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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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is facing renewed public outrage over its drunk-driving laws after a series of fatal crashes — including the recent death of a Japanese tourist in Seoul — reignited anger over what many view as lenient punishments for offenders. The debate intensified after a Japanese user on the social [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As major universities grapple with cheating scandals linked to artificial intelligence, concerns are now spreading to the very start of the country’s education system: elementary schools, where students are increasingly outsourcing thinking and assignments to AI tools. Teachers in Seoul report that upper-grade students now instinctively turn to AI [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s medical community is escalating its confrontation with the Lee Jae-myung administration and the National Assembly over a set of health-care policy proposals that physicians argue threaten patient safety and undermine established medical standards. At the center of the dispute are three initiatives: mandatory ingredient-based prescriptions, stricter oversight of [...]