SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) secretariat said Tuesday it will invite participants to its Cinema Together program, which was designed to enable participants to enjoy movies together with mentors like directors and actors during the festival period. Cinema Together is a program that allows movie spectators and mentors [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Major universities in Seoul are bringing back offline graduation ceremonies this summer following the end of social distancing measures. The University of Seoul held its 2021 fall semester graduation ceremony on Monday, which was attended by some 1,000 people including graduates and their families. The offline graduation ceremony was [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Cheong Wa Dae, the former presidential office in Seoul that is now opened to the public, has turned into a hotspot for fashion photos after the Cultural Heritage Administration joined hands with Vogue Korea for the “Visit Cultural Heritage” campaign. The fashion magazine unveiled a pictorial that consists of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s population declined on-year for the second consecutive year last year, while the number of single-person households continued to increase, government data showed Tuesday. As of the end of 2021, the nation’s registered population stood at 51,638,809, down 0.37 percent from 51,829,023 tallied at the end of 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A large number of volunteers from all around the country have congregated in areas damaged by the recent torrential rains to help rehabilitate them. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, about 19,000 volunteers participated in the rehabilitation of flood-damaged areas through 54 volunteer centers in six [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 24 years in the second quarter of the year on soaring energy and food costs, data showed Monday. The national consumer price index came to 107.54 in the April-June period, up 5.4 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Among automobiles damaged by the record-setting deluge that hit Seoul recently, the proportion of sedans exceeded SUVs. A local general insurance company received 3,200 damage reports for sedans between Aug. 8-17, accounting for 75.6 percent of all reports, industry sources said. In contrast, there were only 737 damage reports [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Peaches have surpassed watermelon to become this summer’s most popular fruit at large malls, primarily led by changes in consumption trends. Peach sales topped South Korean discount retailer E-Mart Inc.’s fruit sales chart between July 1 and August 18. Unlike the years 2020 and 2021, when peaches came after [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. is making another offensive in the Chinese auto market through high-end models and differentiated marketing to overcome a recent drop in sales. The company has set up a 300-square-meter exhibition hall in a large mall on the Wangfujing shopping street in Beijing [...]
GOSEONG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With jellyfish flocking to the coast due to high water temperatures, coastal authorities and fishermen are scrambling to protect beach visitors. A jellyfish can grow up to 200 kilograms, large enough to rip fishing nets. Packs of smaller jellyfish can also obstruct commercial fishing by taking away the space [...]