SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is projected to win seven gold medals to set its Winter Games record and rank sixth overall at the upcoming PyeongChang Olympics, a U.S. sports data analysis firm said Tuesday. Gracenote’s Virtual Medal Table showed South Korea will capture seven gold and three silver medals as the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Applications for mobile payments and money transfers marked the biggest growth in the smartphone app market last year, data provided by Nielsen Korea showed Tuesday. Five of the top 10 apps from January to November last year were those referred to as fintech, short for financial technology, apps. Toss, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean star Son Heung-min has seen his transfer value rise for 2018, data showed Tuesday. The International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) Football Observatory ranked players in the five major European leagues — in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France — based on their transfer values. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Questions are being raised as to why the marketing of alcohol is not receiving the same level of attention from regulators as tobacco products are. These viewpoints were expressed as a special committee formed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare held its first meeting last week at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the 557 public elementary schools in Seoul, 34 have less than 50 new pupils starting first grade this year (the school year begins in what would be considered the spring term in most English-speaking countries). Other primary schools throughout the city, meanwhile, have prospective first grade classes of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – January 8, 2018 marks the North Korean Fearless Leader’s 34th birthday, but the wishing of many happy returns appears to be happening only behind closed doors as all remains quiet on the Northern front. In the pre-noon hours of the day, none of the various mouthpieces of the communist [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting in June, fire-fighting vehicles around the country will be facing a far easier path to their destination due to changes to the Firefighting Services Act. Going into effect June 27, vehicles that are causing an obstruction can be removed by fire departments, and furthermore, the emergency services will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – This Thursday, the latest Matt Damon flick, “Downsizing”, premieres at cinemas across South Korea. Its premise is built on the fantastical notion of a technology that can ‘downsize’ human beings to 5 inches in size for the purpose of combating overpopulation, and as one can expect, protagonist Matt Damon [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has completed construction of a new ski resort in its northern region, the country’s state media reported Monday. Located on the outskirts of Kanggye, Jagang Province, near the border with China, the resort opened a day earlier in an official ceremony attended by senior party officials there, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Taeyang of K-pop boy band BIGBANG will release a song for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, his agency said Monday. YG Entertainment said the singer, an honorary ambassador for the games, is set to release “Louder,” a song wishing for South Korea’s successful hosting of the global sports event, [...]