SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent global survey has revealed that four out of 10 South Koreans have difficulty maintaining quality sleep at least three times a week, with stress identified as the leading cause of sleep deprivation. ResMed, a global sleep solutions provider, released the findings of its fifth annual Global Sleep Health [...]
BERLIN, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A girl statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery will be installed at a church in Germany next week, two years after it was removed from the nearby University of Kassel, where it was first erected, a civic organization said Saturday. The statue will be installed at the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean content has maintained its position as the most-watched non-English programming on Netflix for two consecutive years, according to the company’s latest viewership report released on Thursday. In the second half of 2024, Netflix recorded a total of approximately 94 billion viewing hours, reflecting a 5% increase from the same [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A new fleece sweater, combining practicality with style, has emerged as the most popular military-issued item among soldiers just one year after its introduction to South Korean troops. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Defense Daily from January 17 to 31, polling 535 soldiers about their favorite military-issued items, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety issued guidelines on February 25 for the safe use of cosmetics among youth, responding to a trend of increasingly younger children beginning to use makeup products. A survey conducted by the ministry from May to November last year revealed that 11% of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A viral parody video satirizing the education-focused lifestyle of affluent mothers in Seoul’s Daechi-dong has led to a sudden surge in secondhand sales of Moncler luxury down jackets. The video, featuring popular comedian Lee Su-ji portraying a character known as “Jamie’s mom,” humorously captures the excessive parenting styles associated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop garnered the most attention among globally popular South Korean cultural content in Asia, Europe and Latin America, while people in North America, Africa and Oceania showed greater interest in Korean food, according to a government report released Tuesday. The annual report was jointly published by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean artist Ayoung Kim has been named the winner of this year’s LG Guggenheim Award for her innovative work at the intersection of art and technology, LG Group said Tuesday. Launched in 2023 through a partnership between LG Group and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the LG [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ average satisfaction with life decreased for the first time in four years in 2023, ranking 33rd out of the 38 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a government report showed Monday. The level of life satisfaction came to 6.4 points in 2023 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced Monday the four finalists for the 2025 Korea Artist Award. The finalists are Kim Young-eun, who explores sound as a medium shaped by political and historical contexts; Kim Ji-pyeong, who critiques traditional perspectives in oriental brush-and-ink paintings; Im Young-zoo, [...]