Tag: South Korea

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Korean satire makes history by winning Oscar's Best Picture award

  

  South Korean satire Parasite scored a stunning upset and made Oscars history when it won the Best Picture award– the first film in a foreign language to do so. Oscar's watchers had considered the Best Picture category a three-way race between independent social satire Parasite, British director Sam Mendes' immersive World War One movie 1917 from Universal Pictures, and Quentin Tarantino's love letter to show business, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, from Sony Pictures.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Mercosur and South Korea fourth round of trade talks, this time in Busan

  

  South Korea’s trade ministry said on Monday it plans to hold the fourth round of trade talks with Mercosur as Seoul aims to expand its trade network with emerging countries and revitalize its ailing exports.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  African swine fever in South Korea and Japan: different strains

  

  South Korea on Tuesday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  US/China trade talks back on track, announces Trump. New tariffs on hold

  

  United States president Donald Trump said trade negotiations with China were “back on track” after “excellent” talks on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in which Washington reportedly agreed to hold off on new tariffs.

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  UK/South Korea sign in principle, first a post-Brexit free trade agreement

  

  The UK and South Korea have signed an in principle free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox signed the deal with his South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in Seoul.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  US Treasury monitoring list of countries with large trade surplus and possible currency manipulation

  

  The US Treasury expanded the number of countries subject to scrutiny in a semi-annual report released this week, but again found that neither China nor any other trading partners was manipulating its currency. The treasury urged the Asian giant to avoid allowing the renminbi to weaken persistently - which would give its products a more competitive advantage.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 21:52 UTC

  Peace advocate organization HWPL to discuss Global Peace Building in Bucharest

  

  On the 30th anniversary of the collapse of dictatorship in Eastern Europe and Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding with a network and cooperation from governments and civil society groups will be discussed with 200 participants from different sectors in Bucharest, Romania, and organized by UN ECOSOC member Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL).


• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Digital sex crime epidemic in South Korea; secret filming of some 1.600 hotel rooms

  

  Four men have been arrested in South Korea, accused of secretly filming 1,600 hotel room guests and selling the footage via a website. Mini-cameras were installed in TVs, hair-dryer holders and sockets. The men allegedly earned US$ 6,200.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Foot and mouth disease spreads to the whole of the Korean peninsula

  

  In the wake of the South Korean government’s battle to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease following an outbreak in three farmhouses in the cities of Anseong and Chungju earlier this year, North Korean livestock industry insiders have reported that Pyongyang is also struggling with a nationwide spread of the disease outbreak that began in the middle of January.

• Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazilian consortium interested in Ford's Sao Paulo manufacturing plant

  

  Brazilian automaker CAOA, which produces vehicles with Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co and China’s Chery Automobile Co, is in talks to buy a Ford Motor Co plant in the country that is slated to close by 2019, according to sources reported in the Sao Paulo media.