SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Characters from the animated film K‑Pop Demon Hunters are drawing online attention that rivals — and in some cases surpasses — that of real-world global pop stars, underscoring the growing power of virtual idols in the social media age. According to an analysis cited by The Guardian, data from marketing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of traditional cultural merchandise tied to South Korea’s palaces and heritage sites reached a record high last year, buoyed by the global surge of interest in K-culture and the growing appeal of heritage-inspired products to foreign visitors. The Korea Heritage Agency (KHA) said Friday that combined online and offline [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nongshim Co., South Korea’s leading instant noodle maker, said Tuesday it has opened its fourth overseas “experience space” for “ramyeon” products at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The U.S. outlet follows earlier openings of Shin Ramyun Bunsik in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in August; Harajuku, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Son Heung-min’s picturesque free kick goal has been chosen by fans as South Korean football’s best goal of 2025. The Korea Football Association (KFA) announced Monday that Son’s right-footed curler in a 2-0 friendly win over Bolivia on Nov. 14 has been voted as the 2025 KFA Goal of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s e-sports icon Lee Sang-hyeok, better known to millions of fans as Faker, said Thursday he is confident his League of Legends team, T1, can defeat an artificial intelligence opponent proposed by Elon Musk for next year. Speaking at a press conference in Seoul, Lee welcomed the tech industry’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to expand its national heritage–based industries into a ₩100 trillion ($75 billion) market over the next five years, positioning cultural legacy as a core driver of the country’s global soft power, the Korea Heritage Service (KHS) said Wednesday in its 2026 policy blueprint. The initiative comes amid [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun real-world testing of a new solar-generating window film designed to turn high-rise buildings into power producers, marking a potential breakthrough for urban renewable energy. Korea Southern Power (KOSPO) said Tuesday it has launched a demonstration project with the Korea Institute of Materials Science to evaluate [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sporting year unfolded around one outsized figure: Son Heung-min. The national football icon lifted his first European trophy with Tottenham Hotspur in the spring, then stunned fans by crossing the Atlantic to join Los Angeles Football Club, a move that instantly turned him into Major League Soccer’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — When Son Heung-min stepped back onto the pitch at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Tuesday night, it felt less like a ceremonial cameo and more like the closing of a decade-long relationship. Four months after leaving North London for Los Angeles Football Club, the South Korean forward finally stood before a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — On a public bulletin board outside the Namdaemun police substation in central Seoul, posters show faces of missing children — not only as they once appeared decades ago, but as they likely look today. A 13-year-old boy missing since the late 1980s is pictured as a man in his 50s; [...]