SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Tottenham Hotspur’s attacker Son Heung-min has been named the top South Korean athlete of 2017 in a national survey. Gallup Korea said Tuesday that Son won the support of 38.1 percent of respondents to top national sports figures in its poll of 1,300 South Koreans over the age of [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign residents in South Korea has more than doubled over the past decade, topping the 2 million mark in 2016, but multicultural marriages have dropped sharply, government data showed Tuesday. The number of non-Korean citizens totaled some 2.05 million as of end-December 2016, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The music video for popular boy band EXO’s hit song “Ko Ko Bop” surpassed 100 million views on YouTube on Tuesday morning. The video reached the milestone about five months after it was uploaded online, according to the group’s management company, S.M. Entertainment. “Ko Ko Bop” is the title [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has announced plans for a second Pangyo Techno Valley by 2022, which will provide office space to nearly 1,400 businesses at affordable prices to boost promising startup companies. Under the startup complex project plan revealed on Monday, a new industrial complex will be built in addition [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Photos of a luxury meal served at a high school in Ulsan consisting of mini lobster that are worth at least 10,000 won alone have gone viral. Students at Seine High School in Ulsan enjoyed a surprise lunch consisting of shrimp fried rice, a mango salad, udon noodles, lobster and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing interest in cryptocurrency, security experts have warned that North Korean hackers could target bitcoin exchanges next year. During a press conference held on Friday, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) revealed a report predicting seven cyberattacks would likely come next year, with cryptocurrency exchanges as the likely [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a ceremony on Monday to mark their implementation of a project to support technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in five Africancountries, the Ministry of Education said. The five-year project, known as Better Education for Africa’s Rise II (BEAR II), which started in 2017, supports the five countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda – in improving [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic crime film “The Swindlers” topped the box office for the third straight weekend, data showed on Monday. The film starring Hyunbin and Yoo Ji-tae led all films, selling 417,534 tickets from Friday to Sunday, according to estimates from the Korean Film Council. It has been on top of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 3 in 10 South Koreans currently use desktop online banking, while the majority have turned to mobile banking services accessed via smartphones and tablet PCs, a new survey has found. According to data provided by pollster DMC Media, around 28 percent of South Korean bank account holders aged between [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean telecom companies are reshuffling their staff with a focus shift to more profitable and long-term projects such as 5G and AI. According to sources close to the mobile industry, SK Telecom has reorganized seven of its departments and prioritized units dealing with up-and-coming and next-generation services such [...]