SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2018 Winter Olympics, which officially kicked off today in PyeongChang, face the risk of being politicized by world leaders amid heightened geopolitical tensions on the Korean peninsula. Playing politics at the Olympics is not entirely new, but the current political climate could see political agendas pushed by world leaders [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 35,000 spectators are expected to attend the Winter Olympics opening ceremony out in the cold at the roofless PyeongChang Olympic Stadium this Friday, with officials scrambling to ensure that those present are as comfortable as possible. With sub-zero temperatures continuing to grip most of the country amid a severe [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s move to ban the sale of coffee drinks at schools across South Korea is drawing criticism, despite the well-intentioned goal to reduce caffeine intake among students. The rationale behind the coffee ban is to prohibit the consumption of high-caffeine drinks, which can cause shakiness, rapid heart rate, sleep [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The cryptocurrency craze continues to sweep across South Korea despite the government’s hard-line stance, particularly thanks to young people who are hoping to turn their lives around with a get-rich-quick investment scheme. With over 1 million cryptocurrency trading accounts, the high level of public interest in virtual currencies in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite numerous studies that vouch for the effectiveness of cough etiquette, the practice of ‘covering one’s mouth while coughing’ has yet to take root in South Korea. “You can cough during a performance. I know you can’t help coughing. I would just like you to cough with your mouth covered,” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is being criticized for pushing for a showcase of inter-Korean unity at the PyeongChang Olympics through a series of high-level talks. Dialogue between the two Koreas continues over the logistics of North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics next month, as officials from Seoul and Pyongyang [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the family-friendly image of traditional holidays, a significant number of couples file for divorce around traditional family holidays such as Lunar New Year and Chuseok. Data from the National Court Administration shows that nearly twice as many married couples file for divorce during the 10 days before and after [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The story of an ambulance driver facing prosecution after a car accident last week caused uproar in South Korea. The private ambulance carrying a two-month-old infant ran a red light, according to police, before colliding with an SUV while traveling from one hospital in North Chungcheong Province to another in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly having discussions over their unique way of calculating age, which has met as much curiosity as the confusion it has generated. Known as East Asian age reckoning, many Asian countries used to follow the practice of understanding age one as the starting point of life. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Government data has revealed nearly 4 in 10 South Korean adult men are obese, despite Koreans in general being some of the slimmest people among developed countries. According to the National Health Insurance Services’ 2017 Obesity White Paper last week, nearly 34 percent of South Koreans who received a [...]