SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Having enthralled some 210,000 fans with the Japanese edition in July of its “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” world tour, K-pop super band BTS returned home to a hero’s welcome for its feat of bringing the peoples of South Korea and Japan together despite the countries’ deteriorating diplomatic ties. When [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The worldwide popularity of Korean spicy food led by Samyang Foods Co.’s Spicy Chicken Ramen is encouraging foreign companies to come up with ‘me too’ products. The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. (aT) reported on Sunday that Indonesia’s leading noodle brand, Mie Sedaap, recently introduced its own version [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major battery makers are striving to secure key materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, with demand for cathode metals spiking in line with the EV battery sector’s sharp growth, industry watchers said Monday. According to market tracker SNE Research, 112,000 tons of cathode materials were used in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A “one-strike” system will be introduced to prevent ex-convicts of domestic violence from inviting foreigners from Vietnam and other countries to get married internationally. The measure is aimed at preventing such incidents as the “Vietnamese marriage immigrant assault case,” in which a video clip of indiscriminate assault on a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The boycott movement against Japan within South Korea, sparked by export restrictions imposed last month by Shinzo Abe’s government, has even spread to Japanese brand cigarettes. The number of cigarettes imported to South Korea from the Philippines came to 403 tons last month, down 31.9 tons or 7.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — One year of tuition at a private elementary school in Seoul is equivalent to a year of college study, an opposition lawmaker said Tuesday. According to data from Rep. Yeo Young-guk of the minor opposition Justice Party Monday, the annual tuition fees in 2018 for 39 private elementary schools in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As the heat wave continues, Incheon International Airport is becoming a “hot place” for the elderly. However, these elderly guests are no longer welcome at the airport. While the summer heat reaches its peak with outdoor temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius, the indoor temperature at the airport is [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Every end of July, the city of Daegu holds its signature Chimac (combination of chicken and beer in Korean) Festival to fight off summer heat. The festival gathered more than 270,000 people over just three days when it first began in 2013, and won the title of Daegu’s most [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken a first step toward free high school education by exempting all third graders from their entire education expenses starting in the fall semester, the Ministry of Education said Monday. As most high schools nationwide resumed classes on the day after a lengthy summer vacation, about [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s coal consumption increased last year, bucking the global trend for reducing carbon emissions, a report showed Sunday. South Korea consumed 88.2 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE), a unit of energy, in 2018, up 2.4 percent from a year ago, according to the London-based energy company BP’s [...]