ANSEONG, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Koh Jin-taek is proud of having built a small but stable farming business in Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul, over the past two decades producing primarily lettuce, chicory and other types of leafy vegetables. He currently owns 44 vinyl greenhouses and had supplied nearly 10,000 kilograms of produce [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean professional sports leagues welcomed the government’s decision on Friday to allow fully vaccinated people at outdoor sports games in the capital region, where teams have been playing in empty stadiums for the past three months during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Monday, pro sports teams in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will consider introducing a “vaccine pass” for people’s gradual return to normal life, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Wednesday, as the country prepares to adopt a “living with COVID-19″ scheme. Kim hinted at easing virus prevention measures under the new scheme, which is expected to begin Nov. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday drastically raised the level of its greenhouse gas reduction goal from 26.3 percent to 40 percent by 2030, as part of its broader aim to slowly phase out conventional resources and go carbon neutral by 2050. The revised aim in national greenhouse gas reduction, or [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea enjoys a vast amount of soft power in the international community but has to contribute more diplomatically to the global community to be able to put its newly found influence to use, experts in the United States and South Korea said Tuesday. In an online event cosponsored [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Businesses are speeding up competition in the hydrogen industry as they set up new corporations or engage foreign businesses. Doosan Group recently established Doosan H2 Innovation, a new corporation that will be in charge of developing solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). The group also plans to reorganize the R&D [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s video game powerhouses are eyeing new grounds, from K-pop to TV shows, in search for new audiences as they become increasingly outshined by a new generation of game companies. Earlier this year, NCSOFT Corp., the creator of the hit fantasy series “Lineage,” launched a K-pop fan platform [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans agree on the need to declare a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War, as proposed by President Moon Jae-in, a survey showed Wednesday. According to survey of 1,000 adults by the National Unification Advisory Council on Sept. 24 and 25, 67.8 percent said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwang Dong-hyuk, the writer-director of the hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” has said the show’s global popularity is something he never expected. “It’s just a surprise. It’s incredible that all this craze happened within a week,” Hwang said in a media interview held online Tuesday. “As a creator, I’m [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is facing suspicion that its customer data is being managed by a subsidiary in China and the risk of information leakage is high since the Chinese government can access such information. Independent lawmaker Yang Jung-suk claimed that Coupang has stored and managed customer and location [...]