SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s Ioniq 9 and Kia Corp.’s EV3 have been named the best models in their respective categories at this year’s TopGear.com Electric Awards, Hyundai Motor Group said Friday. With the latest recognition, the South Korean automotive group has received awards for five Hyundai vehicles and two Kia [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Judges nationwide will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s election law violation case, a judges’ association said Friday. The meeting was requested “due to the need to discuss and organize our position on suspicions about the courts’ political neutrality and the issue [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit South Korea in 2027 to attend World Youth Day, marking what would be the fourth papal visit to the country and his first as pontiff. If confirmed, the trip would make him the third pope to set foot in South [...]
BEIJING, May 08, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – A natural gas pipeline that stretches 3,000 kilometers in Russia and 5,111 km in China commenced operations in December last year, benefiting about 450 million people along its route. The China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline is a landmark project of energy cooperation between the two countries, yet ties [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — For 68 dogs confined to wire cages, their lives had followed a bleak and all-too-familiar trajectory: bred for meat, denied space, proper food, or care, and ultimately destined for slaughter. But in a remarkable turn of fate, dozens of those dogs are now on their way to [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean security and technology experts are raising alarms over Google’s renewed request to export high-resolution digital maps of the country, warning that approval could pose grave national security and economic risks in an era of increasingly drone-based warfare and geopolitical uncertainty. During a policy forum held at the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long-term economic potential is facing a steep decline and could enter negative territory by the 2040s if structural challenges go unaddressed, the state-run Korea Development Institute (KDI) warned in a report released Thursday. According to the report, “Projections for Potential Growth and Policy Implications,” South Korea’s potential growth [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of young South Koreans are withdrawing from society and confining themselves indoors, emerging only at night — a pattern that is raising alarm among mental health professionals, law enforcement, and social policy experts. According to a March 2025 report by the Office for Government Policy Coordination, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean consumers reined in spending on everyday items and luxury goods in the first quarter of 2025, while showing a notable willingness to spend on travel-related expenses, according to new data from mobile analytics platform IGAWorks. The firm’s Mobile Index data, based on estimated credit and debit card transactions [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s medical establishment is uniting in support of the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) as it prepares for a pivotal appeals court hearing in its landmark lawsuit against major tobacco companies over smoking-related health costs. The NHIS filed a 53.3 billion won ($37 million) damage claim in 2014 [...]