LAS VEGAS & SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics on Sunday unveiled a 130-inch Micro RGB television, its largest and most advanced display to date, ahead of the opening of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, underscoring the company’s push to redefine the ultra-premium TV market through next-generation display and artificial intelligence technologies. The new [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s hit animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” has clinched two prizes at the Critics Choice Awards, winning Best Animated Feature and Best Song. The movie directed by Korean Canadian filmmaker Maggie Kang was named Best Animated Feature at the 31st Critics Choice Awards held Sunday (local time) in Santa [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Defense Ministry is weighing an unconventional idea to confront two converging national challenges: a shrinking pool of young recruits and a growing cohort of unemployed older men. Officials are considering employing men in their 50s and 60s as border and security personnel, a proposal that has drawn both [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s most familiar fish may soon become a luxury item. Mackerel, a staple of the Korean diet, is facing mounting supply pressures as climate change shrinks domestic catches and Norway — the country’s dominant foreign supplier — moves to sharply cut its harvest. The combined squeeze is already pushing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is on the brink of posting its strongest quarterly operating profit ever, buoyed by a historic surge in memory chip prices and a revival in high-bandwidth memory used for artificial intelligence, analysts and industry data show. The company is expected to announce preliminary fourth-quarter earnings later this week, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display will use CES 2026 to showcase how organic light-emitting diode technology is evolving into a central interface between humans and artificial intelligence, as the company seeks to position OLED screens as the backbone of next-generation AI devices across work, home and mobility. The South Korean display maker said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean investors poured record sums into exchange-traded funds last year, with both retail and foreign investors gravitating toward overseas equity benchmarks and high-growth thematic products, underscoring a broad shift in the country’s investment landscape. According to data released Sunday by financial information provider Yonhap Infomax, individual investors’ most heavily [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s richest business leaders saw a sharp surge in their stock wealth over the past year, lifted by a strong rally in domestic equities, with gains exceeding 35 trillion won ($26 billion) among the heads of the country’s largest conglomerates, according to a new analysis released Monday. A report [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s venture companies have sharply strengthened their technological competitiveness over the past decade, significantly expanding research and development spending and intellectual property holdings while also improving their financial health, according to a government-backed survey released on Sunday. Data from the Venture Enterprise Survey, comparing results from 2015 and 2025, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at smaller companies in South Korea are significantly less satisfied with their jobs and more likely to experience violations of labor laws than those at larger firms, according to a new survey released on Sunday by the civic group Workplace Bullying 119. The survey, conducted by Global Research between [...]