SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Maestro Chung Myung-whun said Tuesday he will step down as the music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) amid allegations of embezzlement and a sexual harassment scandal surrounding the orchestra’s previous chief conductor. In a letter to SPO members, Chung said it was “regrettable” to leave his post, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean outfielder Kim Hyun-soo may have gotten a little ahead of himself when he told reporters Tuesday that he hopes to conclude his baseball career in the U.S. It had been less than a week since the Baltimore Orioles announced their signing of the Doosan Bears All-Star for [...]
SEOUL, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) decided to change their current abbreviation because it is similar to an expletive. According to the British Journal ‘Independent’, Hoss Rafaty, head of WTF will shorten their abbreviation to ‘WT (World Taekwondo)’ and use it in related businesses and marketing. WTF is better known to [...]
SEOUL, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is resourcing big data to apprehend corruption dealing with the maintenance costs of apartments. The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Gyeonggi province announced that they adopted the big data method to investigate maintenance costs of apartments and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea opened an office cluster in Seoul on Tuesday to develop the country’s creative content industry and nurture its future talent, the culture ministry said. The “Cel” cluster is located in a former office building of the Korea Tourism Organization in central Seoul and will house more than [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s sole aircraft maker Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) said Tuesday it has completed the development of a marine variant of its Surion transport helicopter, which will help enhance the range of operation and mobility for the Marine Corps. The KAI undertook the project in 2013 to produce [...]
JEONJU, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Finding a pharmacy open during the holidays or looking for reliable child care at night seems to be as difficult as solving a complicated riddle. First of all, there is no clue on where to even get such information from. And even if one gets in touch with such information, [...]
SEJONG, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – The revised version of the Aviation Security Act, also known as the ‘Peanut Fly back Protection Law’, passed the Assembly plenary session on December 28. The law will strengthen penalties on illegal acts or disturbances in airplanes during flight. Governor of the Construction and Transportation Committee, Ha Tae-kyung proposed a [...]
NAMWON, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – At a small village located in Namwon, questionable accidents of tires getting punctured have continued to occur since mid October. At first the incidents were shaken off and thought to be as accidents. But as the number of victims of punctured tires exceeded 10 vehicles in a small village with [...]
INCHEON, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Paradise Hotel Incheon’ which hosted the first foreigners only casino in the 1960s, decided to withdraw their announcement that they had made to close after 50 years of business. According to Paradise hotel officials, the hotel made a final decision to change their plan of closing into a plan [...]