SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With soaring consumer prices, a growing number of Koreans are scrambling to save even the smallest coins. On Thursday at noon, the Seoul Museum of Art square slowly began to be filled with people. After 20 minutes, some 200 people filled up the 800-square-meter plaza. A fintech service provider [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s subway lines are gaining popularity as a filming location for movies and TV dramas. Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in the capital, said that the subway was used as a filming location 216 times last year, up from 66 times in 2020 and 86 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Social media advertising, in general, targets young people, but older consumers are more likely to make purchases after being exposed to social media advertisements, a report showed Sunday. The report, which was published in the Journal of the Korea Contents Association, analyzed the results of a survey that the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has reported the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in 33 weeks for any Sunday amid a gradual decline in virus infections in the country. A total of 10,274 additional cases, including 23 from overseas, were confirmed Sunday, bringing the total caseload to 30,429,571, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell below 11,000 on Saturday amid a gradual slowdown in new infections. The country reported 10,718 new cases, including 26 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,419,297, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. It marked a decline from the 11,436 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The rapid growth of South Korea’s food delivery market during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp increase in delivery fees, leaving small business owners and consumers struggling to cope with the added costs. As the demand for food delivery services has surged in recent years, delivery companies have [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell below 12,000 on Friday, continuing a marked on-week decline amid a gradual virus downtrend. The country reported 11,436 new infection cases, including 24 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,408,656, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. It was a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A typical day for 66-year-old Hwang Se-ja begins with riding a city train from her house in the small town of Yangpyeong, 45 kilometers outside of Seoul, to her daughter’s house in the capital city’s downtown to babysit her young grandchildren during the day. The 80-minute trip — which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — About 3 out of 10 police officers who were brought to court after being investigated by prosecutors were indicted for drunk driving, data showed Thursday. The number of cases where police officers were indicated after going through a prosecutorial investigation totaled 1,141 in the five years from 2018 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments are competing to attract more people returning to farming and rural areas as part of efforts to address their population crisis. The South Chungcheong provincial government recently decided to set up a large smart farm complex by investing 43.6 billion won (US$33.7 million) by 2025 on reclaimed [...]