Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura is ceasing all retail operations in South Korea this September, after entering the neighbouring Asia nation some 16 years ago.…
Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura is ceasing all retail operations in South Korea this September, after entering the neighbouring Asia nation some 16 years ago.…
More Japanese tourists have visited South Korea than South Koreans have visited the Asian neighbor since August.…
Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo is again embroiled in controversy in Korea for a contentious advertisement that Koreans believe tries to make a political statement about wartime forced labor and sex sl…
A growing number of retailers are removing DHC products from their shelves as the boycott of the Japanese skincare brand widens after controversial remarks were made on DHC’s subsidiary DHC Television…
It seems that brands are slowly learning how to handle this type of crises; however, those episodes have now become a never-ending witch hunt! Once, one is spotted, a long tail of others fall behind i…
Imports of Japanese cars and beer fell sharply in July due to the spreading boycott of Japanese products amid a trade dispute with Tokyo, data from the Korea Customs Service (KCS) showed.…
Amid the widening anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea following Tokyo’s retaliatory trade restrictions, Japanese cosmetics have become a new target of Korean consumers’ Japanese product boycott cam…
South Korean social media has been awash with calls for a boycott of Japanese goods ever since Tokyo announced a curb on exports of hi-tech materials to its East Asian neighbour earlier in July, 2019.…
Naver and Kakao are facing the growing possibility of falling victim to trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo at a time when the two IT giants are expanding aggressively in Japan, industry experts sa…
The intensifying diplomatic ruckus is exposing deep cracks in South Korea’s economic success story and forcing the nation to confront its dependence on China, its largest trading partner.…