SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest album from K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together (TXT) debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart, marking the band’s sixth top 10-charting album. “The Star Chapter: Sanctuary,” the seventh EP from the band, hit the chart by earning 98,000 equivalent album units in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia has significantly scaled back production of its EV9 electric SUV at its Georgia plant, as the automaker navigates stricter U.S. tax credit requirements and awaits the completion of local battery manufacturing facilities. According to Kia’s sales data, only 21 EV9s were produced at the Georgia plant through the third [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new long-range radar system developed with homegrown technology has been approved for combat suitability, the state arms procurement agency said Monday, with the equipment expected to bolster surveillance of aircraft in the country’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ). The new radar system is capable of conducting around-the-clock surveillance [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Taeyeon, a member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation, released her new solo EP, “Letter To Myself,” on Monday, her agency, SM Entertainment, said. The six-track album features a title song of the same name, which combines lyrical and explosive melodies. Taeyeon said the album conveys a message of warm [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Railway workers launched a “work-to-rule” protest Monday, causing delays in subway services in the capital area, railway officials said. The labor slowdown was launched by the Korean Railway Workers’ Union to demand higher pay and a bigger workforce, with plans to begin an indefinite general strike early next month. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In taking an early exit from the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12 in Taipei this month, South Korea was held back by its lack of depth among young, homegrown starting pitchers. South Korea’s fate was sealed Sunday, its first offday of the tournament, when Japan and Chinese Taipei [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea again sent balloons carrying trash toward South Korea on Monday, the military here said, resuming its balloon campaign after about a three-week hiatus. North Korea floated some 40 balloons in the early hours, with approximately half of them falling in the Seoul metropolitan area and surrounding Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., a major South Korean shipyard, said Monday it has secured a 340.3 billion-won (US$244.7 million) order to build two very large gas carriers (VLGCs) from an Asia shipper. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., one of HD Korea Shipbuilding’s three shipbuilding units, will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will push to hire foreigners as “maeul” bus drivers to cope with a chronic manpower shortage in the transportation sector. Maeul buses, or village buses in English, operate on very short routes within local areas to connect residents to nearby major bus [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has designated Korea Zinc Co.’s high-nickel precursor manufacturing technology as a national core technology amid a tussle for control of the world’s biggest refined zinc producer, according to the company Monday. Korea Zinc has been in a monthslong battle to fend off a takeover bid by its [...]