SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Earlier this week, up and coming South Korean actor Park Bo-gum was embroiled in a scandal surrounding his questionable affiliation with the controversial Jesus Centered Church, after a post was uploaded on his Twitter account promoting an event tied to what many consider to be a religious cult. The controversy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — From a water bottle, a pair of glasses, to a watch, hidden cameras that enable criminal voyeurism now come in all shapes and forms, threatening the safety of victims, who are mostly women in South Korea. South Korea has been at war with criminal voyeurism for years, as hidden camera [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – With the 10 day-long Chuseok holiday fast approaching, the South Korean tourism industry finds itself at a critical turning point, with millions of South Koreans deciding between traveling around the country and going abroad. This year’s much anticipated Chuseok holiday, South Korea’s Thanksgiving celebration, is one of the longest in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Earlier this month, South Korean poet Choi Young-mi caused a storm after publicly posting a plea on her Facebook to ‘five-star hotels, preferably with a swimming pool’ to let her stay for free for a year, while offering in exchange to become an honorary ambassador to promote the hotel. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Facing the challenge of a declining birth rate, the lack of support for breastfeeding in South Korea has emerged as a pressing issue, as mothers and health authorities urge the country as a whole to do more to create a nursing-friendly environment. The medical perks of breastfeeding have been [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Just like the phrase ‘Netflix and Chill’ has become an inseparable part of the modern dating culture in the West in recent years, the lexicon of dating has been expanding on the other side of the world in South Korea also. The newly coined phrase ‘You wanna eat ramen before [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hit by the absence of Chinese tourists over South Korea’s deployment of a politically charged THAAD missile defense system, the future of Seoul’s iconic Myeongdong neighborhood is now shrouded in uncertainty. Reports of the economic damage caused by the lack of Chinese tourists on Myeongdong, a busy shopping district [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Criticism is growing against Seoul Metro’s controversial sale of subway station names, which began as an additional source of revenue to cover its deficits, with passengers slamming the policy that has now resulted in over 30 stations having two different names with little to no relevance to the location, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — As the country awaits the verdict next week in the wages lawsuit filed by Kia Motors’ labor union, which could have immense consequences for the South Korean automobile industry as a whole in the coming years, the debate over the legitimacy of so-called hard-line aristocratic labor unions is back [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – With South Korean dollar store giant Daiso Korea set to reach two trillion won in sales after 20 years of steady growth since its founding, concerns are growing over the negative impact of its dominance on small local businesses. Marking its 20th anniversary this year, Daiso, which specializes in [...]