SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — What started as a humble national art museum with a four-person staff in the backyard of the Gyeongbok royal palace in central Seoul in 1969 has grown into arguably the biggest art space in Asia half a century later. Now in possession of more than 8,000 art pieces, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 South Koreans are in favor of the mandatory use of real names in posting comments on the internet, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll of 502 adults nationwide conducted Tuesday by pollster Realmeter found that 69.5 percent support the use of real names in [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II will be installed in Virginia, near Washington, this week, organizers said Tuesday. The bronze statue of a girl was brought to Washington nearly three years ago in November 2016, but was stored at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Korea’s biggest annual art show, the Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), was on its course at the COEX convention center in southern Seoul on Sept. 26, a tall young man came to the venue, his face shaded under a cap. He turned to the show’s booth allotted [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Many films worldwide continue to express womanhood in a stereotypical manner, a recent study has showed. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Monday that 40 movies from Hollywood and South Korea screened between 2017 and 2018 depicted women to be [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean museum said Monday it will open an exhibition in Seoul this week that displays original calligraphical works by a renowned Buddhist monk from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The monk is widely praised for his diplomacy with Japan following the neighboring country’s 16th century invasion of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing boycott movement against Japanese products is the largest of its kind in South Korean history, led by highly motivated groups of voluntary participants. eMFORCE, a South Korean digital marketing firm, reported on Sunday that the word ‘boycott’ appeared 1.18 million times on social networks this year, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced Saturday that it will create guidelines to improve the gender wage gap. In the future, the city will reorganize the gender equality wage implementation guidelines of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family to suit the city and develop self-diagnosis tables that can [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to put a ceiling on the number of movie screens allotted for a single film in a bid to prevent a screen monopoly by big-budget blockbusters, the culture ministry said Monday. “The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will seek a revision of the ‘Promotion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In the summer of 1908, a 37-year-old Hungarian got on a train that crossed the Hangang Railroad Bridge and arrived at Namdaemun Station. The plaza in front of the station was brimming with morning energy. Gentlemen were dressed in white, while women wearing pale-green veils and Japanese people in [...]