SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Taxi’s plans to charge users fees for quicker cab bookings have drawn mixed reviews. The new service, which will see the taxi hailing app dispatch drivers to users who pay an additional fee first, was announced by Kakao Corp. during a press conference on Tuesday. The announcement came amid growing [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nordic para skier Shin Eui-hyun, who brought South Korea its first medal of the Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, has called on the major TV networks to give the sporting event wider coverage. Speaking to the press on Sunday, Shin, who won the bronze medal in Men’s 15km Classic Cross-Country Skiing, [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean TV networks are facing criticism over scarce media coverage of the PyeongChang Paralympics. The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off last Friday under the theme of passion and coexistence, but the prospect of following up the success of the Winter Olympics remains doubtful, as many events featuring [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Baskin Robbins Korea has issued an apology after making light of the sexual harassment scandal involving now deceased actor Jo Min-ki in an online post. In the promotional Instagram post, which has now been deleted, the ice cream company used a number of controversial hashtags including ‘#very_much_excited,” and ‘#really_dangerous’, which [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea’s leading shipbuilder, said Monday that it has raised 1.23 trillion won(US$1.15 billion) in a rights issue. The new shares are set to be listed on the country’s main bourse on March 27. Hyundai Heavy said it will use about 820 billion won in improving its financial status and spend the remainder in research and development for eco-friendly and smart vessels. [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The music video for K-pop act BTS’ “Fire” has been watched over 300 million times on YouTube, becoming the band’s second video to reach the milestone. The view count for the video, which was uploaded on May 1, 2016, stood at 300,169,178 as of 9:20 a.m. Monday, becoming the [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The #MeToo movement calling out sexual harassment is spreading like wildfire through the religious world in South Korea, prompting leaders to take countermeasures. According to reputable sources on Sunday, the scandal surrounding several attempted rapes by a Catholic priest who was only identified as Han has inspired followers of other [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Glaucoma Society has launched a campaign this week urging people to get regular eye checkups in celebration of World Glaucoma Week 2018. The group dedicated to glaucoma says individuals over 40 years of age or those with chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, excessive nearsightedness and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are using Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app and service, according to new research. The study conducted by artificial intelligence-based big data analysis firm Daumsoft revealed the number of posts uploaded on Instagram jumped nearly 240 percent between 2015 and last year. The number [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employees at local shipbuilders plunged 221. percent in February from a year earlier due to an industry-wide crisis, data showed Sunday. According to data compiled by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, in February the number of employees at local shipbuilders was 37,800 lower than the same month a year earlier, marking the 11th [...]