SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s weekend launch of an “intermediate-and long-range” ballistic missile underscores the intransigent regime’s stated arms buildup in progress under a go-it-alone approach and its eagerness to tighten internal solidarity ahead of key political events, analysts here said Monday. In its seventh show of force this year, Pyongyang launched [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The already fraught ties between South Korea and Japan were dealt yet another setback Friday when Tokyo plowed ahead with the recommendation of a former mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage candidate despite Seoul’s objections. After weeks of deliberation, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A new workplace disaster law aimed at better protecting workers from industrial accidents went into effect Thursday in South Korea, putting local companies on edge on the first day of its enforcement. Under the new law, owners and CEOs of companies with five or more employees can face a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday it will introduce standard guidelines to protect animals appearing in films, TV series and advertisements. This comes as a response to the recent death of a horse that was forced to trip and fall while filming the KBS historical [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s romantic TV series have recently made their global presence strong through Netflix, prompting global streaming services to expand their 2022 slate with romances. The romantic comedy “Our Beloved Summer,” starring Choi Woo-shik of “Parasite” and Kim Da-mi, has been on the top 10 of Netflix’s official weekly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans have no interest in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a survey showed Friday. Gallup Korea polled 1,002 South Korean adults from Tuesday to Thursday on their thoughts on the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games in the Chinese capital. And 65 percent said they were not [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained the No. 2 supplier of popular content to Netflix in the fourth quarter of last year, U.S. online media have reported. According to What’s On Netflix, a private online site that provides information on Netflix content, on Wednesday (U.S. time), South Korean-made shows accounted for 11.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An unfriendly letter that a high school girl wrote to a soldier in the mandatory military service surprised many this week, not only because of the letter’s sarcastic tone but also due to the fact that the practice of having students send thank-you letters to troops still exists. In [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The European Union antitrust regulator on Thursday vetoed Hyundai Heavy Industries Group’s proposed acquisition of its smaller rival Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., citing monopoly issues. The European Commission announced its decision to block the merger of the South Korean shipbuilders, arguing the tie-up could create a monopoly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Thursday it will invest a total of 345.9 billion won (US$291.4 million) this year in projects harnessing such cutting-edge digitization technologies as metaverse, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Up to 1,067 projects, including those to be pursued by the city’s 25 districts, will [...]