SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is eyeing Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear power plant project, hoping to export its nuclear technology following a 2009 deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the government said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, is set to announce a plan to build two nuclear reactors [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean boy band BTS hit number one on iTunes album charts in 73 countries around the world with its latest record “Love Yourself: Her” on Tuesday, its management agency said. According to Big Hit Entertainment, the new EP album topped iTunes album charts in 73 countries, including the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has warned one of the country’s major mobile networks over its alleged subsidies to boost sales of Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy Note 8, a marketing practice prohibited under current legislation. According to the Korea Communications Commission on Monday, the government branch which controls mobile phone [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of civil and family lawsuits and criminal cases filed last year hit an 18-year high not seen since the Korean financial Crisis in 1998. According to data released on Monday by the administrative department at the Supreme Court of Korea, the number of lawsuits filed in 2016 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national short track speed skating team has unveiled new uniforms consisting of black, white, red, and blue to represent the colors of the country’s flag, topped off with a red helmet with the fierce face of a tiger. Despite controversy and lawsuits between sportswear companies over the supply [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean food authorities have announced that probiotics extracted from traditional South Korean food can help prevent diabetes complications. The Korea Food Research Institute made the announcement on Tuesday along with an update on its research into the commercialization of diabetes complication-preventing probiotics, which are extracted from traditional Korean food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Earlier this month, South Korean poet Choi Young-mi caused a storm after publicly posting a plea on her Facebook to ‘five-star hotels, preferably with a swimming pool’ to let her stay for free for a year, while offering in exchange to become an honorary ambassador to promote the hotel. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop band BTS said Monday it hopes to enter the highly coveted Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States with its latest record “Love Yourself: Her.” “Whenever we’re asked about our goals, we say that we want to enter the Hot 100. But a lot of albums have [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Singer-actress IU prereleased a new song titled “Autumn Morning” that will be part of an upcoming remake album, her agency said Monday. “Autumn Morning” is a remake of South Korean folk icon Yang Hee-eun’s 1991 song of the same name, according to Fave Entertainment. It is part of the [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Government plans released on Monday have revealed it is likely that artificial intelligence-based robots will soon be assisting the making of movies at film studios in Busan. The Busan Metropolitan Government has announced it is investing 6 billion won from both the central government and city’s budget to revamp [...]