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BUSAN, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Thirty years ago, Busan was a place better known for its shipyards and sun-splashed beaches than for cinema. The notion that South Korea’s second-largest city would one day play host to one of Asia’s premier film festivals seemed far-fetched, if not fanciful. But in 1996, a small band of cinephiles [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s reliance on U.S. pharmaceuticals deepened in 2024, with imports topping $1 billion for the first time, government data showed Tuesday. The trend, fueled by surging demand for cancer treatments and rare disease drugs, has stirred warnings about supply vulnerabilities at a time of heightened trade and tariff tensions [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are experiencing relatively high levels of anxiety about aging, particularly over declining health and financial insecurity, with younger adults reporting greater unease than their elders, according to new research released Tuesday. The Hanyang University Institute on Aging surveyed 4,254 adults nationwide last year and developed what it [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one in 10 young South Koreans who rarely leave their homes — so-called “hikikomori” or socially withdrawn youth — reported having contemplated suicide, four times the rate of their peers, according to new government-backed research. The findings, published Tuesday in the Health and Welfare Forum by the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nongshim Co., South Korea’s leading instant noodle maker, said Tuesday it will release a second batch of its popular Shin Ramyun product featuring characters from the global hit animated movie “KPop Demon Hunters” this week. The limited special product, part of a collaboration launched last month, comes in packs [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans in their 40s and 50s are turning to individual Treasury bonds as a preferred tool for retirement planning, according to new data from Mirae Asset Securities, the sole distributor of the instruments. Figures show that 39.3 percent of investors in such bonds over [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one in six foreign graduates who stayed in South Korea after studying have faced workplace difficulties, including conflicts with Korean colleagues or wage disputes, according to a government-funded study released Sunday. The Korea Immigration Service Institute found that 16.4 percent of foreign residents who previously studied in Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A string of attempted child abductions in recent weeks has triggered a surge in demand for self-defense products among South Korean parents, with online marketplaces reporting sharp increases in sales. According to e-commerce platform 11st, purchases of key personal safety items between September 2 and 11 jumped 2.5 times compared [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — When Netflix’s animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters premiered earlier this year, few predicted that a fictional boy band would ignite a cultural wave stretching from Seoul to New York. Yet the Saja Boys — a group of grim-reaper–inspired idols who appear in the film — have quickly leapt from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Korea announced its latest housing policy this month, officials were not only grappling with soaring property prices and supply shortages in the Seoul metropolitan area. They were also contending with a tiny, nocturnal amphibian with outsized influence: the Mongkoi. The Mongkoi (also known as narrow-mouth frog), listed [...]