WASHINGTON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump were set to hold bilateral talks Friday over a wide range of issues that will likely include ways to strengthen the countries’ alliance and their joints efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons. The first bilateral summit between [...]
MUJU, South Korea, June 30 (Yonhap) – Two international organizations for the Korean martial art of taekwondo have agreed to hold a joint performance during next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, the sport’s top official said Friday. Choue Chung-won, president of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), said his organization and the North Korea-led International [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air Co., one of South Korea’s biggest budget carriers, on Friday opened a new route to Jeju Island to capitalize on growing low-cost travel demand during the peak summer season. The low-cost carrier has allocated a 189-seat B737-800 jet to serve the Gwangju-Jeju route two times a day, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The average ages of both South Korean men and women at the time of their first marriage have risen over the past decade, an industry report showed Friday. According to the report by local matchmaking firm Duo, the average age of men who tied the knot stood at 36 [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday expressed concerns that some foreign media outlets’ “groundless” reports could hamper inter-Korean relations, apparently pointing to a Japanese report on Seoul’s alleged attempt to implement regime change in North Korea. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun said Monday that the administration of former South Korean Park Geun-hye attempted [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of Ecology (NIE) has secured a patent for a new technology that can be used to monitor the environment inside caves based on the movement of bats. With the new monitoring system invented by the researchers at the NIE, studying cave environments could become much easier, as [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s newly released South Korean movie “Okja” could have attracted over seven million moviegoers to the cinema if the streaming service hadn’t simultaneously released the movie on its platform, new big data-based statistics say. According to the big data analysis released by movie recommendation service Watcha on Thursday, the [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has discovered a new technology which will allow animal testing on rodents to be conducted without dissection. Biomeasurement scientists at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) announced on Wednesday that they had developed a device with which researchers can measure [...]
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump were set to meet for the first time during a dinner hosted on Thursday, one day before they sit for official talks. The South Korean president arrived here Wednesday on a four-day visit. Moon was set to begin [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop band TWICE’s inaugural Japanese album rose to No. 2 on the country’s key music chart, according to the group’s agency Thursday. “#TWICE,” released on Thursday in Japan, has sold 46,871 copies, coming in at second place on Oricon’s daily album sales chart after Japanese idol group Kanjani8, JYP [...]