SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — EXO member D.O.’s second mini album, “Expectation,” has topped iTunes Top Albums charts in 42 regions on the first day of its release, SM Entertainment said Tuesday. Released Monday, the album also stayed on top of the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart as well as South Korea’s Hanteo Chart. “Expectation” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – After a first love doesn’t work out, men and women often respond differently. Many men experience significant emotional setbacks, like dropping out of school or enlisting in the military. In contrast, women typically recover from these setbacks more quickly than men. You might have heard the saying that men tend [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gaya Tumuli, which consists of seven tomb clusters dating back to Korea’s ancient Gaya confederacy, will be added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The decision was made during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Riyadh on Sunday (Saudi local time). The committee said the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The debut solo album by V, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, has set the biggest first-week sales record for an album by a K-pop soloist with 2.1 million copies sold, data showed Friday. According to the data from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of physical album sales, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — In September 2021, the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, located in Mapo, Seoul, was quietly engaged in fundraising efforts. An anonymous benefactor generously contributed 100 million won, specifying that the funds be used for the preservation and restoration of cultural assets abroad. The name of the benefactor, however, remained undisclosed. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) —A recent study has revealed that some workers, despite not experiencing depression, have contemplated ending their own lives, and this tendency is often associated with receiving inadequate compensation. In 2023, a team of researchers at the Corporate Mental Health Research Center of Kangbuk Samsung Medical Center in South Korea conducted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) —An examination of how much tap water people use in Seoul on a typical day indicates that individuals who live alone use the most water. These findings were made public by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday. Researchers studied the water usage habits of 510,000 households and 1.23 million people [...]
Woowa Brothers identified ‘Mala Rosé’-related foods as those that marked a sharp increase in order volume. (image courtesy of Woowa Brothers) SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The delivery food that garnered the most attention from consumers in the first half of this year turned out to be tanghulu. Tanghulu, a traditional Chinese snack, consists of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul is gaining prominence as a creation stage for ‘K-content,’ with an increasing number of movies and TV shows choosing the city as their backdrop. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Tuesday that the number of feature-length and short films, as well as TV dramas seeking support for filming in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of the regions in South Korea are facing the risk of losing population completely, data showed Tuesday, amid the country’s critically low birth rate. Of South Korea’s 228 administrative districts, 118, or 51.8 percent, saw the population risk index fall below 0.5 as of February, according [...]