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SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kai, a member of K-pop boy band EXO, said Monday that he wants to open a new chapter in his singing career through his upcoming first solo album “KAI (开).” “I’ve danced or sung by myself in EXO’s concerts, but this is my first time being onstage as a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop act IZ*ONE will release a new album next month, its management agency said Monday, amid a lingering controversy over vote-rigging in the audition program that it debuted through. The band will drop its fourth EP, “One-reeler/Act Ⅳ” on Dec. 7, Off the Record said. The album, the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Kimchi is not just fermented cabbage but a central part of Korea’s food culture, and the process of making it has already been recognized as a global standard for nearly two decades, Seoul’s agriculture ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs made the remark to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – “BE,” the latest album by K-pop megastars BTS, has landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the group’s fifth album to top the Billboard’s main albums chart. “BTS lands its fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as ‘Be’ bows atop the tally,” U.S. music [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The ruling Democratic Party has raised its coronavirus vaccine supply target to 44 million people, or 85 percent of the country’s population, a key party source said Sunday. The figure is sharply higher than the 30 million target previously cited by health authorities. To secure the vaccines, the party [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — East coast cities and towns are nervously waiting for the onset of the year-end and new year holiday season, fearing a massive influx of tourists at their sunrise hotspots will further heighten chances of the spread of the coronavirus. Many local governments along Gangwon Province’s eastern coast have already [...]
CHEONGJU, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A website has opened to introduce “Jikji,” the world’s oldest existing metal-printed book, in multiple languages, a South Korean museum said Friday. The site provides detailed history and description of “Jikji” in 11 languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, French and Spanish, according to the Cheongju Early Printing Museum. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of weekday moviegoers in South Korea dropped this week under the heightened antivirus curbs during the third wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Friday. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) said 83,050 and 60,891 visited theaters on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, down from 91,175 and 86,091 [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a reverse-aging technology that can transform aged cells into young cells. A joint team consisting of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and those from cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. said Thursday it had developed a reverse-aging technology that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea joined the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiative (CEPI) and pledged to donate US$3 million this year to help develop vaccines for COVID-19 and other emerging epidemics, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The CEPI is a global partnership joined by public, private and civil society organizations to fund [...]