SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-ranked carmaker, said Tuesday that it has sold more than 10,000 units of its all-new K7 sedan since its launch by appealing to relatively young people with its upgraded features and affordability, company officials said. The sales figure included around 7,500 preorders received before [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean boy band SHINee has embarked on its fourth Japanese tour, which could draw hundreds of thousands of people, its agency said Tuesday. The five-member act touched down in Fukuoka for concerts from Saturday to Sunday, S.M. Entertainment said, adding it will stop in Tokyo, Osaka and six other [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - Do Min-joon, the stoic alien with superpowers in the South Korean drama “My Love from the Star,” has a different identity in China. Spoiler alert: The entire story is a fictional tale that he writes for Cheon Song-yi, the arrogant, yet endearing heroine played by actress Jun Ji-hyun in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Passengers who ride the subway’s Bundang Line might find an orange sticker on the floor in front of their seat. The stickers are part of a campaign to stop inconvenience caused by ‘manspreading’ in subways. Two oval shaped stickers are placed in the shape of a heart. When one’s feet [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Unemployment in Korea is becoming worse year after year. The unemployment rate peaked last year at 9.2 percent. Influenced by the phenomenon, 222,650 young Koreans applied to take the national civil service exams, an all-time high in the number of applicants. The job market is as frozen as the recent [...]
Research data showed that 9 out of 10 Korean adults feel stress every day, and 4 out of 10 people felt ‘very stressed’ or ‘extremely stressed’ on a daily basis. (Image : Shutterstock) SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that individuals with higher income levels, men, and couples who both work [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Many individuals, especially young people, start their day by checking their cell phones to see if there are any missed calls or new messages. Workers read the news online during their commutes, and check their SNS accounts before going to bed. Smartphones have become a 24-hour necessity in life, but [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – At first glance, Park Young-ho seems like any other young South Korean struggling either to set up his own businesses or find a job amid the slump in the local job market. But he has something that sets him apart from the majority of South Koreans. He crossed the [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s consumer prices grew less than 1 percent for the first time in three months, a government report showed Tuesday, rekindling concerns about deflation. The country’s consumer price index rose 0.8 percent last month from a year earlier, a 0.5 percentage point fall from December’s 1.3 percent gain, according [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - The “Concept Korea” fashion show, a biannual event organized by South Korea’s government to promote Korean culture, was held in New York on Monday, featuring menswear collections by two Korean designers. The show, which was held at Pier 59 Studios, marked the 13th such event since South Korea’s Culture Ministry [...]