SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military will deploy an anti-drone response system on a trial basis in the first half of next year under a program to swiftly introduce advanced technologies, the state arms procurement agency said Friday. The trial project promotion committee of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has chosen [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major telecom operator in South Korea, said Friday it has nominated a new chief executive after months of leadership vacuum. The telecom giant’s board of directors nominated Kim Young-shub, former CEO of IT service provider LG CNS Co., as its new leader, KT said in a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The happiness index, representing the level of life satisfaction, remains low among South Korean adults. According to a report from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, a research team conducted a study of 226,545 adults over 19 years of age who participated in the community health survey in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 5 South Korean seniors over 65 years of age lives alone, with each of them earning less than seniors in households where two or more seniors live together, data showed Thursday. According to data from Statistics Korea, there were 1.97 million single-person households among the senior population [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — NewJeans has become the first K-pop girl group to grace the stage for Lollapalooza Chicago, one of the major music festivals in the United States, the group’s agency said Friday. Taking the spotlight on the festival’s opening day at the Grand Park in Chicago, Illinois, the K-pop quintet delivered [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The annual Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival, one of the biggest summer music festivals in South Korea, kicked off Friday for a three-day run amid the scorching heat. Hosted by the Incheon metropolitan government, the festival has been held every year in Songdo, Incheon, about 30 kilometers west of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Koreans increasingly prefer comfortable clothes during the monsoon season and this year’s unprecedented heat wave, the young generation is leading the trend of wearing shorts to work. Musinsa Co., a South Korean fashion platform, analyzed its search data for June and July, revealing that users searched for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Parasols, once a symbol associated mainly with middle-aged women, are spreading across the country with the unprecedented heat wave. Parasol sales at boutiques in Hyundai Department Store between July 25 and 31 surged by 107 percent compared to last year. Lotte Department Store also experienced a 45 percent increase [...]
PAJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A senior with dementia, reported missing, was found by a rescue dog. The Gyeonggi Northern Fire and Disaster Headquarters received a report on Wednesday morning that a 95-year-old man, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, had gone missing in Paju, north of Seoul. A 119 emergency rescue squad and the police [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Eighteen people have died of apparent heat-related illnesses in South Korea since late May, the disease control agency said Friday, as the sweltering heat continues to engulf the country. The number of people hospitalized for such illnesses, including those who have died, came to 1,385 between May 20 and [...]