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Koelnmesse GmbH (Cologne Trade Fair) is an international trade fair and exhibition center located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With around 80 trade fairs and over 2,000 conferences annually, Koelnmesse is one of the country's largest trade fair organisers [ 2 ] and with 284,000 m 2 exhibition floor area the third largest by area.
A Korean sign for Gyeongju, which translates to "congratulatory province" or "capital province". Korean place name etymologies are based upon a large linguistic background of Chinese, Japanese and Old Korean influence and history. [1] The commonplace names have multiple meanings in Korean, Chinese, and when transliterated to English as well. [2]
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry traces its origins to the Seoul (Hanseong) Chamber of Commerce, which was founded in 1884. During Japan's occupation of Korea, the Japanese authorities sought to control the local economy by managing regional chambers of commerce. As a result, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Seoul and Korea's Seoul ...
[b] Some argue that even Hangurugo is not completely neutral, since North Korea calls the writing system Chosŏn'gŭl, not hangul. Urimaru (ウリマル), a direct transcription of uri mal (우리말, "our language") is sometimes used by Korean residents in Japan, as well as by KBS World Radio. This term, however, may not be suitable to ethnic ...
Singapore's only school for Korean nationals, the Singapore Korean School, was established on 17 February 1993; as of 2018, it had 450 students at the pre-school, primary, middle and high school levels. [16] It conducts roughly two-thirds of its class hours in Korean, and one-third in English. [17]
Qoo10 was founded as a subsidiary of Qoo10 Pte. Ltd., in 2010 by Giosis Pte. Ltd., [4] a joint venture between Gmarket founder Ku Young Bae and eBay. [5] Gmarket was founded in South Korea in 2000 as a subsidiary of Interpark. In December 2007, Gmarket was established in Japan [citation needed]. Gmarket was next established in Singapore in ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -Emergency departments at all but one of South Korea's biggest hospitals were on red alert on Thursday as trainee doctors vowed to stay off the job in protest at government plans ...
Hanja were once used to write native Korean words, in a variety of systems collectively known as idu, but by the 20th century Koreans used hanja only for writing Sino-Korean words, while writing native vocabulary and loanwords from other languages in Hangul, a system known as mixed script. By the 21st century, even Sino-Korean words are usually ...