SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Boy band EXO has become the first K-pop artist to win three awards, including the Grand Prize, for three consecutive Seoul Music Awards. The nine-member act won the Grand Prize, Main Prize and Hallyu Special Award at the 25th High 1 Seoul Music Awards on Thursday evening. No artist had [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Thanks to popular reality cooking show “Three Meals a Day” and family soap opera “Reply 1988,” cable network tvN has achieved twice its profit target for 2015, industry sources said Friday. Advertising for the fourth season of “Three Meals a Day” and “Reply 1988″ were the main drivers, the sources [...]
SEOUL, Jan.15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of individuals who are dying alone is increasing every year. News reports of bodies being found months after the individual died are no longer a surprise. Due to the rapid aging of society and the increase in the number of single-person households, dying alone is no longer a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea could file a criminal complaint against the local unit of Volkswagen with the prosecution unless the German carmaker provides required data and information needed for its planned emissions testing, a government source said Friday. In November, the environment ministry ordered Volkswagen Korea to recall about 125,000 vehicles whose [...]
Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop group TWICE will temporarily suspend her activities in China after waving the Taiwanese national flag in an online broadcast, her agency said Thursday. (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop group TWICE will temporarily suspend her activities in China after waving the Taiwanese national flag [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leaflets criticizing the South were spotted for a second consecutive day in South Korea’s border towns Thursday as the rivals escalated their psychological warfare across the border in the wake of the communist nation’s recent nuclear test. “We detected the North Korean military spreading anti-South leaflets again [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has delivered a letter of apology to the families of its workers who fell ill or died from working at its facilities, claiming that the eight-year-long dispute has came to an end. “On Thursday, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun met with [...]
SEOUL, Jan.14 (Korea Bizwire) – The sales of large-screen TVs soared in the domestic market in 2015. According to Samsung Electronics, sales of 55-inch TVs increased more than 60 percent, and sales of TVs larger than 60 inches increased more than 70 percent compared to 2014. The company’s 65-inch SUHD TV ranked first in sales, [...]
SEOUL, Jan.14 (Korea Bizwire) – The saying ‘malicious comments are better than no comments at all’ no longer seems to be true. The number of stars who had to tolerate cyber attacks or stop at just ‘scaring’ those committing the offenses is now changing. Management companies are taking action and employing their full resources to [...]
SEOUL, Jan.14 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Unity of Motion’, media artist group WOW’s piece which visualizes the harmony between technology, nature and humans, will be exhibited at the Hyundai Motor Studio Seoul until April 30. The piece is an interactive art installation which expresses the harmony of nature, human and technology represented by automobiles. To the [...]