SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has set a new record for first-week album sales for an album by a K-pop female soloist released this year, her agency said Friday. Jennie’s first studio album, “Ruby,” sold more than 660,000 copies in its first week after being released on March [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With about 300 games spread over six partial Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) seasons under his belt, Doosan Bears shortstop Park Jun-young is trying to lock down an everyday job at age 27. Park was the Bears’ Opening Day shortstop last year but never established himself the rest of the [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korea’s listed companies received no coverage from securities analysts last year, with research reports heavily concentrated on large-cap stocks and companies listed on the country’s main KOSPI board. According to data released on March 13 by the Korea IR Association’s Corporate Research Center, while the [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In Mongolia, where liver cancer rates are the highest in the world, a 15-year partnership with a South Korean hospital has enabled 300 patients to receive life-saving liver transplants without leaving their country. Asan Medical Center in Seoul announced on March 13 that its program to establish living-donor liver transplantation [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean polar researchers have discovered a promising new material for lithium-sulfur battery development in an unexpected place: Antarctic waters. The Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) announced on March 13 that a team of researchers had identified a key component for next-generation lithium-sulfur batteries from a red algae species found near [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80% of Generation Z college students in South Korea oppose recent tuition hikes, according to a new survey released on March 13. The study, conducted by Vinulabs Insight through the college community platform Everytime, surveyed 204 university students between February 28 and March 4. It found that 84.8% [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea entering a super-aged society, the looming milestone of one million people living with dementia is casting a long shadow over the nation’s social fabric, presenting unprecedented challenges in caregiving and healthcare infrastructure. According to data released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on March 12, the [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. beef industry has called on the Trump administration to push South Korea to ease its restrictions on American beef imports, drawing close attention from the South Korean livestock and distribution sectors. On March 12, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) formally requested that the U.S. Trade Representative [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Enerbility Co. said Thursday it has secured a 2.2 trillion-won (US$1.52 billion) contract to build two combined cycle power plants in Saudi Arabia. The company said it has signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the construction of Luma 1 and Nairiyah 1 power plants, each [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Four games into the preseason in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yuop isn’t happy with what he has seen from his young pitchers, the team’s 3-1-0 (wins-losses-ties) record notwithstanding. “They’re improving bit by bit, but they have to be better,” Lee told reporters at Jamsil [...]