SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital maps are helping South Koreans keep track of COVID-19 amid a deluge of information on the contagious virus as the number of patients are increasing by the hundreds. South Korea’s infections remained relatively stable until mid-February. The total number of patients hovered around 30 and even remained unchanged [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of coronavirus infections in South Korea are linked to the homegrown religious group of Shincheonji, data showed Sunday. The religious organization, known as Shincheonji Church of Jesus, Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, has been suspected as a hotbed for the recent surge in infections [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled in favor of the ride-hailing service Tada as a legitimate rental car service Wednesday, in a landmark decision that will likely support the mobility platform industry. The Seoul Central District Court acquitted Lee Jae-woong, car-sharing app operator SoCar, and Park Jae-uk, head of SoCar’s subsidiary [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — It all began on Jan. 20. South Korea reported its first case of the new coronavirus, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and can cause pneumonia-like illness. As the days went by, the number of patients began to rise, with fears over the little-known disease also [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A record 220 million spectators visited movie theaters in South Korea last year, helping a record five films garner more than 10 million viewers each, a report showed Saturday. According to a report on the South Korean movie industry in 2019 published by the Korean Film Council, the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has reportedly decided to release 1.2 million tons of contaminated water currently stored at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the sea, despite protests from South Korea. Greenpeace, an environmental non-governmental organization, reported that the final report submitted on Monday by the expert sub-committee on contaminated water at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Kyung-sook, an 84-year-old Seoul citizen, visited a multiplex theater in the posh southern district of Gangnam on Wednesday afternoon with her daughter and grandson. Wearing a mask to protect herself from the novel coronavirus, she said she was so proud of the homegrown movie “Parasite”‘s triumph in at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of South Koreans do not trust the South Korean Protestant Church or its pastors, a recent study has revealed. The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 citizens, 63.9 percent of whom said they don’t trust the South Korean Protestant Church. Only 31.8 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” This remark by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho at this year’s Golden Globes Awards after winning best foreign language film has resonated in the U.S., where few non-English films have won [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — It took about 40 years for a timid 12-year-old South Korean boy who dreamed of becoming a film director to grow up and capture four Oscar statuettes, including the most prestigious best picture. His black comedy “Parasite” was the biggest winner of this year’s Academy Awards held at Dolby [...]