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INCHEON, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has imported twice as many cats and dogs this year compared with two years ago as people spend more time at home amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, customs data showed Wednesday. According to the data by the regional customs office in Incheon, a main gateway for trade [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Cytiva, a U.S. producer of vaccine materials, has decided to invest US$52.5 million in South Korea for two years beginning next year, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday. The announcement came at a ceremony in New York, attended by President Moon Jae-in, on partnerships between South Korea and the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS addressed the U.N. General Assembly Monday and praised the world’s young people for welcoming the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The septet flew to New York to speak in person at the 76th U.N. General Assembly’s Sustainable Development Goals Moment event as special presidential [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean films led the box office in August, with the action flick “Escape from Mogadishu” placing first, according to recent data. A total of 7.91 million people went to the movies last month, leading to 76.4 billion won (US$64.9 million) in ticket sales, the Korean Film Council said Friday. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS flew to New York on Saturday to attend a United Nations event as a special presidential envoy. The chart-topping group is scheduled to attend the opening ceremony for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moment of the Decade of Action event in New York on Monday (U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127 released their third studio album “Sticker” Friday, offering a mix of genres from hip-hop and R&B to pop and dance in a total of 11 tracks. In an online press conference ahead of the release, the nine-piece act said they were excited to be [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has larger class sizes and lower employment rates among the highly educated than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) averages, the education ministry said Friday. According to the latest edition of the OECD’s “Education at a Glance,” released by the Ministry of Education, elementary and middle [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — With Disney+ soon to enter and intensify competition in the South Korean video streaming market, Coupang Inc. is stepping up to improve its own streaming platform. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp conducted a survey of smartphone users who are 10 years old or older, which showed that Coupang Play, a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in the immigrant film “Minari,” has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2021 by American weekly magazine TIME. The 74-year-old screen veteran made the annual list released Wednesday (U.S. time), [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lisa of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has offered to help improve children’s education in her hometown in Thailand, a South Korean foundation said Thursday. The rapper-dancer expressed an interest in joining a social program led by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange in Buriram Province, where she was [...]