SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s Rose has maintained her position in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 with “APT.,” her collaborative single with U.S. pop star Bruno Mars. According to the chart released Monday (U.S. time), the song remained at No. 5 this week, a week after soaring to the position. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Biologics Co., a biotech arm of South Korea’s Samsung Group, said Tuesday it has received a contract manufacturing deal worth 2.07 trillion won (US$1.4 billion) from a Europe-based biopharmaceutical firm. In the largest-ever contract manufacturing deal, Samsung Biologics will manufacture a biomedicine for the European company from Dec. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea launched suspected multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, in a provocation staged just days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch at about 9:30 a.m. from the Ganggye [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BTS’ 2020 global megahit “Dynamite” has achieved 2 billion streams on global music streaming giant Spotify, the group’s agency, BigHit Music, said Tuesday. This achievement makes BTS the first K-pop group to reach such a milestone. Among solo artists in the industry, BTS member Jungkook became [...]
GOYANG, South Korea, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine people were injured after 43 cars were involved in a pileup on an icy highway near a junction in Goyang, just north of Seoul, officials said Tuesday. The accident occurred at 5:50 a.m. on the Seoul Munsan Expressway headed for Munsan, leaving nine drivers hospitalized. Police [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major terrestrial broadcasters—KBS, MBC, and SBS—have filed a lawsuit against tech giant Naver for unauthorized use of their news articles in training its generative artificial intelligence models, HyperCLOVA and HyperCLOVA X. This marks the first legal action by South Korean media outlets against a big tech [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KB Kookmin Bank’s labor union has filed for dispute mediation with the National Labor Relations Commission, demanding a performance bonus equivalent to 300% of base salary and an additional 10 million won in special incentives. If mediation fails, this could lead to the bank’s first general strike since 2019. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to the growing trend of direct overseas purchases of cosmetics through international online platforms, South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced on Monday, that it will strengthen safety regulations to prevent consumer harm. This initiative will be carried out in collaboration with the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Audi Korea has announced its most ambitious product launch schedule since entering the Korean market in 2004, with plans to introduce 16 new models this year alongside an expansion of its sales and service network to better meet customer needs. The announcement came during the company’s New Year media roundtable [...]
STACK strengthens its APAC presence with a cutting-edge development in Johor Bahru SINGAPORE, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, today announced its entry into Malaysia, recognized as the fastest-growing data center market in Asia-Pacific. The [...]