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SADO ISLAND, Japan/SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea held a memorial ceremony in Japan on Friday to honor Koreans forced into labor at a gold and silver mine complex during World War II, the second year it has held its own event apart from Japan’s official ceremony. Seoul decided to not attend this [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean civic organization campaigning to correct distorted world maps has received its first formal endorsement from an international body, marking a significant milestone in its effort to address long-standing misrepresentations of Africa’s size. VANK, a digital diplomacy group, said on Nov. 20 that the Statistical, Economic and Social Research [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – One in five married women with children experienced career interruptions this year, government data showed Thursday, marking the lowest level largely due to change in social perception and improved work–life balance policies. The number of married women aged 15 to 54 living with children under the age of 18 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Olive Young Corp., the retail unit of South Korea’s food-to-cosmetics conglomerate CJ Group, said Thursday it has partnered with Life Healthcare Group (LHG), a major health care company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to sell Korean beauty products in the Middle Eastern nation. Under the memorandum of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – An advisory committee of the Korea Heritage Service (KHS) expressed strong concerns on Thursday over the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s plan to build high-rise buildings near the historic Jongmyo Shrine. The Cultural Heritage Committee under the KHS criticized the city’s development plan for the Sewun 4 District, located across from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Once a nostalgic winter street snack sold from roadside carts, bungeoppang — Korea’s fish-shaped pastry filled traditionally with sweet red bean — is fast becoming a breakout product in the global bakery market, buoyed by advances in frozen food technology and the worldwide rise of Korean pop culture. According to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s top women golfers will return next year to Haenam, a coastal town at South Korea’s southernmost tip, as the LPGA Tour unveiled its 2026 schedule with a record-setting prize pool. The LPGA announced on Nov. 20 (Korea time) that the BMW Ladies Championship will once again be held [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Korean newlyweds are delaying official marriage registration to avoid financial penalties tied to the country’s housing and loan system, a trend that Japanese media say reflects shifting social norms amid an unrelenting real estate crisis. Japan’s Nikkei reported on Nov. 16 that roughly 20 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A brief moment in last week’s friendly match between South Korea and Bolivia has become an unlikely symbol of sportsmanship and selfless instinct, drawing praise at home and abroad and prompting a wider reflection on human altruism. During the Nov. 14 match at Daejeon World Cup Stadium, Bolivia’s goalkeeper [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s men’s national soccer team secured a narrow 1–0 win over a depleted Ghana side in Seoul on Tuesday, but the labored victory has intensified concerns about the team’s form less than seven months before the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Despite the result, the performance was widely described as [...]