SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho’s sensational black comedy “Parasite” has bagged four Oscar titles, becoming the first non-English language film to win best picture. At the 92nd Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (U.S. local time), Bong’s seventh feature film, a tale of class division, won [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On top of tracking down potential victims of the new and poorly understood coronavirus and searching for cures that can help treat it, South Korea has another agenda to fight for: tackling fake news. Two weeks after confirming the country’s first infection on Jan. 20, South Korea has seen [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is heating up on university campuses over a transgender student who was accepted to Sookmyung Women’s University (SWU) after undergoing sex-change surgery from male to female. There are claims that gender changes threaten women’s rights and safety, while signatures “welcoming” the transgender student are continuing among the alumni [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the unrest caused by the coronavirus, some South Koreans residing overseas are being subject to discrimination. Foreign netizens posted malicious comments online after Son Heung-min, a South Korean football player for Tottenham Hotspur, was seen making a small cough following a victorious match against Manchester City last Monday. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With new cases of coronavirus infection, commonly known as the Wuhan coronavirus, spreading around the world, attention is being paid to kimchi in the U.S. This is due to the fact that the immune effects of kimchi were expressed during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak. A [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 85,000 terminally ill South Koreans have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since the legalization of the right to die with dignity two years ago, government data showed Tuesday. The law took effect on Feb. 4, 2018, allowing terminal patients to sign up to forgo a “meaningless extension [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at Sookmyung Women’s University are strongly opposing the recent decision by school authorities that a transgender female has been admitted to the university. The transgender female, 22, received a sex change operation in Thailand last year and was reassigned a new gender by authorities before being admitted to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A total of 336 schools in South Korea have temporarily shut down or postponed the start of the new semester due to fears of the spread of the new coronavirus, government data showed Monday. According to the Ministry of Education, 245 kindergartens, 53 elementary schools, 21 middle schools, 16 high [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean manufacturers, led by carmakers, appear to be beginning to feel the pinch of the rapid spread of the new coronavirus, with possible disruption to production and plant operations around the corner, industry sources said Friday. Hyundai Motor Co. and other major manufacturers have been operating plants in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every ten South Koreans continue to work after retirement, which is high compared to other developed countries. The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) conducted an online survey in September last year of 1,000 people with voting rights in 16 countries, including South Korea, the [...]