SEOUL, Oct.1 (Korea Bizwire) – The internet is bursting with criticism over a Chinese fan who broke into actor Cho In-sung’s home. Ahn Woo-bin, a user of the portal site Naver, pointed out that the certain fan’s actions were way out of line, and unacceptable no matter how much she liked Cho In-sung. ‘Peek-a-boo Monkey’, another [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean-Vietnamese couples living in Korea will be able to visit Vietnam for a long period of time without a visa. On September 30, the Korean ambassador in Vietnam announced that the Vietnamese government had decided to allow the spouses and children of Vietnamese nationals living abroad to enter the country [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, multi-ethnic families are called ‘multi-cultural families’, which is a term that was introduced to replace discriminating and degrading terms that were used before. However, research shows that the children of multi-ethnic families do not like the term ‘multi-cultural family’. Recently, Konkuk University hosted a forum entitled ‘The Teacher’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea expressed hope Wednesday that the two Koreas would stage reunions as scheduled next month for families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War. Ju Chul-ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs, made the comment a day after North Korea warned that it could cancel the reunions in anger [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) - The sales of items that help drivers make it through long hours spent in the car during Chuseok holiday traffic jams soared this year. According to 11st, an online shopping site, sales of car accessories from September 1 to 24 were 37 percent higher than the same period last [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Do you remember the time when creamers, especially one named ‘Frima’, were a necessity along with sugar and coffee? Although they seem to have disappeared from Korea ever since the ‘americano‘ became the new trend, creamers are popular in Russia and Central Asia, being used not only as a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that the Korea Customs Service’s text message service, which sends out texts to customers who purchase products directly overseas to inform them that their parcel has arrived, was stopped recently without notice. Due to the increase in the number of direct overseas purchases, the Korea Customs [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state-run food agency said Wednesday it has launched a mobile application that provides details of local halal restaurants, in line with its efforts to attract more Muslim tourists. The app, “HALAL Korea,” provides various information related to halal foodstuffs in South Korea, including locations of restaurants and [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It seems like small sized fruits that can be eaten whole will be taking over the market instead of large ones. As the number of one person households has increased, the Rural Development Administration announced that it would develop good quality smaller fruits, and start to supply the new [...]
GOESAN, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘US First Lady’s White House Kitchen Garden’ exhibited at the Goesan International Organic Expo was the perfect example of beauty in simplicity. The garden reminds us of a weekend garden, small and simple. The fact that the garden is the ‘Michelle Obama garden’ would not even be noticeable [...]