JEJU, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Art Jeju, an art fair marking its sixth anniversary this year, will be held at the convention hall of the Lotte Hotel Jeju in the southern resort island of Jeju in for four days from August 4 to 7. Hosted by the Jeju provincial government and organized by the [...]
BUSAN, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nursing assistants working at hospitals and clinics in the southeastern port city of Busan are suffering from poor working conditions, as they have to take personal leave to quarantine for COVID-19. Nursing assistants, in general, serve as assistants in patient care and diagnosis following the instructions of doctors or [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTube video of pianist Lim Yun-chan’s performance at the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition this year has become the most viewed video out of all performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. “This video just became the most watched version of this piece on YouTube,” the Van [...]
JEJU, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sculptures symbolizing Jeju Island have been set up along the Camino de Santiago, Spain’s most popular trekking course. Officials from the Jeju provincial government and public figures from Spain’s Galicia region held a ceremony at Monte do Gozo on Tuesday (local time) to celebrate the new sculptures. South Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean and foreign migrants fell to the lowest level in 18 years last year as the COVID-19 pandemic restricted cross-border movements by people, data showed Thursday. The number of international migrants, referring to those who stay for more than 90 days here, declined 347,000, or [...]
INCHEON, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A beautiful event is going viral in which a group of citizens voluntarily worked together to remove liquor bottles that fell on the road from a truck. Last Monday afternoon, dozens of soju (distilled liquor) boxes loaded in a 1-ton truck fell on the road when the truck turned [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK will hold K-pop’s first “in-game concert” on the mobile version of the mega-hit game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG), its management agency said Tuesday. YG Entertainment revealed a poster titled BLACKPINK x PUBG Mobile 2022 In-game Concert : The Virtual on the quartet’s official social media [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. is coming up with various ideas to provide new experiences to customers. The company said Tuesday it will set up an LED display on the outer wall of a local gas station in Seoul’s Dongjak District to exhibit digital artwork. For July, some [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 16th consecutive month in June, but the pace of job growth slowed from a month earlier amid heightened economic uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.49 million last month, up 841,000 from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it had launched Samsung Space Tycoon, an experience-type virtual space, on the metaverse platform Roblox. Samsung Space Tycoon is a cyberspace using a management simulation game (tycoon) format, allowing users to produce and enjoy Samsung products and items in the universe. Under the background [...]