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South Korea to Train 500,000 ‘Drone Warriors’ as Military Expands Unmanned Capabilities

South Korea to Train 500,000 ‘Drone Warriors’ as Military Expands Unmanned Capabilities

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Thursday it will dramatically expand drone training for conscripts, aiming to produce what it calls “500,000 drone warriors” as militaries worldwide adapt to the growing role of unmanned systems on the battlefield. Defense Minister Ahn Kyu-baek announced the initiative at a ceremony designating the [...]

Puro.earth Secures €11 M Series B Financing Led by Nasdaq with Participation from Fortum Innovation & Venturing to strengthen its supplier infrastructure

Puro.earth Secures €11 M Series B Financing Led by Nasdaq with Participation from Fortum Innovation & Venturing to strengthen its supplier infrastructure

Strategic financing supports Puro.earth initiatives to accelerate carbon removal at scale HELSINKI, Sept. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Puro.earth, a leading carbon-crediting platform for engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR), today announced it has raised €11 million in a Series B funding round led by Nasdaq with participation from Fortum Innovation & Venturing. Puro.earth will deploy this funding to [...]

Boomi Achieves 78% Faster Testing Cycles Using LambdaTest’s HyperExecute Platform

Boomi Achieves 78% Faster Testing Cycles Using LambdaTest’s HyperExecute Platform

With test coverage increased three-times and seven hours saved per cycle, Boomi modernizes its QA strategy using LambdaTest. San Francisco, CA, Sept. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) –  LambdaTest, a GenAI-powered quality engineering platform, has helped Boomi, the leader in AI-driven automation, to transform its software testing processes using HyperExecute, LambdaTest’s next-gen cloud test execution and orchestration [...]

PridCor Therapeutics Reports Positive Long COVID Case Series with Combination Antiviral Regimen

PridCor Therapeutics Reports Positive Long COVID Case Series with Combination Antiviral Regimen

New Preprint: PridCor Therapeutics LLC has released a pre-print detailing a case series of 15 patients with Long COVID (LC) who were given a continuous regimen of 120-days of valacyclovir and celecoxib with a pulsed 15-day treatment of Paxlovid (combination antiviral treatment, or CAR), and these patients were compared to 12 patients with Long COVID who [...]

Statue Once Deemed Too Grim May Return to Sejong Amid ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Craze

Statue Once Deemed Too Grim May Return to Sejong Amid ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Craze

SEJONG, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue in Sejong that was dismantled more than a decade ago after residents complained it resembled the Grim Reaper may be resurrected, thanks in part to the global success of Netflix’s animated film “K-Pop Demon Hunters.” The Government Complex Management Office confirmed Wednesday that officials are reviewing whether to reinstall [...]

TP tops Frost Radar™ benchmark for innovation and growth in Asia Pacific

TP tops Frost Radar™ benchmark for innovation and growth in Asia Pacific

Recognition underscores TP’s leadership in orchestrating AI with human empathy across Asia-Pacific to create competitive advantages for clients SINGAPORE, Sept. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Global provider of digital business services leader TP (formerly Teleperformance) announced today it was ranked a top company on the 2025 Frost Radar™ for Customer Experience Management in Asia-Pacific. This marks the seventh [...]

ProductLife Group Expands to Deliver Localized Expertise & Enhanced Client Support in Japan

ProductLife Group Expands to Deliver Localized Expertise & Enhanced Client Support in Japan

PARIS, Sept. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – ProductLife Group (PLG) is proud to announce the opening of its newest office in Japan, reinforcing its commitment to meeting evolving client needs and market demands. This expansion enhances capacity, strengthens our regional and global network, and enables seamless collaboration to support additional markets and services. As life sciences companies increasingly [...]

Bitget and Bitget Wallet Support Trading of Over 100 Tokenized Assets via Ondo Finance

Bitget and Bitget Wallet Support Trading of Over 100 Tokenized Assets via Ondo Finance

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Sept. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, as well as Bitget Wallet, the self-custodial crypto wallet, have launched live trading of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) within their respective apps through the official integration with Ondo Finance. This makes the respective companies among the first to provide access to tokenized [...]

South Korea’s Marriages Halve in 30 Years, but Cross-Cultural Unions Rise

South Korea’s Marriages Halve in 30 Years, but Cross-Cultural Unions Rise

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has seen its marriage and birth patterns shift dramatically over the past three decades, with the number of marriages nearly cut in half, births falling by two-thirds, and cross-cultural unions rising sharply, government data showed Wednesday. According to Statistics Korea, marriages peaked at 434,900 in 1996 but dropped [...]

Gov’t Moves to Scrap ‘Absurd Regulations,’ From Telecom Cancellations to Gender Rules

Gov’t Moves to Scrap ‘Absurd Regulations,’ From Telecom Cancellations to Gender Rules

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government announced a sweeping plan to eliminate dozens of everyday regulations deemed outdated or unreasonable, including cumbersome telecom service cancellations and male-only membership in a national civic group. The reforms were unveiled Tuesday at a policy coordination meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, following the government’s [...]