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SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea missing their injured captain Son Heung-min for a key World Cup qualifying match against Jordan in Amman Thursday, one of his closest friends on the national team raised his game a notch. He had support from a couple of youngsters, too. South Korea beat Jordan 2-0 [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned Korean American author Min Jin Lee on Thursday congratulated South Korean author Han Kang on her historic win of the Nobel Prize in literature this week, saying Han deserves “this global recognition.” The Swedish Academy announced Han as this year’s laureate, recognizing the 53-year-old “for her intense poetic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Following South Korean novelist Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win, the publishing house associated with her English translator has hailed the achievement as “a huge win for translated fiction.” Tilted Axis Press, co-founded by Deborah Smith, one of Han Kang’s translators, took to social media to express its jubilation on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK made her highly anticipated solo comeback with the release of her new single “Mantra” on Friday. The digital single and its accompanying music video were unveiled at 9 a.m., according to her agency, OA Entertainment. It said “Mantra” is a powerful and energetic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a ticket to the next round in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason at stake, a pair of homegrown right-handers will square off in a rematch Friday evening. In Game 5 of the best-of-five first round, the home team LG Twins will start Im Chan-kyu at Jamsil Baseball [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – NewJeans’ Hanni has said she will appear at a parliamentary labor committee meeting next week to talk about workplace bullying, after she claimed she was being ostracized in her management company. Last week, the parliamentary labor and environment committee asked Hanni and her management firm ADOR’s CEO Kim Ju-young [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of deaths and hospitalizations resulting from unexpected serious adverse reactions during clinical trials in South Korea has increased significantly over the past five years, according to data released by the country’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Representative Seo Mi-hwa of the Democratic Party, a member of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A loss away from having their 2024 season ended, the KT Wiz shuffled their lineup deck once again Wednesday against the LG Twins. The Wiz are down 2-1 in the best-of-five opening round of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason, following a 6-5 loss at KT Wiz Park in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After homering off LG Twins closer You Young-chan in a Korea Baseball Organization postseason game Tuesday night, KT Wiz center fielder Bae Jung-dae had mixed feelings about the moment. Bae was obviously excited that his two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth inning cut his team’s deficit to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A Buddhist temple stay program aimed at single adults in their 40s has resulted in four new couples, marking a successful debut for this age-specific iteration of what has become a popular matchmaking initiative. The event, held on October 5 and 6 at Hwagye Temple in Seoul’s Gangbuk district, attracted significant [...]