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SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Louis Vuitton unveiled its first-ever beauty line, La Beauté Louis Vuitton, in Seoul on Friday, marking the global debut of the French luxury house’s long-awaited entry into cosmetics. The collection, comprising 55 shades of lipstick, 10 tinted balms and four eye shadow palettes, was presented at a pop-up store [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band Stray Kids set a record with its latest release, “Karma,” which posted the highest first-week sales of any K-pop album this year, the group’s agency said Friday. JYP Entertainment said the group’s fourth full-length album, released on Monday, sold 3.03 million copies in its first week, citing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean capital is set to transform its skyline into a canvas of light and art this week, as the city launches Seoul Light DDP 2025 Autumn, an immersive media art festival at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). Running from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, the event will project [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s dermatology clinics have emerged as the country’s leading draw for foreign medical tourists, with patient numbers skyrocketing more than 100-fold over the past decade and a half. According to a report released Thursday by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 705,044 foreign patients received dermatological treatment in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s police are intensifying efforts to combat a surge in voice phishing scams, which authorities now describe as a “social disaster” threatening every generation. The National Police Agency on Thursday unveiled five public service videos on YouTube — including one in which a senior police official receives a [...]
JEONGSEON, South Korea, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is facing mounting pressure to overhaul its casino regulations as competition intensifies across Asia, with Japan preparing to open its first integrated resort in Osaka by 2030. Industry leaders and academics at a two-day forum (August 27~28) in Osaka warned that South Korea’s restrictive framework [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is set to hold an exhibition dedicated to artworks of the four finalists for the 2025 Korea Artist Award. This year’s finalists are Kim Young-eun, who uses sound to explore how politics and history affect what people hear; Kim Ji-pyeong, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – San Francisco Giants outfielder Lee Jung-hoo has become the second Korean player ever to hit 30 doubles in a single Major League Baseball season, following Choo Shin-soo. The 27-year-old Lee reached the milestone Wednesday (U.S. time) with a double in the Giants’ 12-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a decade after the suicide of three impoverished women in Seoul’s Songpa District shocked the nation and exposed deep flaws in the welfare system, South Korea’s government has unveiled its most ambitious blueprint yet to build what it calls a “zero poverty society.” The Lee Jae-myung administration [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliament has passed a law banning the use of smartphones during class time in elementary, middle and high schools, in an effort to curb youth overdependence on digital devices — though critics argue the measure could prove largely symbolic and even restrictive of students’ rights. The amendment [...]