SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A major cheating scandal has erupted at Yonsei University after evidence surfaced that a large number of students used ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools during an online midterm exam, prompting the professor to threaten disciplinary action. The professor of “Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ChatGPT,” a third-year course [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Government officials discussed Friday ways to supply public housing in the greater Seoul area through the use of idle state-owned land in order to meet the growing need for new homes in the capital region, according to the finance ministry. The meeting, attended by officials from relevant ministries and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Culture Minister Chae Hwi-young on Friday visited Jongmyo Shrine in central Seoul with the head of the nation’s heritage agency and vowed to “take every possible measure,” including revising laws, to prevent high-rise buildings from being built directly across from the shrine. The visit came a day after the Supreme [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A controversy over overwork has erupted in South Korea after the death of a young employee at the popular bakery chain London Bagel Museum (known locally as Runbaemyu), with the victim’s family alleging that he worked excessive hours in the weeks leading up to his death. According to the family, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Xiaomi announced Tuesday that it will launch a special discount event for its flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, after Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the device to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during their recent summit. Xiaomi Korea said it was “honored” that one of its latest flagship models [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s experiment with “no-scooter zones” has drawn strong public support, with a majority of residents reporting safer and more comfortable pedestrian environments, city officials said Monday. The pilot program, the first of its kind in South Korea, was launched in May along two busy stretches: the 1.3-kilometer Red Road [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The top generals of South Korea and the United States met in Seoul on Monday to discuss a question that has haunted the alliance for decades: when, and under what conditions, South Korea will regain control of its own forces in wartime. General Jin Yong-sung, chairman of South Korea’s Joint [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — On Friday evening, October 31, movie theaters across Seoul’s CGV Yongsan I’Park Mall glowed with a sea of colorful light sticks—once a symbol of concert fandom, now a growing part of Korea’s cinema culture. At a special screening of Netflix’s animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters, fans—both adults and children—waved [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Museum of Korea has reached a historic milestone this year, surpassing 5 million visitors for the first time — and setting a new record in cultural merchandise sales along the way. According to the National Museum Foundation on Friday, sales of its signature product line, MU:DS, totaled [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Nvidia Corp. said on Friday that it plans to deploy up to 260,000 of its latest graphics processing units, or GPUs, across South Korea in partnership with the government and several of the country’s largest conglomerates — a sweeping initiative aimed at turning the nation into one of the world’s [...]