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SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean animal welfare activists said Thursday they will petition the Constitutional Court next month against the government for not curbing dog meat consumption and slaughterhouses. Members of KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) and the PNR (People for Non-human Rights) said in a news conference the government has infringed [...]
SUWON, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Belgian Shepherd dog that received body detection training at a local pet training center showed outstanding performance in finding missing persons. The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency designated Jesper, and her owner Roh Il-ho as Honorary Neighborhood Police Officers. Roh has been running a pet training center in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elderly people who die prematurely due to the influence of ultrafine dust, or PM 2.5, is expected to surge in the coming years. According to a policy report released Wednesday by the Seoul Institute, the number of people aged 65 or older who die early due [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a new trend dubbed ‘con-premium,’ a compound word of ‘convenience’ and ‘premium’, the outsourcing of household chores is being highlighted. Hyundai Card, a leading credit card issuer in South Korea, compiled purchasing data at 20 stores offering home services over the past three years, and the number of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Eun-hee, an office worker living in Seoul, subscribes to the YouTube channel of South Korean golfer Ko Jin-young, the 2018 Rookie of the Year and the current World No. 1 in the LPGA tour. “Ko Jin Young Ko Jin Young Ko,” the player’s YouTube channel, shows the professional [...]
PARIS, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Globally acclaimed superstars BTS and other high-flying K-pop stars will not be exempted from mandatory military service under the government’s new guidelines on conscription waivers, the culture minister has said. Since early this year, a government task force has been working to revamp the guidelines to raise fairness in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Pengsoo, a penguin character from the education broadcasting company EBS is being wooed by the food industry for marketing. Binggrae Co., a major dairy maker, recently met with EBS to discuss a potential marketing program with Pengsoo in the lead. Binggrae held a competition last month to select the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last five years, the vast majority of the babies abandoned in baby boxes were found to have been sent to so-called ‘protection facilities’. The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea (BAI) reported on Tuesday that between 2014 and 2018, 929 baby orphans out of 962 (96.6 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest K-pop label, SM Entertainment, will host the Asian leg of a globally renowned multi-continental charity concert by the poverty reduction movement Global Citizen next year, SM said Wednesday. SM’s founder and chief producer Lee Soo-man and other SM officials secured the deal with Simon Moss, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Whenever she visits her hometown of Ulaanbaatar on the vast Mongolian steppe, Seoul-resident Jadambaa Nasanjargal makes a point of returning with children’s books written in her native language. At home, she reads the traditional folktales to her daughter, translating into Korean as necessary, to introduce her 7-year-old to the [...]