SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Air Busan Co., a budget carrier unit of Asiana Airlines Inc., said Thursday it will open the Incheon-Vladivostok route in February to meet business travel demand. Air Busan will offer flights to the Russian far eastern port city every two weeks from Feb. 5, the company said in a [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire)– South Korean retail giant Lotte Group said Tuesday that it has recently completed purchasing a hotel and farm in Russia as it moves to expand its presence in the country’s far eastern region. Hotel Lotte, the lodging and accommodation arm of South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate that has sprawling businesses in [...]
VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Thursday proposed expanding economic cooperation between South Korea and Russia in a wide range of areas, including energy, infrastructure and agriculture, noting those projects might set an example of co-prosperity for isolated North Korea. In his address to the third Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to visit Russia next week for a bilateral summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and other heads of state, as well as a regional forum aimed at boosting economic cooperation in Northeast Asia that includes Russia’s Far East, an official from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 full-service carrier, said Friday that it will temporarily suspend flight services to Vladivostok, Bali and Yangon due to weak demand. The company said it will halt flights to Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East starting Feb. 1, while services to Indonesia’s resort of Bali [...]