SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Romance dominated the global short-form drama market last year, with viewers most often tuning in late at night, according to viewing data released by the short-drama platform Vigloo. An analysis of viewing patterns from January through December 2025 found that users worldwide watched more than five million hours of short [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long-running legal battle against tobacco companies is drawing renewed attention as new research shows that smoking has imposed an enormous and growing burden on the national health insurance system. According to a study released Monday by the National Health Insurance Service’s research arm, smoking-related medical costs totaled an [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a modular “organ-on-a-chip” system that can precisely replicate how drug-induced muscle damage leads to kidney injury, offering a new platform for predicting harmful side effects before medicines reach patients. The bio-microfluidic device recreates key aspects of the human [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow foreign aquaculture technicians to work across a broader range of farmed species starting this year, as the government moves to ease chronic labor shortages in the country’s aging fisheries sector. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Ministry of Justice said Monday that the scope [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly turning to video platforms rather than internet portals to consume news, signaling a broader shift from text-based journalism to visual formats, according to a new nationwide survey released on Monday. The findings, published in the Korea Press Foundation’s 2025 Media Audience Survey, show that the share [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics unveiled an ultra-slim, wireless “wallpaper” OLED television ahead of CES 2026, intensifying competition in the global premium TV market with a design that pushes both form and technology to new extremes. At a media preview event in Las Vegas on Sunday, the company introduced the LG OLED evo [...]
LAS VEGAS & SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics on Sunday unveiled a 130-inch Micro RGB television, its largest and most advanced display to date, ahead of the opening of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, underscoring the company’s push to redefine the ultra-premium TV market through next-generation display and artificial intelligence technologies. The new [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Defense Ministry is weighing an unconventional idea to confront two converging national challenges: a shrinking pool of young recruits and a growing cohort of unemployed older men. Officials are considering employing men in their 50s and 60s as border and security personnel, a proposal that has drawn both [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s most familiar fish may soon become a luxury item. Mackerel, a staple of the Korean diet, is facing mounting supply pressures as climate change shrinks domestic catches and Norway — the country’s dominant foreign supplier — moves to sharply cut its harvest. The combined squeeze is already pushing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is on the brink of posting its strongest quarterly operating profit ever, buoyed by a historic surge in memory chip prices and a revival in high-bandwidth memory used for artificial intelligence, analysts and industry data show. The company is expected to announce preliminary fourth-quarter earnings later this week, [...]