SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Three indigenous streaming platforms in South Korea saw a rise in their users in May while global streaming giant Netflix suffered a slight fall. Tving, the nation’s largest streaming platform run by CJ ENM, saw the number of its monthly active users reach some 5.15 million in May, up [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The role of “prompt engineers,” responsible for optimizing the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, is emerging as a promising profession, but a debate is intensifying regarding its future. Kang Soo-jin, a linguistics PhD, recently secured a position as a prompt engineer at the South Korean [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker by sales, said Monday it has hired a former BMW exterior designer in the latest move to strengthen its design capabilities. John Buckingham began serving as head of Kia Next Design Exterior Group on June 1 after spending 18 years as exterior designer [...]
BUSAN, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In the film “A Time to Kill (1996),” a black father takes the law into his own hands when he shoots and kills two white men in a courtroom. He commits this act of vigilante justice as a response to the rape of his young daughter by two white [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — During the peak of the pandemic between 2020 and 2022, South Korea grappled with a troubling reality: the number of suicides, totaling 39,267, exceeded the count of coronavirus-related deaths, which stood at 32,056. This disconcerting trend has sparked serious concerns within the country. According to a recent report from [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on June 13, has grown from a lesser-known hip-hop idol group to the most successful K-pop band, breaking numerous records in K-pop history along the way. Initially launched as a band under Big Hit Entertainment, a smaller K-pop label that later transformed into [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a gradual increase in sleep duration among Koreans, the prevalence of inadequate sleep persists, accompanied by a concerning decline in sleep quality. Imbalanced sleep patterns pose a significant risk to mental health. The average amount of sleep South Koreans get has experienced a gradual increase over the past [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Samdasoo, one of the most popular bottled water brands in South Korea, joyfully announced its 25th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, accompanied by a remarkable achievement of cumulative sales exceeding 3.5 trillion won (US$2.68 billion). With an unwavering market dominance of 40 percent over the past five years, this [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. could hold the summer edition of its Galaxy Unpacked event on its home turf for the first time, a senior Samsung executive has hinted. “Seoul is meaningful and important,” Lee Young-hee, president of the Global Marketing Center for Samsung’s Device eXperience (DX) division, said Thursday when [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A fiber made from recycled fishing nets by Hyosung TNC Corp. will be utilized in the production of outdoor garments. The textile manufacturer said Thursday that it has partnered with outdoor brands such as The North Face and K2 to incorporate its Regen Ocean Nylon into this year’s spring [...]