BUSAN, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An electric bike caught fire while being charged at a convention center in the southeastern port city of Busan, but sprinklers helped put out the flames, officials said Tuesday. The blaze occurred at 10:15 p.m. Monday at an underground parking lot at Bexco, an exhibition and convention center in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a move to address growing safety concerns and maintain customer loyalty, Mercedes-Benz Korea announced on September 9 that it plans to distribute charging vouchers worth 300,000 won to owners of its electric vehicles. Mathias Vaitl, president of Mercedes-Benz Korea, communicated this decision in an email titled “A Message of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor is preparing to conduct a labor inspection of Coupang, the country’s leading e-commerce company, following a series of worker deaths in recent months. Kim Min-seok, the Vice Minister of Employment and Labor, addressed the issue during a plenary session of the National Assembly’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts took an unexpected turn on September 8 when world-renowned soprano Angela Gheorghiu disrupted the show, igniting a heated debate about artistic etiquette and cultural expectations in the classical music world. The incident occurred during the third act [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – At IFA 2024, Europe’s largest consumer electronics trade show, industry giants Samsung and LG have taken a markedly different approach to their exhibits, emphasizing artificial intelligence (AI) integration over showcasing individual products. This strategy, while highlighting the companies’ vision for interconnected smart homes, has left some attendees yearning for the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Company strengthened its bid for the 2024 World Rally Championship (WRC) title with a dominant performance at the Acropolis Rally Greece, the tenth event of the season. The South Korean automaker announced on September 9 that its team achieved a remarkable 1-2-3 finish, marking its fourth victory of [...]
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s (OTC Pink: ETCC) (“ETC” or the “Company”) Aerospace Solutions Segment announced it has been awarded $9.7 million in contracts from three international customers in the Aeromedical Training Solutions (“ATS”) business unit for mid-life upgrades of various Aerospace products as well as a contract for an Airfield Driver [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest album from girl group Le Sserafim has landed on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart at No. 7. The group’s fourth EP, “Crazy,” collected 47,000 album-equivalent units in the United States during the charting period for the Billboard 200, Billboard said in an online article Sunday (U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study has revealed that webtoon artists contracted through production companies are significantly more likely to experience depression compared to their counterparts who work directly with publishing platforms. The research, titled “Work Environment and Depressive Symptoms of Webtoon Writers,” was recently published in the international journal SH@W by the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cancer surgeries decreased significantly in the first five months after a junior doctors’ strike began in February, data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) showed Monday. Between February and June, the number of patients who underwent cancer surgeries at upper-class general hospitals nationwide [...]