SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants has set a new season high with a nine-game hitting streak. Lee batted 1-for-4 in the Giants’ 8-1 loss to the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego on Wednesday (local time). Batting sixth, Lee got his lone hit of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — After squeezing into the exclusive-field Tour Championship for the seventh straight season, PGA Tour veteran Im Sung-jae said he is proud of having kept his streak alive. Im will be the only South Korean among the 30 players who have qualified for the Tour Championship, the final event of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The runaway success of KPop Demon Hunters, a U.S. animated film released on Netflix in June, is driving a sharp rise in global curiosity about South Korea, with ripple effects expected across food, cosmetics and tourism. Google search data show that worldwide queries for “Korea” reached their highest level [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming Disney+ Korean original series “Tempest” is arguably one of the most anticipated projects among the streaming service’s Korean offerings for the year. At a press event on Wednesday to discuss the creative production behind the new series, Carol Choi, executive vice president of content strategy in Disney’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Manchester United star Jesse Lingard has earned his first Player of the Month award in the top South Korean league. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) announced Tuesday that Lingard, midfielder and captain for FC Seoul, held off three candidates for the Player of the Month honor [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — No book has ever inspired director Park Chan-wook’s desire to create a film adaptation more strongly than Donald E. Westlake’s “The Ax.” At a press conference in Seoul on Tuesday, the acclaimed director affirmed once again what it meant to bring the book to the big screen — a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2025 regular season in South Korean baseball is set to end Sept. 30. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) released the schedule for makeup games Tuesday. A total of 53 games, including those that were rained out over the course of the summer, will be played between Sept. 1 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Webtoon is bringing the aesthetics of short-form video to digital comics, testing a new feature that turns webtoons into five-minute video episodes on its English-language platform. The company said Monday it had introduced the “video episode” function in beta, adding animation, sound effects, background music, and voice acting [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming Netflix original series “Aema” is actually 20 years in the making, director Lee Hae-young said, a project he said has evolved significantly over time to find its final form. Inspired by the sensational 1982 hit film “Madame Aema,” the six-episode series explores the vibrant and tumultuous world [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Badminton star An Se-young said Monday she will try to add to her fond memories of winning tournaments in France when she goes for her second straight world title in Paris later this month. An, world No. 1, will be the defending champion in the women’s singles when the [...]