SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that gamblers who once used to frequent Kangwon Land, the country’s only casino open to locals, are now engaging in illegal gambling after it was shut down following the coronavirus outbreak. Kim Yong-geun, a member of Kangwon Land’s addiction management center, and Hong Hye-mi, a [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The 23rd World Korean Language Speech Contest for Foreigners, held online Thursday for the very first time, was a stage for one-of-a-kind contestants. Zeynep Ben Hamza, a 21-year-old contestant from Tunisia and the winner of a Korean speech contest held at the Korean embassy in Tunisia, is a speaker [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s Pony Coupe, the first concept car in South Korea, will be revived in the new map ‘Taiko’ from the mega-hit computer game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.” The company recently announced that it will unveil a Pony Coupe video through a partnership with Krafton Inc., a South Korean gaming [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Two years have passed since the so-called anti-bullying law went into effect at domestic workplaces, but there are still many loopholes in the application of the law depending on the business size or type of employment, labor experts said Sunday. Under the revision of the Labor Standards Act that [...]
TOKYO, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Saturday took down banners at its Olympic athletes’ village with a nod to history, following a request from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said the IOC had raised issues with the message written across a few banners, initially hung [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government has released footage of the U.S. Air Force’s bombing of Yongsan in July 1950 during the Korean War, images that have previously been unseen in the country. On July 16, 1950, U.S. Air Force planes dropped bombs on the central Seoul district of Yongsan to [...]
TOKYO, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials of a far-right Japanese political party protested banners with a nod to history hung outside South Korean quarters at the Olympic athletes’ village on Friday, accusing the visitors of making an overtly political display of anti-Japanese sentiment. Members of the minor National Party of Japan brought the Rising [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean online gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based translation engine for the first time in the country’s gaming industry. Users can now access real-time translation service between Korean and English on ‘Purple Talk,’ a messenger service available on ‘Purple,’ NCSOFT’s gaming platform. The new [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As the spread of COVID-19 is accelerating in Yeouido, a business district in Seoul that is home to many financial services companies, South Korean health authorities banned the use of outdoor smoking booths in this area until July 31. The move, however, is stoking controversy among some citizens who [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of millennials and Generation Z – the MZ generation born between 1980 and 2000 – among parcel delivery drivers is gradually increasing. The number of parcel delivery drivers employed by the company stood at 22,000 in the first half of this year, of which those born between [...]