SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An ad supporting part-time workers’ labor rights is being involved in an unexpected controversy, and is at the forefront of a showdown between the nation’s employers and job seekers. The commercial, which was created by AlbaMon, a job information site, features Hyeri, a member of the popular K-pop girl [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Chinese remake of the popular South Korean film “Miss Granny” has surpassed 10 million viewers in China, the movie’s South Korean co-producer said Tuesday. Since its release on Jan. 8 in 5,500 theaters across China, the Chinese-language film with the same English title, “Miss Granny,” had been watched by [...]
BEIJING, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Web users have flocked to illegal video-streaming sites to see the “The Interview,” a Sony Pictures parody film about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The satire film, which debuted in some 300 theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, has [...]
![[In-depth] Korea’s Postpartum Care Centers Highlight the Nation’s Widening Income Gap](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/baby1-800x542.jpg "[In-depth] Korea’s Postpartum Care Centers Highlight the Nation’s Widening Income Gap")
SEOUL, Dec 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Even though the Korean government has for years worked hard to raise the nation’s rate of child births to get away from the disgrace as a country with the world’s lowest birthrate, its bid has not been so successful as the country remains at the bottom of the list [...]
![[In-depth] “Kakao Taxi” Expected to Change Landscape of Korean Taxi App Market](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/30244206_m-800x533.jpg "[In-depth] “Kakao Taxi” Expected to Change Landscape of Korean Taxi App Market")
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As Daum Kakao, Korea’s largest mobile messenger service provider, is set to launch a mobile call taxi service “Kakao Taxi” by the first quarter of next year amid the ongoing controversy over Uber, the taxi app industry is likely to undergo a sea change. Comparing to Uber which was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A man in his late 30s was arrested in Seoul on December 16 for habitual burglary breaking and entering houses in dozens of cases. Upon investigation by the police it turned out he set out to steal to prepare funds for his wedding scheduled in April next year after [...]
![[In-depth] Foreign Investment Firms Put out Rosy Predictions for 2015 Korea Economy](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/34402175_m-800x512.jpg "[In-depth] Foreign Investment Firms Put out Rosy Predictions for 2015 Korea Economy")
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign investment firms are putting out a series of optimistic forecasts for the stock market in 2015, which are overall more generous than those of domestic firms. For example, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, the asset management firm with US$280 billion under management, said in a recent report on the Korean market for [...]
![[In-depth] McDonald’s Labor Malpractice Incident May Become Landmark Case for Part-timers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mcdelivery-800x600.jpg "[In-depth] McDonald’s Labor Malpractice Incident May Become Landmark Case for Part-timers")
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As Lee Ga-youn, a college student who used to work in a McDonald’s until her sudden layoff, filed for mediation with the Seoul National Labor Relations Commission, the issue of part-time workers and their abysmal treatment in the service workplace has come to the fore. She was given [...]
![[In-depth] Brown Bear Attacks and Kills Aged Lion in a Zoo](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/11346312874_2dbbb9be40_z.jpg "[In-depth] Brown Bear Attacks and Kills Aged Lion in a Zoo")
JINJU, Korea, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the Jinyang Lake Zoo run by the city government of Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, there was an incident in which a male brown bear attacked an aged female lion. The lion died on the following day from injuries, but the zoo administrators reported it to the city authority [...]
![[In-Depth] Appeals Court Judges Rule in Favor of Korean Air in Photo Copyright Case](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/solseom-of-korean-airlines.jpg "[In-Depth] Appeals Court Judges Rule in Favor of Korean Air in Photo Copyright Case")
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In a legal dispute surrounding a photograph’s copyright, the appeals court judges ruled in favor of the defendant, Korean Air, confirming the lower court’s verdict. The plaintiff Gallery Kong, the Korean agency representing the interest of professional photographer Michael Kenna, had lost a lawsuit in early March this year [...]