SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –A study released on Saturday revealed that more than 1 in 10 college students who were victims of childhood bullying went on to attempt suicide in early adulthood, which is more than double the rate of students who did not experience bullying. The study also suggests that the effects of [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s demographic crisis is raising concerns about the survival of small cities, as more than half of the country’s municipal governments recorded less than 1,000 births last year. The declining demand for childcare facilities, including maternity hospitals, daycare centers, elementary schools, and academies, is expected to exacerbate the [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Religious practice in South Korea has hit its lowest point since 1998, according to a survey conducted by the Korean National Association of Christian Pastors (KNACP). The survey, which interviewed 9,182 individuals aged 19 and above between February and November 2022, found that the share that identified themselves as [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) – “The First Slam Dunk” has become the most-viewed animated Japanese film released in South Korea ever, data showed Sunday. The film posted a total of 3.81 million admissions earlier in the day, outnumbering the top-selling animated Japanese film “Your Name.” (2016), which sold 3.8 million tickets, according to the [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Fairness and justice have been pressing concerns in South Korean society for years. More than a decade ago, Michael J. Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard University, rocked the country with his explosive best-seller “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?”– a thought-provoking piece that struck a chord [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Italian luxury brand Gucci will hold a fashion show at a royal place in Seoul in May, about six months after the event was canceled due to the Itaewon crowd crush, the South Korean cultural heritage authority said Tuesday. According to the Cultural Heritage Administration, a department of its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A social media video produced by the South Korean Embassy in India featuring an iconic dance scene from the Indian smash hit film “RRR” has gone viral, having garnered millions of views and even a nod from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 53-second video uploaded Sunday, featuring embassy [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 4 percent of single South Korean women in their 20s and early 30s view marriage and childbirth as essential, a survey showed Sunday, a development that illustrated the chronic decline in childbirths in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Meanwhile, 12.9 percent of single men in the same age bracket agreed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Fossilized eggs of herbivorous dinosaurs have recently been found in South Korea’s southwestern region of Sinan near a site where fossils of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered over a decade ago, a group of scientists said Saturday. It is considered rare for both carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaur egg fossils to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Leeum Museum of Art said Friday it will open a special exhibition featuring extensive works of top-notch white porcelain from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). “Joseon White Porcelain: Paragon of Virtue” will run from Feb. 28 to May 28 at the nation’s largest private gallery run by the Samsung Foundation [...]