SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The automotive industry in South Korea is expected to see strong competition in the midsize sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment in the second half of the year amid new releases in the popular family leisure car market segment. Kia Corp. this week launched its revamped 2025 Sorento SUV with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Fu Bao, the giant panda that was recently returned to China after living the first four years of her life in South Korea, has become the subject of controversy amid speculation that she is undergoing “hospitality training” at her new home. A video posted on August 30 by a fan-run [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, said Wednesday it will join hands with Perplexity, a U.S. artificial intelligence startup, in a bid to transform the global search engine market. In a joint press conference in Seoul, SK Telecom and Perplexity outlined their vision to co-lead the AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean telecommunications giant KT announced on September 3 its plans to participate in IFA 2024, Europe’s largest consumer electronics and information technology exhibition. The event, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, will take place in Berlin, Germany, from September 6 to 10. KT will join the exhibition alongside 10 [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Climate Industry Expo kicked off in the southern port city of Busan for a three-day run on Wednesday, inviting energy experts from home and abroad to discuss sustainable development through carbon-free energy sources. The event, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the International [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Group announced on September 3 that it will gather 400 influential figures from the international art world for an event coinciding with the Frieze Seoul art fair. The event, titled “CJ Night in Celebration of Frieze Seoul,” is scheduled for the evening of September 4 at the Leeum Museum [...]
PARIS, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Shooter Park Jin-ho has become South Korea’s first double gold medalist of the Paris Paralympics. Park won the men’s 50-meter rifle 3 positions (SH1 classification) title with the Paralympic record score of 454.6 points at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre in Chateauroux, south of Paris, on Tuesday. Dong Chao of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of requests from emergency rescue workers to find hospitals for patients has more than doubled this year compared to last year, amid prolonged emergency room disruptions nationwide, the fire agency said Wednesday. 119 emergency control centers nationwide selected hospitals to accommodate emergency patients on 1,197 occasions from [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A powerful union of bus drivers in Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, called off a strike planned for Wednesday after reaching a last-minute wage hike agreement with their employers before dawn. The union, which has about 90 percent of city and intercity bus drivers in the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Ozone-alert days in Seoul have totaled 31 so far this year, a sharp rise from just three for all of 2015, the city government said Wednesday, advising citizens to take precautions against adverse respiratory and other health effects. The number of alerts issued in the city also jumped to [...]