SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of young South Koreans preparing for exams for public jobs and professional licenses has fallen for the second year in a row, data showed Tuesday. Some 634,000 people out of 4.16 million economically inactive people aged 15-29 have been preparing for exams to land jobs this year, [...]
YEONGYANG, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is embarking on a project to recover dung beetles, which have not been officially discovered in the wild since August 1969. The National Institute of Ecology said Monday it plans to release 200 dung beetles captured in Mongolia into a designated habitat this September. Dung beetles were [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Yangcheon District announced on Monday that rest areas for pets have been installed at 40 public restrooms in the district’s parks. Previously, pet owners struggled to find a place to keep their pets while using public restrooms. They had to either carry their pets inside the restroom or [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of North Korean defectors coming to South Korea reached 65 in the April-June period, nearly doubling from 34 three months earlier, government data showed Tuesday, in an apparent rise after China eased its strict COVID-19 restrictions. After escaping the North, 18 men and 47 women reached South [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Exports of K-pop albums reached an all-time high in the first half of the year, with the United States surpassing China as the second-largest market for Korean music, data showed Tuesday. According to the data from the Korea Customs Service, exports of K-pop albums in the first six months [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp.’s construction division has announced plans to launch an Art Gallery service that connects artwork installation and purchasing within its apartment complexes. In order to provide this service to the residents, the construction division intends to establish a strategic partnership with the art auction platform Flea Auction. [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 800 competitors participated in the 2023 Lotte Aquathlon competition held on Sunday. The sports competition involves swimming 1.5 kilometers across Seokchon Lake in southeastern Seoul and running up 2,917 stairs to reach the top of the 123-story Lotte World Tower, South Korea’s tallest skyscraper. Initiated by Lotte Property [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Sunday released a “modular plant kit” for its indoor gardening appliance, the LG tiiun. Users can plant seeds in the LG tiiun mini and transfer them to a separate pot once they reach full growth. The kit includes five holes where two seed kit modules [...]
INCHEON, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual event to reenact “Operation Chromite,” a U.S.-led operation during the Korean War, will return after 7-year hiatus, the event’s host city said Sunday. The city of Incheon and the Navy will jointly reproduce the event by mobilizing 29 warships, 23 aircraft, 15 amphibious vehicles, and 3,000 troops [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s car exports soared nearly 50 percent on-year in the first half of the year to reach an all-time high, driven by solid demand for eco-friendly cars, the industry ministry said Monday. The value of outbound shipments of automobiles came to US$35.7 billion during the first six months [...]