SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Judicial groups and legal platforms are edging towards an all-out dispute. The Korean Bar Association (KBA) held a board meeting early this month, deciding to ban lawyers from joining promotion platforms starting in August. Those who violate the decision will be penalized. LawTalk, South Korea’s leading promotion platform for [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s push to scrap three types of elite high schools in 2025 has come under greater scrutiny following a series of court rulings in favor of keeping the institutions intact. The latest development came Friday when the Seoul Administrative Court ruled that it was illegal for the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With more Koreans postponing marriage and even having a child as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, experts are raising the prospects of a ‘population shock’. A study by professor Choi Seul-ki from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management and professor Kye Bong-oh from Kookmin University [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of healthcare workers in the Seoul area who have received COVID-19 vaccine shots have experienced side effects such as pain and fever. The Seoul Medical Association conducted a survey of 1,708 members, with 88.4 percent of those who had been vaccinated (1,704 people) indicating that they [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — When contemporary artist Mari Kim was suggested to “mint” one of her artworks to sell it as an NFT, she did not hesitate. “The sooner, the better,” she thought to herself. NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens,” have taken the global art world by storm, with artist Beeple’s digital work fetching [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and retail industry is on alert following controversies surrounding misandry sparked by a company’s ad poster. Early this month, convenience store chain GS25 created a poster to promote a special give-away for all customers buying food for camping. Online forums accused the company of releasing a [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women in their 20s show the biggest difference in their levels of sexual harassment understanding and gender equality consciousness than other age groups, research released by the state human rights watchdog said Saturday. According to the report by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), men [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called ‘meatless meat’ that is made from plant-based ingredients without animal products is gaining popularity among consumers. Shinsegae Food Inc., the food unit of of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, reported that sales of its ‘No-chicken Nuggets’, released last month, were three times higher than the company’s sales projections. [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — “Grandma, you’re not a real grandma,” Soon-ja’s grandson David nags in the poignant immigration film “Minari.” “What is a real grandma?” asks the atypical grandma Soon-ja, played by Oscar-winning South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung. Both on the shoots and in real life, the 73-year-old veteran may be far from [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The MZ generation, or those in their 20s and 30s, are rattling South Korea’s financial market. They are known as the desperate generation, for whom their life savings isn’t enough to buy a single home, and saving up for retirement is only a dream. Hence, they resort to aggressive [...]