SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) - “Right Now, Wrong Then,” the latest Hong Sang-soo feature film, has drawn more than 70,000 movie-goers, data by an official market tracker showed Friday. The 17th feature film by the South Korean director broke the 70,000-mark on Thursday, according to data by the Korean Film Council, with the current tally [...]
CHUNGJU, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – An event to pay tribute to the animals used in medical experiments was held in front of the animal monument at the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation. The animal monument is a two-meter-high sculpture of a person holding a laboratory animal like a mother holds a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As financial authorities and creditors have held off a plan to support the normalization of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the union from the Korea Development Bank (KDB) is pushing for a restructuring based on fundamentals. KDB’s union urged Daewoo to restructure even if the companies goes under legal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Eastar Jet has announced that it will operate irregular flights from Incheon to Dandong, China. It is the first time that an airline from a country other than China airline offers service to Dandong. The planes of Eastar Jet will fly from Incheon to Dandong twice a week on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Active Seniors’, people in their 50s and 60s who enjoy doing the things they want to do after they retire, have reported that their health and what they do with their lives when they are ‘old’ are the most important things. A majority of them did not consider themselves [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Apple Inc.’s two latest smartphones went on sale in South Korea on Friday, with the industry poised to keep close tabs on the market for possible overheating on the retail front. The country’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Inc. — released [...]
Actress Go Hyun-jung will return to the TV after a three year absence, in the tvN drama ‘Dear Friends’ (working title). (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Actress Go Hyun-jung will return to the TV after a three year absence, in the tvN drama ‘Dear Friends’ (working title). tvN announced that Go [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It seems like a breath of nostalgic wind is blowing on the silver screen this fall, as movies that had long faded away from memory have been re-released. The films have not been re-released as marketing tools for upcoming films from the same directors. Rather, films that have been [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M, which manages the music site mnet.com, has decided to abolish its ‘recommended music’ section. ‘Recommended music’ refers to songs that are selected by music sites for increased promotion, and are displayed right above the ranking charts. If a song is selected as ‘recommended music’, it is easier [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Results of a long-term study show that two out of 10 people that have an REM sleep behavior disorder that prevents them from sleeping deeply are likely to suffer from Parkinson´s disease or dementia. Professor Yoon In-young’s team at the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Sleep Center observed 84 [...]