SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver’s livestreaming platform Chzzk has permanently suspended the channel of a 12-year-old elementary school “Vtuber,” citing a violation of its rule barring anyone under 14 from joining. The decision has reignited debate over child safety and regulation in the fast-growing world of virtual broadcasting. The girl, born in 2013, [...]
SEONGNAM, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Webtoon has launched a new short-form animation service, “Cuts,” marking its first foray into building a platform for entirely new content rather than simply expanding its vast library of webtoon intellectual property. Speaking at Naver’s Green Factory headquarters in Seongnam, south of Seoul, Kim Hyo-jung, the company’s chief [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — When a popular YouTube commentator recently began selling a “990 won salt bread,” it was more than a marketing stunt. It was a pointed jab at what Koreans have come to call “breadflation,” a steep rise in bread prices that many believe has made the staple disproportionately expensive at home compared [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has canceled the government’s plan to build a new airport on the ecologically sensitive Saemangeum tidal flats, a ruling hailed by environmental groups as a rare legal victory for conservation. The Seoul Administrative Court on Thursday sided with a coalition of 1,308 citizen plaintiffs who [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — On a spring evening in 1964, an 18-year-old farm girl fought back against a man who tried to assault her in a desolate field near her home. She was small, he was strong, and escape seemed impossible. Desperate, she did the only thing she could: when he forced a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is poised to legalize tattooing by non-medical practitioners for the first time in more than three decades, after a legislative committee approved a bill that would formally recognize tattoo artists as licensed professionals. The Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly passed the so-called Tattooist Act on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new government-commissioned study has found that nearly four in ten South Korean adolescents view e-cigarettes as either a substitute for conventional cigarettes or a tool to quit smoking, underscoring the growing influence of targeted marketing campaigns by tobacco companies. The report, released Tuesday by Sahmyook University at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s young adults remain the most highly educated in the developed world, according to new data released Tuesday, but the wage premium for advanced degrees is growing even as public spending on higher education lags international peers. The OECD Education at a Glance 2025 report showed that 70.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — At a time when glowing screens compete for nearly every spare moment of attention, most South Korean adults still reached for a traditional paper book last year. A new nationwide survey finds that four out of five adults in the country — 80.4 percent — read at least one [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s human rights watchdog has ruled that public libraries violated children’s right to information by restricting access to sex education and gender equality books that were not legally classified as harmful publications. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said Monday that several libraries had either removed such titles [...]