SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. President Donald Trump was the most popular leader of South Korea’s other neighboring heads of state, including Russia, China, Japan, and North Korea, although more than half of the respondents said they had no leader they were particularly keen on. According to public opinion research firm Realmeter, 56.2 [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye on Monday called North Korea’s continued provocations a challenge to relations between South Korea and China, voicing her hope for Seoul and Beijing to turn the situation into an opportunity to further strengthen their bilateral relationship. She made the remarks during her summit with Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Fewer South Koreans said they think positively of Chinese President Xi Jinping this month compared to early July, a local public opinion poll showed Thursday. The result has been attributed to the growing diplomatic row between South Korea and China over the planned deployment of an advanced U.S. missile [...]
BEIJING, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected troops in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, near the sensitive border with its traditional ally, North Korea, according to China’s state media on Friday. Xi inspected senior military officials and soldiers stationed in Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital, and an outpost on Tuesday and Wednesday, and [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese media have reported that a couple of pandas promised to Korea at the Korea-China summit of 2014 will be arriving at Incheon airport on March 3. The two-year-old and three-year-old panda couple will depart China from Chengdu International Airport in Sichuan Province on a special Korean Airlines charter. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun research into the possible introduction of visa waivers for Chinese on a gradual basis as Seoul’s economic and political ties with Beijing improved drastically in recent years. The Foreign Ministry has asked a research center affiliated with the International Organization for Migration to write a report on [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A top executive of South Korea’s biggest amusement park operator, Samsung Everland, has held talks with China’s foreign ministry officials, during which they discussed preparations to send giant pandas to Seoul, according to the Chinese ministry on Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping made a state visit to South Korea in [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — When President Xi Jinping of China visited South Korea earlier this month, around 200 business delegates, including CEOs of major Chinese IT companies like Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei and China Telecom, accompanied him on the trip. All of the Chinese companies are reportedly, gearing up to push deeper into Korean market with [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Fitin, Korea’s one of the largest department stores located in the fashion town of Seoul, Dongdaemoon, is savoring the “Peng Liyuan effect” as the store’s sales skyrockets after a visit from China’s first lady early this month. Lotte Fitin announced on July 22 that since the surprise visit [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea EximBank said on July 4 that it would provide a shipping finance worth US$295 million to China’s Minsheng Financial Leasing that has signed a deal to purchase three 18,400-TEU containerships from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. Of the loans that the Korean state-run bank provides, 50 percent will be guaranteed [...]