SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of flavored tobacco products that are made by adding flavorings to regular tobacco products to give them a sweet or cool taste are growing at a blistering pace in the domestic market. According to the data that Rep. Choi Hye-young of the ruling Democratic Party received from the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With rising demand for Korean food among foreigners following the success of Netflix’s original Korean series “Squid Game”, retailers are scrambling to take action. Major online shopping mall Auction reported that between September 17 and 27, sales of marble kits (277 percent), dalgona kits (277 percent) and ttakji game [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Asking a job applicant whether she will wear a hijab at work is a discriminatory action, the state human rights watchdog has said. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said Monday it has recommended the chief of an unidentified nongovernmental organization come up with measures to prevent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Internal conflicts over job sharing among plants are deepening within the labor union at Hyundai Motor Co., with some unionized members even coming to blows during an argument over proceedings. The employment stability committee that the company’s management and labor union planned to host at Hyundai plant in Ulsan, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their teens and 20s, especially women in their 20s, are increasingly committing suicide due primarily to anxiety and a sense of desperation. Statistics Korea reported that from 2010 to 2020, the number of individuals who committed suicide annually dropped by 15.2 percent from 15,566 people [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of programs are being introduced to enjoy garbage-free hiking with South Koreans flocking to the mountains in large numbers to enjoy the gorgeous autumn weather. National parks across the country have introduced a green points program that credits hikers who bring back garbage, with the points useable [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With the rise of what is known as “the body positivity movement,” whose main purpose centers around addressing unrealistic body standards, unrealistically tall and skinny mannequins are being replaced by plus-size ones. SPAO, a specialty retailer of private label apparel (SPA) brand run by E-Land World, will introduce mannequins [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 15,500 foreigners from visa-waiver countries used the new electronic travel authorization system to enter South Korea in the first month of its introduction, justice ministry data showed Sunday. A total of 15,811 foreign nationals applied for the Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) in September, and 15,556 of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has developed an artificial intelligence-based translation program with enhanced speed and accuracy, a propaganda outlet reported Sunday. DPRK Today, a propaganda website, carried a report introducing the research result of the AI institute of Kim Il-sung University on the creation and introduction of Ryongma, an AI technology-based [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group advocating for national reunification called Saturday for the lifting of South Korea’s standalone sanctions against North Korea and the resumption of a now-shuttered joint industrial complex to pave the way for a thaw in cross-border ties. The South Korean Committee for Implementation of the June 15 [...]