SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will host a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of independence hero Kim Koo, after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the anniversary as the year of celebrations. This year marks the 150th birth anniversary of Kim [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Romance dominated the global short-form drama market last year, with viewers most often tuning in late at night, according to viewing data released by the short-drama platform Vigloo. An analysis of viewing patterns from January through December 2025 found that users worldwide watched more than five million hours of short [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly turning to video platforms rather than internet portals to consume news, signaling a broader shift from text-based journalism to visual formats, according to a new nationwide survey released on Monday. The findings, published in the Korea Press Foundation’s 2025 Media Audience Survey, show that the share [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Defense Ministry is weighing an unconventional idea to confront two converging national challenges: a shrinking pool of young recruits and a growing cohort of unemployed older men. Officials are considering employing men in their 50s and 60s as border and security personnel, a proposal that has drawn both [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at smaller companies in South Korea are significantly less satisfied with their jobs and more likely to experience violations of labor laws than those at larger firms, according to a new survey released on Sunday by the civic group Workplace Bullying 119. The survey, conducted by Global Research between [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s demographic shift toward an aging and increasingly solitary population accelerated in 2025, with people aged 65 and older now accounting for more than one-fifth of the country’s registered residents, government data showed, underscoring mounting social and economic challenges for the nation. According to an annual population analysis released [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean families are spending far more on private education than they did a decade ago, underscoring how deeply supplemental tutoring has become embedded in the country’s competitive education system. Household spending on private education — including hagwons, or for-profit after-school academies — reached nearly 29.2 trillion won ($20.2 billion) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A quirky phrase commonly used in South Korea to describe someone’s peak years or bygone glory has its roots in an English football transfer — a linguistic journey that recently drew the attention of the BBC. The expression, “Leeds days,” is now widely used in Korean to refer to a [...]
SEOUL & DAEJEON, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Pope Leo XIV has sent a rare message of congratulations to Seongsimdang (or Sungsimdang), a beloved bakery in the central city of Daejeon, praising its seven decades of business rooted in social solidarity and care for the poor. According to local reports, the message was delivered through Cardinal [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Characters from the animated film K‑Pop Demon Hunters are drawing online attention that rivals — and in some cases surpasses — that of real-world global pop stars, underscoring the growing power of virtual idols in the social media age. According to an analysis cited by The Guardian, data from marketing [...]