SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of mini cars by South Korea’s five automakers are expected to remain below 100,000 units for a second consecutive year in 2025, industry data showed Sunday, amid a lack of new models and shifting consumer preferences. From January to October, the five carmakers — Hyundai Motor Co., Kia [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Group said Sunday it reduced roughly 5.39 million tons of carbon emissions in 2024, marking a 26 percent drop from the previous year and putting the conglomerate ahead of its climate goals. The results were detailed in the latest LG Net Zero Special Reporting 2024, published on Nov. 14. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul partially suspended operations of its new Hangang bus service on Sunday after a vessel ran aground near Jamsil Pier, prompting the rescue of more than 80 passengers and intensifying political scrutiny over the project’s safety record. The accident occurred at around 8:24 p.m. Saturday, when a river bus [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea recovered enough energy from waste incineration this year to power the annual needs of roughly 110,000 people, according to new government data released Sunday. The National Institute of Environmental Research said it will publish a revised technical guide on Monday detailing updated methods for measuring the efficiency [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Applications for vouchers provided to pregnant women increased 8.1 percent from a year earlier in the first nine months of this year, data showed Sunday, in a possible sign of a continued rebound in the number of newborns in a country facing one of the world’s lowest birth rates. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have apprehended over 3,000 suspects in connection with online sex crimes over the past year, with nearly half of them in their teens, officials said Sunday. The National Police Agency (NPA) has detected 3,411 online sexual abuse cases between November 2024 and October this year, effectively detaining 3,557 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean individual investors’ net purchases of overseas stocks reached a new high for a half-month period in November, driven by their aggressive investment patterns, officials said Sunday. Local investors bought a net US$3.63 billion worth of foreign stocks in the first 14 days of this month, more than [...]
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Nov. 15, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), announced the listing of Planck (PLANCK) in the Innovation, AI and DePIN Zone, adding it to spot trading. Trading for the PLANCK/USDT pair began on 13 November 2025, 14:00 (UTC), with withdrawals available from 14 November 2025, 15:00 (UTC). To celebrate [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A sweeping selection of masterpieces from the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s renowned art collection goes on public display in the United States for the first time on Saturday, as South Korea’s two leading national museums open a landmark exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Co-organized by [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean and U.S. officials struck an upbeat note on the trajectory of the two countries’ evolving relationship, calling it a “model” and “forward-looking” alliance, as they celebrated the Korean National Day and Armed Forces Day in Washington on Thursday. Their display of confidence over the decades-old alliance came [...]