SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) – With the number of people living with pets on the rise, South Korea’s many regional governments have been jumping on the bandwagon of the pet industry to meet increasing demand for facilities and accommodations for pet use. According to the government’s data, pets are raised in more than 20 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Popular singer G-Dragon on Thursday protested a local industry association’s recent judgment that his latest release made in USB format cannot be recognized as a music album. In a post on his Instagram, which started with “What’s The Problem?,” the artist wrote, “Is it that simple that an artist’s [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of people preparing for jobs surpassed the 700,000 mark in May for the first time ever, data showed Thursday, amid the rising unemployment among young people. The figure surged to 735,000 last month, up 13 percent from 656,000 a year earlier, the data by Statistics Korea said. [...]
SEOUL, Jun 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver’s data center ‘Gak’, which is located in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, has made it to a list of the top ten of the world’s best-looking data centers, joining the likes of Google and aql. British IT journal Data Center Dynamics has recently announced ten of the most beautiful data centers [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans tend to move from one city to another instead of staying in the same city when traveling abroad. According to an analysis released by Skyscanner of flight tickets purchased by South Koreans on the travel website, the number of travelers who searched for multi-city flights grew over 700 [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean government delegation will visit Brazil and Peru next week to promote its electronic government systems, the ministries of interior and foreign affairs said Wednesday. The team led by a senior official of the Ministry of the Interior plan to visit the South American countries through Tuesday. In Peru, the delegation plans [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s taekwondo world championships to be held in South Korea will be the largest in the competition’s history, organizers said Wednesday. The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) said 917 athletes from 183 nations have signed up for the June 24-30 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, some 240 kilometers south of Seoul. Both the numbers of participating nations and athletes are [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho on Wednesday threw a jab at the organizers of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, saying that it should have fixed its rules regarding streaming-only films before inviting his Netflix movie “Okja.” “It would have been preferable if the Cannes festival would have put the rules in order before inviting us. Inviting us and creating [...]
OKCHEON, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Okcheon County in North Chungcheong Province is facing criticism from animal experts over its decision to feed wild boars as part of its fight against the wild animals, shortly after the local government announced a mild level of success in recent weeks. Earlier this week, reports emerged that Okcheon County, [...]
INCHEON, June 14 (Yonhap) – The South Korean men’s national team made a solemn return on Wednesday from an away loss to Qatar in a World Cup qualifying match. With a dreadful defensive effort, South Korea fell to Qatar 3-2 in Doha on Tuesday, their first loss to the Middle East nation since December 1984. [...]