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SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is maintaining the highest level of vigilance as more confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF) have raised concerns that the deadly animal disease may spread across the country despite all-out disinfection efforts. The agriculture ministry on Monday confirmed one more ASF case, raising the number of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — After a work by late Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki set an auction record last year, another major dot painting by him will be put up for auction in Hong Kong in November, an auction house said Monday. One of Kim’s major works, “05-IV-71 #200,” titled “Universe,” will be [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sensational K-pop girl band TWICE dropped Monday its eighth EP, “Feel Special,” without one of its three Japanese members. The member, Mina, has been on temporary leave since July as she has been suffering an anxiety disorder. “Mina took part in the production of the new album. But she [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run tourism agency said Monday it has attracted a 3,000-strong incentive travel group from a Chinese healthcare marketing company. The employees of Guangzhou Yanruyu Medical Technology began a five-day trip to Seoul, Incheon and Gangwon Province on the day, according to the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The blockbuster TV fantasy series “Arthdal Chronicles” will likely come back with a second season despite its lower-than-expected viewership, its broadcaster tvN said Monday. “We’re positively considering making a second season,” an official from tvN said. “The decision has not been finalized yet, but the possibility is high.” Details [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT giant Kakao Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, has recently taken over two local movie studios to make inroads into the filmmaking industry. Last week, Kakao M Corp., an entertainment unit of Kakao, said that it has secured a majority share in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Three in ten people sent to emergency rooms after a failed suicide attempt were in their 20’s, while 36 percent of all those who attempted suicide said that it was not their first attempt. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 1,500 adults who had visited [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than nine out of 10 people who took their own lives showed warning signs before their deaths, but most people around did not take note of them. The Ministry of Health and Welfare released a report Sunday based on a meeting with 121 bereaved family members of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan OneAsia Festival (BOF), a major annual K-pop concert in the second-biggest South Korean city of Busan, will kick off next month with a star-studded lineup. The BOF 2019 will run from Oct. 19-25 at the outdoor stage of Busan’s Hwamyung Park, Haeundae Beach and Busan Cinema Center [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of this year’s state-led annual wintertime shopping festival aimed at attracting foreign tourists to Korea jumped nearly 40 percent to reach the milestone of 1 trillion won (US$839 million), data showed Monday. Sales from the Korea Grand Sale 2019 came to 1.25 trillion won, compared with 900.7 billion [...]