SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. was the second-biggest supplier of electric vehicle (EV) batteries in the first 11 months of the year following China’s CATL, a market research firm said Thursday. LG Energy Solution, which spun off from LG Chem Ltd. earlier this month, shipped 26.4 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that South Koreans prefer a woman with an oval face, wide forehead and small lips. The female face shape preferred by South Koreans turned out to be different from the one preferred by Paraguayans. A joint research team from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of visitors to vet clinics feel uncomfortable with the exorbitant cost of medical treatment as well as overtreatment, a consumer advocacy group said Tuesday. The Consumer Union of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 consumers with prior experience of visiting a vet clinics, 80.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday began to offer its website in 100 foreign languages using Google Inc.’s translation service. The website can now be seen in languages such as Nepali, Vietnamese and Cambodian, in addition to the existing six — English, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese, French and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to impose stricter measures to prevent abuse of refugee status applications with malicious intent to extend the duration of stay. The Ministry of Justice announced the introduction of a newly amended refugee law Monday that will reject all reapplications for refugee status unless an exceptional [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean entertainment gurus — Bang Si-hyuk and Lee Mie-kyung, widely known as Miky Lee — have been named by U.S. magazine Variety as among the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry in 2020. Big Hit Entertainment said Tuesday that Bang, the 48-year-old CEO [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Grandma style’ is becoming a new trend among millennials. The so-called ‘halmennial,’ a new term that combines a Korean expression for ‘grandma’ with millennial, is becoming a new keyword of the generation as they become more intrigued by the retro style of life. Searching for the term ‘grandma food’ [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent days, there have been frequent cases in which YouTube videos containing revelatory or defamatory content turned out to be manipulated or contain information that was demonstrably false. The owner of a restaurant in Daegu recently filed a public petition on the website of the presidential office saying [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Voices are growing calling for better living conditions for migrant workers after a recent tragedy in which a Cambodian woman who worked on a farm in Gyeonggi Province was found dead at her accommodations in a vinyl greenhouse. According to a migrant worker rights group, the Cambodian woman lived [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to extend the current social-distancing restrictions in the greater Seoul area until Jan. 3, opting not to raise them to the toughest level, despite the winter wave of the novel coronavirus, officials said Sunday. Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol announced that the Level 2.5 distancing, the second [...]