement on terms over quarantine conditions. Exports of persimmons to Vietnam have been stalled since 2015 when Vietnam adopted a new quarantine regulation that called for tougher examinations for possible disease [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean TV channel SBS’ popular reality dating show, “Jjak,” will be reproduced and aired in Vietnam this month, the channel said Friday. Vietnamese TV channel HTV7 will air the first episode of the Vietnamese version, “The Love Game,” during prime time next Friday, according to SBS. The South [...]
TONGYEONG, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Hang-seo, South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men’s senior and under-23 (U-23) football teams, has brought the junior side to his native land for winter training this month. But it’ll be part training camp and part excursion. After Vietnam captured their first-ever gold medal at the Southeast [...]
HANOI, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Whatever Park Hang-seo is preaching to his players on the Vietnamese men’s national football teams, it’s working. The South Korean head coach for both the senior and the under-23 teams in Vietnam has reached heights that none of his predecessors did. Most recently, he led the U-23 squad to [...]
SANCHEONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Villagers in South Korea’s southeastern county of Sancheong have gone crazy over the news that the Vietnamese national football team, led by South Korean coach Park Hang-seo, won its first Southeast Asian Games football gold on Tuesday. Sancheong is the hometown of Park, who has become a national hero [...]
HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A craze to learn the Korean language is rapidly spreading in Vietnam owing to the great popularity of Korean pop culture and deepening economic relationship between the two countries, a Korean language center said Monday. According to the Korean Language Education Center, 5,290 students currently study [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnamese science minister was found to have recently presented a smartphone made by Vietnamese technology to his South Korean counterpart. According to Vietnamese media outlet, Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh gave South Korean Science and ICT Minister Choi Ki-young a Vsmart Live, a smartphone produced [...]
SANCHEONG, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Sancheong County in southeastern South Korea, which has gained fame as the hometown of Park Hang-seo, the popular South Korean head coach of Vietnam’s national football team, will push to build a Vietnam-friendly village to attract more tourists from the Southeast Asian country, officials said Saturday. The South Gyeongsang [...]