The winner of Netflix show Physical 100, Woo Jin-yong explains how his CrossFit training, experience and strategising helped him beat younger and stronger contestants.
Studios at K-Pop Ground house sets previously featured in popular videos and allow visitors to customise the music, lighting and background – all at no cost.
K-Pop Ground, part of the HiKR Ground complex, has five studios, with backdrops seen in BTS and Aespa music videos, that allow visitors to choose their music, shoot their own video, and save it on a USB stick, all free of charge.
K-pop superstars BTS’ V and Blackpink’s Jennie have supposedly been spotted in Paris, holding hands and walking by the Seine. A video was posted online, and rumours started flying about a romance between the two.
68 years old today, Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat – ‘fat gor’ to his many fans – cut his teeth in movies 4 decades ago. We recall four early films that helped launch his career, including a gangster classic.
Peres Projects, a gallery based in Berlin, recently moved from a hotel basement to a four-storey space in the South Korean capital’s art district. Korean collectors’ openness to new art was a big factor, its founder says.
The Hong Kong Dance Awards 2023 celebrated the achievements of dance professionals who created incredible productions and performances while still under the shadow of the pandemic.
South Korea’s 14th Gwangju Biennale is partly taking place in Yangnim-dong, a bohemian neighbourhood of mom-and-pop stores, trendy restaurants and art galleries in the southern city.
The art world is mourning the death of Ju Ming, the Taiwanese sculptor who paved the way for broader international appreciation of contemporary art that referenced Chinese cultural heritage.
Korean-born Sook-kyung Lee has a high position at London’s Tate Modern, but has always wanted to curate the Gwangju Biennale in her home country, having attended the first one in 1995. This year she got her wish.
The ‘Gwangju spirit’ inspired by city’s 1980 uprising against military rule and its bloody suppression infuses some of the art on show at this year’s Biennale, with its themes of coexistence and resisting oppression.
South Korean deputy trade minister Jeong Dae-jin met Song Junji, the vice-governor of Shandong province, in Seoul on Friday to discuss ways to recover economic cooperation following the coronavirus pandemic.
South Korea surpassed China to take No 1 spot for global ship orders in February, though analysts say the ship ordering market is highly volatile and ‘China’s dominance’ in terms of quantity.
A new survey has found that the recent deterioration in relations between Beijing and Seoul seems to have affected Korean product sales, with negative perceptions of South Korea’s image playing a growing part in consumer decisions.
Flights between China and South Korea had dropped from around 1,100 per week in 2019 to 62 last month due to coronavirus restrictions, but officials from both countries have agreed to remove curbs.
An American Chamber of Commerce in China survey showed 45 per cent of firms ranked China as a top-three investment priority in their near-term investment plans, down from 60 per cent last year.
After a year of war in Ukraine, pandemic disruptions and technological-containment efforts by the West, many international firms are struggling to map out a future in which their China operations remain intact.
China has sought for years to internationalise the yuan, but recent moves by Iran and Russia are far from initiating ‘real, meaningful change’, according to analysts who say larger economies would need to get on board.
Makers of automobiles and smartphones have been hardest hit, with years of rapidly deteriorating sales in the mainland Chinese market. And major players are diversifying their supply chains to places such as India.
The number of Chinese applying to visit South Korea has more than doubled in the first week after Seoul resumed issuing short-term visas, signalling the end of a dispute over travel curbs between the two Asian neighbours.
South Korea, once the darling of the world’s shipbuilding industry, is now in a distant second place despite maintaining a technological edge in the realm of highly coveted LNG carriers.
China saw more inbound containers than outbound ones in January as the country reopened, with factory output hindered by coronavirus outbreaks and holiday closures.
China must make reforms to keep state firms competitive, continue opening up and gradually lift the retirement age if it wants to maximise its growth potential, the International Monetary Fund says.
South Korea announced a record trade deficit in January, as exports to China tumbled 31.4 per cent and the value of energy imports jumped amid elevated winter demand and high global prices.
Washington’s updated list comes as economic ties between the superpowers remain strained, and as America has ramped up its tech-containment efforts targeting China.
IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update, released on Tuesday, also reflects a much more optimistic outlook for the US economy than was expected three months ago.
South Korean carmakers are urging Seoul to do more to boost export competitiveness in the face of China’s fast-growing auto industry, especially in the field of electric vehicles.
China’s annual soybean harvest increased by nearly a quarter in 2022 as Beijing ramped up its self-sufficiency drive, but agricultural officials say domestic output must continue rising to meet demand.
Vietnam is taking note of China’s successes and failures over the past five decades as it accelerates its own industrialisation and positions itself to take advantage of multinationals looking to diversify from the mainland.
A growing number of foreign firms in China are considering alternative production bases such as Vietnam after enduring three years of zero-Covid restrictions, two new surveys show.
