SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A clear majority of South Koreans continue to view unification with North Korea as a national goal, even as doubts persist about the prospects for renewed diplomacy with Pyongyang, according to a government-commissioned survey released Sunday. Nearly 69 percent of respondents said unification remains either “very necessary” or “quite necessary,” [...]
GIMCHEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kimcheon’s annual celebration of its most famous street food has quickly turned into a crowd-control challenge. The 2025 Kimcheon Gimbap Festival opened Saturday in the southeastern city of roughly 134,500 residents, drawing an estimated 80,000 visitors on its first day alone, according to city officials. The two-day festival, now in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea this weekend begins a solemn experiment in shared remembrance. For the first time, the government and the families of those lost in the Itaewon disaster will stand together in public mourning, three years after a crowd crush in a narrow Halloween alley took 159 lives and scarred [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – United States President Donald Trump has described North Korea as “sort of a nuclear power,” AFP reported Saturday, as he seeks to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his ongoing trip to Asia. Trump made the remarks aboard Air Force One en route to Asia, AFP said, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health insurance costs for advanced imaging are surging, as hospitals sharply increase MRI and CT scans after acquiring new equipment — a trend raising fresh concerns over unnecessary testing and long-term fiscal strain. According to data submitted to the National Assembly and released Thursday, hospitals that installed MRI [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 24, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Treasure Global Inc. (NASDAQ: TGL) (“Treasure Global” or the “Company”), a Southeast Asia–anchored technology company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the grant of inducement equity awards to Boon Souw Fung and Tan Ee Wei (collectively, the “Grantees”), pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule [...]
Eight island destinations, all expenses paid by DAMAC for the winner. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 24, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – DAMAC Properties, the UAE’s largest private luxury real estate developer with an extensive global footprint, has announced a new opportunity for travellers, dreamers, and creators across the globe: the chance to become The Ultimate DAMAC [...]
VANTAA, Finland, Oct. 24, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Canatu has granted a commercial production license for the first CNT100 SEMI reactor to Korean semiconductor company FINE SEMITECH CORPORATION (hereinafter “FST”). The license authorizes FST as the licensee to mass-produce CNT pellicle membranes using the CNT100 SEMI reactor, which will be operated by FST. FST will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will turn the quiet, temple-dotted city of Gyeongju into a theater of global power politics. South Korea, long wedged between the gravitational pulls of Washington and Beijing, suddenly finds itself not as an observer, but as host—and potential broker—of an uneasy regional order. For [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SoftBank Corp. to jointly research and develop next-generation communications technologies, including 6G and artificial intelligence-based radio access network (AI-RAN) innovations. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate in selected areas to drive future innovation [...]