SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam’s state airline has gifted Park Hang-seo, the South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men’s national football team, with a ticket that provides permanent access to any of its flights. Vietnamese state-run media VTC reported that Vietnam Airlines presented park and his wife tickets that provide permanent business [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jin, a member of the K-pop superband BTS, has shared his first photos taken after joining the military as he completed five weeks of basic training at a front-line boot camp. Jin entered the army recruit training center of the 5th Infantry Division in Yeoncheon, 60 kilometers north of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, said Wednesday it had made new employee ID card cases by recycling waste helmets from its construction sites. The company said that it was the first among domestic companies to make employee ID card cases using waste generated during business [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top messenger app operator Kakao Corp. said Tuesday it has introduced “memorial profiles” to KakaoTalk to keep deceased users in remembrance. Previously, KakaoTalk profiles of deceased people that were locked for not being accessed for more than a year or their phone being deregistered would be set [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming subscription service, announced Wednesday the launch of a program to support rising Korean hip-hop artists. Kicking off and as part of the “K-hip-hop Rookies” program, five hip-hop rookies who took part in the South Korean TV rap competition show “Show Me The Money [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group aespa will perform at The Governors Ball Music Festival 2023, a major annual outdoor music festival in New York City, the group’s agency said Wednesday. It will become the first K-pop act to perform at the festival, according to SM Entertainment. This year’s event will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Mountaineer Kim Young-mi said Tuesday she has reached the South Pole alone and unassisted, becoming the first South Korean to achieve the feat. The 42-year-old climber of North Face Athletes & Team departed from the Hercules Inlet in South Pole on Nov. 27 and traveled 1,186.5 kilometers over 51 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Choi Yena, a K-pop soloist who was a member of the now-disbanded project girl group IZ*ONE, freed herself of the bubbly and bright image from her previous albums with the release of her first single, “Love War,” on Monday. She made a 180-degree turn to appear as a dark [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — GOT the beat, SM Entertainment’s project girl group, returned with a new album Monday, the group’s agency said. The septet’s first EP, “Stamp On It,” consists of six tracks, including the title track of the same name, “Goddess Level” and “Alter Ego,” according to SM. The song “Stamp On [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together will launch its second world tour in March, the group’s management agency said Monday. The “Act: Sweet Mirage” world tour will begin at KSPO Dome in southern Seoul on March 25-26 and continue in a dozen more cities in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and [...]