SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver’s standalone AI-driven shopping app, Naver Plus Store, has emerged as the fastest-growing e-commerce platform in South Korea this year, according to a global app market analysis released Monday by Sensor Tower. From January through October, Naver Plus Store ranked No. 1 in both total downloads and download growth among [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of ten South Korean college seniors and recent graduates who are searching for jobs say they are doing so only passively, with little expectation of being hired, according to a nationwide survey released Monday by the Korea Employers Federation. The survey, conducted between October and November among 2,492 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp.’s PV5 Cargo model has received the highest safety rating of five stars from the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP), according to the automaker Tuesday. The PV5 earned praise across all major assessment categories for commercial vans in 2025, including driving safety, crash avoidance and post-crash [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., the defense and train subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, will participate in a major rail industry exhibition in Morocco to showcase a wide range of integrated railway solutions, the company said Tuesday. The company will participate in the two-day Rail Industry Summit Morocco to be held [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Beginning early next year, foreign nationals purchasing property in designated permit zones will be required to submit detailed documentation explaining how they intend to finance their purchases, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Tuesday. The regulation, part of a revised enforcement decree taking effect on February 10, follows [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) —Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, said Tuesday it has launched a global promotional campaign for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026. Under the theme of “Inspiration Connects Us All,” the new campaign highlights the company’s commitment to promoting unity not only between Kia and its customers, but among people [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Rapper Jay-Z’s investment fund has joined hands with a South Korean asset manager to raise a private equity fund (PEF) that invests in Korean entertainment, beauty and lifestyle, officials said Tuesday. MarcyPen Capital Partners LLC, which is backed by the U.S. rapper, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person households have become the most common living arrangement in South Korea, accounting for roughly 36 percent of all households last year, according to government data released Tuesday. The annual survey by the Ministry of Data and Statistics found that 8.05 million households consisted of a single person in 2024, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of massive data leaks over the past decade, culminating in a recent breach involving 33.7 million Coupang accounts, has created a landscape in which personal information circulates widely and can now be used to reconstruct an individual’s identity and daily habits with alarming precision. While each incident may [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul plans to launch a pilot car-free running program next spring, allowing residents to jog through parts of the city center on weekend mornings, Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced during a visit to Kuala Lumpur this week. The initiative takes inspiration from Kuala Lumpur’s “Car-Free Morning,” a municipal fitness program that [...]