SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean singer Insooni has been selected as the 2025 Woman of Influence Award honoree for her humanitarian activities supporting young people of mixed race and multicultural backgrounds, Pearl S. Buck International said Friday. The 68-year-old has become the first Korean to receive the honor from the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung on Friday hosted a dinner with members of the diplomatic corps, seeking their support ahead of his meetings with foreign leaders during South Korea’s hosting of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and other upcoming diplomatic engagements. The dinner, held at the former presidential [...]
VCI Global Advances Regional Expansion with Signed Deals and National-Level AI Initiatives Following ASEAN AI Summit KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 15, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) (“VCI Global” or the “Company”), a cross-sector platform builder integrating deep technology with financial architecture to enable sovereign-ready digital ecosystems, today announced it has secured [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A heat wave advisory was issued again for Seoul and most of the central region Friday, with high temperatures expected to continue for the time being. The heat wave alert took effect at 11 a.m. in Seoul, the central city of Daejeon and surrounding areas, according to the Korea [...]
NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its fifth flagship fund, CI V, and EDF power solutions North America, today announced that CIP has acquired full ownership of the 1 gigawatt hour (GWh) Beehive Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). Beehive is a 250 MW / 4-hour [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — An associate of former first lady Kim Keon Hee appeared for a court hearing Friday for his arrest on charges of embezzlement as part of a special counsel probe targeting the former first lady. Kim Ye-seong, known as the “butler” of the former first lady’s family, arrived at the [...]
Activists demand that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pay tribute at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during a rally at the shrine on Aug. 15, 2025, on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. (Image courtesy of Yonhap) SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea expressed deep regret Friday after Japanese Prime Minister [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul-led action plan for the capacity building of developing economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was approved at a meeting of senior APEC officials held to prepare the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday. The five-step Capacity Building Need Initiative (CBNI) for [...]
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD), a global leader in autonomous driving technology, announced today that Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB), Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, has committed to a strategic equity investment in WeRide. The investment is part of a strategic partnership between both companies to accelerate the deployment and commercialisation of [...]
ZURICH, Aug. 15, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — EAACI has launched its Antibiotic Allergy Awareness Campaign during its 2025 Congress in Glasgow. The initiative begins a global effort to address mislabelling and its link to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A Global Call to Action Antibiotic allergy mislabelling affects millions worldwide. Inaccurate labels lead to avoidance of first-line [...]