SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Joowon and singer-actress BoA have broken up after being in relationship for nearly one year, their agencies said Monday. “The company confirmed that Joowon and BoA have recently ended their relationship,” Hwai Brothers Korea, Joowon’s agency, said in a release. “But we do not know the details,” it [...]
GIMHAE, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2018 PyeongChang Olympics torch relay began in South Gyeongsang Province over the weekend, with scores of torchbearers holding the flame aloft, including disabled athletes. Paralympic swimmer Kim Se-jin and aspiring swimmer Kim Dong-hoon were among the torch bearers during the first day of the torch relay in South Gyeongsang [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands attended the World Club Dome Korea 2017, generating economic spinoffs of billions of won for the local economy. According to the Incheon Metropolitan City Government, this year’s World Club Dome, which was held between September 22 and 24, attracted 120,000 people, with an economic impact of 128 [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A KAIST professor has said artificial intelligence-based fact checkers could be more effective than humans in tackling fake news in the future. Professor Cha Mi-young, who teaches computing at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), said big-data efforts to quickly discover and prevent fake news from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecution investigators raided Woori Bank’s training center Friday over allegations of unfair hiring of employees, just three days after the bank’s head office was raided. Investigators from the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office searched the training center in Anseong, south of Seoul, as part of an investigation into suspicions [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 380,000 signatures have been collected on an online petition in protest against what the South Korean public believes is a ‘far too short’ prison sentence for notorious child rapist Cho Doo-soon. Reports that Cho – whose horrifying crime was the subject of the feature film “Hope” – is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has once again publically called on Google to disclose its profits and tax records, keeping alive its charges of lack of transparency against the international IT giant. The South Korean web portal is continuing to press Google Korea on the company’s lack of transparency, with new CEO Han [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court ruled Friday that a series of documents jointly drawn up with the United States for the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense battery should remain confidential, as their disclosure would harm national interests. The Seoul Administrative Court delivered the verdict, rejecting [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s finance minister on Friday met with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and discussed the country’s economic and financial policies, the ministry here said. Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon held a meeting in Seoul with the IMF mission led by Tarhan Feyzioglu, which has been on a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly has passed a new amendment barring the government from forming a blacklist of celebrities. The new amendment proposed by lawmaker Yu Eun-hye was passed during a plenary session on Thursday, in a move to protect celebrities and artists from discrimination over political differences. Yu, who is [...]