HANOI, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A class on Korean family culture has been launched in Vietnam to help educate local brides of their new lives in Korea. The classes are intended to prevent daughter and mother-in-law conflicts, as a portion of Vietnamese wives end up living with their Korean in-laws. Having run other classes [...]
HANOI, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The race is on between domestic banks to venture into the Vietnamese market, which has been dubbed the ‘post-China’ economy. The growth rate of the Southeast Asian nation has continued to be high at 6 percent over the last few years, and over 6,500 Korean firms have already entered [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the number of Korean corporations entering the Vietnamese market on the rise, competition among Korean law firms eyeing the local legal market has become intense. One such law firm, Sejong, formally opened an office in the capital city of Hanoi on Tuesday. This comes approximately one year after [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Nonghyup said Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its Vietnamese counterpart to increase agricultural products trade and the expansion of Nonghyup’s financial services in the Southeast Asian country. Nonghyup is South Korea’s agricultural cooperative whose key stakeholders include farms and other agricultural businesses. In addition [...]
HANOI, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in dropped by a no-frills rice noodle restaurant in Hanoi for breakfast on Saturday to mingle with ordinary Vietnamese citizens on the last leg of his three-day state visit there. Moon, accompanied by first lady Kim Jung-sook, visited “Pho 10 Ly Quoc Su,” a famous [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam is expected to outstrip the United States as South Korea’s second-largest export destination in 2020 thanks to a bilateral free trade deal, a report said Tuesday. “Bilateral trade is expected to exceed US$100 billion in 2020, making Vietnam the No. 2 destination for South Korean exports after China,” [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of South Korea’s major business groups and economic organizations will accompany President Moon Jae-in on his visit to Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next week to further strengthen economic cooperation, industry sources said Friday. Moon will visit Vietnam and the UAE between March 22 and 27 [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in is likely to meet Park Hang-seo, the South Korean coach of the Vietnamese national football team, and his players during his planned trip to Vietnam late this month, sources here said Wednesday. Park has become a national hero among the Vietnamese people as he made an unprecedented achievement in Vietnamese football history in January when his team finished second at [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Corp., the holding company of South Korean retail giant Lotte, said Friday it will continue to make major investments in Vietnam, as its head met with the country’s premier to seek support for the company’s various ongoing projects in the Southeast Asian country. During his meeting with Prime [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Fresh off steering Vietnam’s men’s soccer squad to a tightly contested finals loss against champion Uzebkistan in the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, South Korean head coach Park Hang-seo was greeted with considerable fanfare in his return home on February 8. A soccer lifer who served as an assistant under [...]