SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) - Five years since debuting, Dal Shabet still hasn’t seen the limelight such as that of Girls’ Generations. But five years is still a long time, its members said Tuesday as they released their ninth mini album “Naturalness.” “So many people have asked us why we still haven’t made it big,” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) - College students who manage studying and a part-time job at the same time will become eligible for unemployment benefits from now on when they lose their job, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor said it revised the guidelines on unemployment allowances to lower the barriers for [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) -South Korea downplayed the impact of China’s stock market crash on its domestic financial market on Tuesday, saying the market will regain stability again. Chinese stock tumbled nearly 7 percent Monday on the year’s first trading session due to concerns over its manufacturing sector, rattling South Korean and other financial [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Carmakers in South Korea are rushing to unveil their new models in an apparent bid to preempt the domestic market this year by appealing to customers with upgraded and enhanced functions and designs, industry sources said Tuesday. Hyundai Motor Co., the country’s largest automaker, plans to launch the Ioniq [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study shows that people who were exposed to secondhand smoke were almost twice as likely to be smokers compared to those were weren’t. Professor Kang Dae-hee and his research team at Seoul National University arrived at the results after studying the smoking patterns of 24,490 adult males between [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean free agent pitcher Oh Seung-hwan will soon travel to the United States for talks with interested big league clubs, a source close to the player said Monday. “Multiple Major League Baseball clubs have taken interest in his service,” the source said. “And Oh will travel to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – Nutrias, which are also called ‘monster rats’, have been identified as the destroyers of ecosystems all over the world, including Korea. Desperate measures are being taken to catch the animals, and currently, cash prizes of 20,000 won per nutria are being offered. In 1987, a very unusual animal that looked [...]
SEJONG, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has announced the creation of a ‘City Beekeeping Program’, an opportunity for city residents who wish to experience beekeeping to learn and try the craft. A total of 25 local governments will select a bee farm and educate 500 city residents about [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Arirang TV, South Korea’s English-language broadcaster, announced Monday it has become available across the U.S. city of Philadelphia via digital terrestrial network. Arirang TV said the service began at midnight Monday, Eastern Standard Time, or 2 p.m. Monday in South Korea, making it the first South Korean channel to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean girl group Apink will kick off its first-ever concert tour to North America this week, the group’s agency said Monday. The tour titled “Pink Memory: Apink North American Tour 2016″ is scheduled to begin in Vancouver, Canada, on Tuesday (local time), and go to Dallas Wednesday [...]