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Zymeworks Announces Positive HERIZON-GEA-01 Phase 3 Results Supporting Ziihera® (zanidatamab-hrii) as HER2-Targeted Agent-of-Choice and New Standard of Care in First-Line HER2-Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Gastroesophageal

Ziihera® plus chemotherapy showed a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in PFS versus trastuzumab and chemotherapy, and a clinically meaningful effect with a strong trend toward statistical significance for OS at the first OS interim analysis Ziihera plus Tevimbra® (tislelizumab) and chemotherapy demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvements in OS and PFS versus trastuzumab and [...]

Eastern Starry Sky: Jincheng Museum’s “Twenty-Eight Mansions International Art Exhibition” Held in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 17, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – The Eastern Starry Sky: Jincheng Museum’s Twenty-Eight Mansions International Art Exhibition successfully concluded at the Insadong Art Center in Seoul, South Korea, running from November 12 to 18, 2025. This exhibition marked the first overseas showcase of the Twenty-Eight Mansions Painted Sculptures from the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi [...]

Foundations to Future: Abu Dhabi’s cultural vision blossoms

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 17, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – This month, the United Arab Emirates hosted the 27th General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in Dubai. As a milestone moment for our nation and the wider region, the event presented the perfect opportunity to make a distinctively UAE contribution to [...]

Employment Gap Widens as College-Educated Youth Drive Surge in Long-Term Unemployment

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long-term unemployment has climbed to its highest level in four years, driven largely by a surge in jobless young adults with university degrees, according to new government data released Sunday. The number of people who searched for work for more than six months but failed to secure a [...]

Fathers Cite Work Fatigue, Stress as Biggest Barriers to Hands-On Parenting

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean fathers envision themselves as warm, engaged, “friend-like” parents before having children. But once parenting begins, most find themselves becoming something very different: busy, tired, and time-starved. A new survey released Sunday by the Korea Population, Health and Welfare Association, KoPHWA) shows a wide gap between the fathers [...]

Retailers Turn to Character IP as Competition for Differentiation Intensifies

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are increasingly turning to character-based intellectual property to differentiate products and drive sales, with convenience stores and department stores intensifying competition through collaborations with popular global and domestic characters. According to industry data released Friday, convenience stores saw sharp sales gains during this year’s Pepero Day shopping [...]

As Big Pharma Shops for Innovation, Korean Platforms Lead the Deals

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biotechnology firms are securing multibillion-dollar licensing deals at a rapid pace, underscoring the rising global competitiveness of the country’s drug-development platforms. According to industry data released Sunday, ABL Bio recently signed a technology-transfer agreement with Eli Lilly for its “GrabBody” bispecific antibody platform, a deal worth up to [...]

South Korea Moves to Tighten Executive Pay Disclosure and Boost Shareholder Rights

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to impose stricter disclosure requirements on listed companies’ executive compensation and expand access to shareholder voting information, in a move aimed at improving market transparency and strengthening investor rights, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced Sunday. Under the reform package — titled Measures to Improve Corporate Disclosure [...]

Rising Chip Prices Squeeze Samsung, Pushing Stronger Shift to Exynos Processors

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics’ spending on mobile application processors (APs) has surged to an unprecedented level this year, approaching 11 trillion won (US$8.1 billion) amid sharp increases in global memory prices—intensifying pressure on the company’s smartphone division and accelerating its shift toward greater use of in-house chips. According to Samsung’s third-quarter regulatory [...]

Natural Gas ETNs Surge, but Retail Investors Pile Into Losing Inverse Trades

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Natural gas prices have surged to their highest level in nearly three years, lifting related exchange-traded notes (ETNs) while exposing South Korean retail investors to mounting losses after many bet on the market moving in the opposite direction. Between Nov. 1 and 14, nine of the ten best-performing ETNs in [...]