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New Public Database to Expose Financial Ties Between Doctors and Pharma Firms

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) on Monday launched a new centralized platform designed to bring unprecedented transparency to financial interactions between pharmaceutical and medical device companies and healthcare professionals. The “Expense Report Management System,” formally opening Nov. 17, is the country’s first unified public database allowing [...]

Soft Power to Hard Numbers: K-Consumer Goods Record Explosive Growth

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer goods exports—long considered a supporting player to the country’s heavyweight industries—are rapidly emerging as a new growth engine, fueled by the global spread of Hallyu and the runaway popularity of titles like the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. Government data show that exports of K-food, K-beauty, and [...]

Winter Arrives Abruptly, Sending Seoul Into Its First Sub-Zero Morning

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul awoke Tuesday to the kind of cold that seems to arrive all at once, reshaping the edges of the city overnight. By dawn, the capital had slipped decisively into winter: a sharp sub-zero chill, the first of the season, settling over streets and riverbanks. According to the Korea Meteorological [...]

Endangered Amazon Parrot Found at Seoul Café After Drinking Customer’s Coffee

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — By mid-afternoon on a gray November day in Seoul, the Yeongdeungpo Police Station received the kind of call that sounds like a prank until an officer has to write it down: A parrot is drinking my coffee. When officers arrived at the small neighborhood café in Yangpyeong-dong, they found the [...]

Employment Gap Widens as College-Educated Youth Drive Surge in Long-Term Unemployment

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long-term unemployment has climbed to its highest level in four years, driven largely by a surge in jobless young adults with university degrees, according to new government data released Sunday. The number of people who searched for work for more than six months but failed to secure a [...]

Fathers Cite Work Fatigue, Stress as Biggest Barriers to Hands-On Parenting

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean fathers envision themselves as warm, engaged, “friend-like” parents before having children. But once parenting begins, most find themselves becoming something very different: busy, tired, and time-starved. A new survey released Sunday by the Korea Population, Health and Welfare Association, KoPHWA) shows a wide gap between the fathers [...]

Retailers Turn to Character IP as Competition for Differentiation Intensifies

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are increasingly turning to character-based intellectual property to differentiate products and drive sales, with convenience stores and department stores intensifying competition through collaborations with popular global and domestic characters. According to industry data released Friday, convenience stores saw sharp sales gains during this year’s Pepero Day shopping [...]

Culture Minister Vows to Block High-Rise Project Threatening Jongmyo Shrine

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Culture Minister Chae Hwi-young has said the government will deploy every measure permitted under law to block plans for ultra-high-rise buildings facing Jongmyo Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site in central Seoul. The project has drawn controversy because Jongmyo, a 14th-century royal ancestral shrine from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), [...]

Seoul Halts Portions of Hangang Bus Service After Grounding Incident Sparks Safety Outcry

SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul partially suspended operations of its new Hangang bus service on Sunday after a vessel ran aground near Jamsil Pier, prompting the rescue of more than 80 passengers and intensifying political scrutiny over the project’s safety record. The accident occurred at around 8:24 p.m. Saturday, when a river bus [...]

Korea Sees Uptick in Pregnancy Support Requests, Fueling Hopes of a Modest Baby Boom

SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Applications for vouchers provided to pregnant women increased 8.1 percent from a year earlier in the first nine months of this year, data showed Sunday, in a possible sign of a continued rebound in the number of newborns in a country facing one of the world’s lowest birth rates. [...]