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SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s major night markets are set to reopen, their operator said Monday, after more than two years of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seoul metropolitan government previously operated a number of night markets at different locations to attract tourists and offer more business opportunities for small vendors. [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together’s fourth EP entered Billboard’s main albums chart at No. 4, the U.S. magazine said. Billboard said in an article posted on its homepage Sunday (U.S. time) that “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child” placed fourth on the Billboard 200 for this week, becoming the highest-charting [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Colombia will participate in the 2022 Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF) next month as the guest of honor to commemorate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between South Korea and the South American country, the event’s organizers said Monday. This year’s SIBF, the country’s biggest annual book fair, will [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean vaccine maker SK Bioscience Co. said Monday it has secured a US$31.3 million deal from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to supply chickenpox vaccines to Latin American countries. SK Bioscience said it has recently delivered its first batch of shipments of SKY Varicella, the company’s chickenpox [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Ordinary citizens visiting Cheong Wa Dae will be allowed to tour the interior of some facilities of the former presidential office in the heart of Seoul from this week, a government agency said Monday. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said the interior of Yeongbingwan, the state reception hall, and [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The homegrown action comedy “The Roundup” is on course to become a box office hit, luring more than 2 million people on its first weekend, data showed Monday. The sequel to the 2017 hit comedy “The Outlaws” attracted 2.53 million people from Friday-Sunday, bringing its cumulative total to 3.55 [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it had selected four hospitals to participate in an initiative to develop new smart hospital services. The project is aimed at developing and verifying a leading model to improve patient safety and medical service quality by leveraging information and communications technology [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The land ministry on Friday announced its decision to postpone the plan to temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul, citing a lack of preparations. On Thursday, the ministry said it will open part of [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students infected with COVID-19 will be allowed to take school exams beginning this semester, the education ministry said Friday, as new coronavirus cases have been on a steady decline. Students who have contracted the disease will still be prohibited from attending school. But if they [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Scanline VFX, a subsidiary of Netflix, will invest US$100 million in South Korea over the next six years to build special visual effects facilities in a move that will help turn the country into an Asian hub for high-tech content creation, Seoul’s industry ministry said Friday. Stephan Trojansky, the [...]