SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In the week following Han Kang’s historic Nobel Prize in Literature win, South Korean bookstores reported a remarkable 40% increase in sales, with older readers leading the buying surge. According to data analyzed by BC Card, major bookstore chains, both online and offline including Kyobo Book Centre, saw their sales [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Kang Jung-ai, has penned a letter of gratitude to RM, the leader of K-pop group BTS, acknowledging his recent 100 million won donation to the veterans’ welfare fund while serving his mandatory military service. The ministry released the contents of Kang’s letter [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In Seoul’s wealthy neighborhoods known for their intense focus on private education, investigations into school violence are facing significant delays, according to government data released on October 24. A report submitted to the National Assembly’s Education Committee reveals that school districts serving affluent areas of Seoul are failing to meet [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk Yeol and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, condemned North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia and agreed to strengthen security and defense industry cooperation during their summit Thursday. Yoon and Duda voiced concerns over the growing military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow after South Korea and the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has discovered an illicit trade of prescription ADHD medications through social media platforms, raising concerns about drug abuse among students. In a joint operation with police conducted from July to September, the NIS identified 37 chat rooms on Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) dedicated [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Rapper-singer Jessi, accused of neglecting a fan while he was being assaulted by someone accompanying her, has apologized to the victim and his family. “I would like to express my apology to the victim and his family who suffered damage due to this incident,” the Korean American artist said [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is building unidentified structures on an eastern inter-Korean road that it blew up last week, a source said Thursday, amid heightened cross-border tensions over the North’s border activities. Last Tuesday, North Korea blew up sections of the eastern Donghae Line and the western Gyeongui Line, just north [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean balloon carrying propaganda leaflets landed in the presidential compound in Seoul on Thursday, the presidential office said, hours after North Korea launched balloons across the border as part of a resumed campaign against the South. The South Korean military said earlier that North Korea launched more [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The health ministry said Thursday it has selected eight institutions to launch a program in which general hospitals will focus more on treating critical patients while referring those with mild symptoms to local hospitals. Through the program, the government aims to have critically ill cases take up 70 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday issued an additional suspended prison sentence for former professional baseball player Oh Jae-won on charges of receiving methylamphetamine from his acquaintance. Oh was indicted in May for receiving some 0.2 grams of methylamphetamine from his acquaintance in November last year. It was in addition [...]