SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer-actress IU and “Lovely Runner” star Byeon Woo-seok have been confirmed to star in a new MBC drama series, Kakao Entertainment said Monday. Set in an alternate Korea with a constitutional monarchy, IU will portray Seong Hee-ju, an ordinary woman from a wealthy chaebol family, while Byeon will take [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A fifth round of international negotiations for a binding plastic regulation agreement has ended without a deal, with delegates agreeing to resume talks at a later date. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution met in the southeastern city of Busan from last Monday until Sunday to try [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said North Korean soldiers deployed to western Russia have been killed or injured during combat against Ukrainian forces, adding to global criticism they will be used as “cannon fodder” for Moscow, a Japanese report showed. Zelenskyy shared the assessment during an interview with Japan’s [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in the United States has hired a public strategy company previously associated with President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff nominee, a move seen as aiming to enhance communication with Trump’s team. According to the U.S. Department of Justice on Sunday, Mercury Public Affairs reported its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry minister said Monday that the country plans to foster cooling equipment for data centers as one of its new export engines amid the growing demand for infrastructure to support the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun made the remark during his visit to LG [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A search and rescue operation is under way in the sea off the southeastern county of Uljin on Monday after a leisure boat with three people on board went missing the previous day, police said. The Uljin Coast Guard said families of the sailors reported around 8 p.m. Sunday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — STX Corp., a South Korean general trading firm, said Monday that it has signed a US$60 million contract with the Peruvian Army’s weapons manufacturing body to export 30 armored vehicle units to the South American nation. Under the deal with the Peruvian Army Arsenal, STX will ship 30 units [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Disbanded K-pop girl group GFriend will make a temporary comeback next month with the release of a special album, nearly four years after they parted ways, Source Music said Monday. The six-member group will pre-release some tracks from the upcoming album on Jan. 6, with the full album set [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Daegu FC leaned on their Brazilian attacking duo of Cesinha and Edgar to survive a tough playoff match against a second-division foe and secure a spot in the top league for next year. And Daegu’s head coach Park Chang-hyun believes overreliance on the tandem is not a sustainable formula [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean companies operating in Vietnam have experienced technology theft by their employees this year, a state-funded research institute said Monday. The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) conducted a poll of 335 Korean firms that have business operations in Vietnam during the [...]