SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Z Corp.’s mobile-based metaverse platform Zepeto is under fire for selling Japanese costumes worn during the early stages of Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula. The costumes, released Tuesday, were soon reported by users as sensitive items that could incite discrimination as well as political and social disputes. [...]
CHUNCHEON, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gangwon Fire HeadQuarters on Wednesday thanked firefighters who came from across the country to join in the effort to fight massive wildfires in eastern coastal areas. Following a nationwide mobilization of firefighters on March 4, some 300 firefighters and 109 fire trucks banded together to fight the fires. [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BMW Group Korea said Wednesday it has replaced paper copies of its car warranties with a digital warranty system. As South Korea’s first digitalized warranty in the automobile industry, the system is also BMW’s first around the world. Customers will receive a single-page QR code sheet instead of a [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of stock investors in South Korea spiked more than 50 percent on-year in 2021 to breach the 10 million mark amid a retail investment boom, industry data showed Thursday. A total of 13.84 million investors held shares in 2,426 companies listed on the country’s main and secondary [...]
SEJONG, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans getting married tumbled to a new all-time low in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic and young people’s changing attitude toward marriage, government data showed Thursday. The number of couples tying the knot in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came to 193,000 last year, down 9.8 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will establish the first Gig Worker Workstation as part of efforts to provide workspace for gig workers who are employed primarily on a temporary basis. Based on considerations that gig workers use cafes or shared offices as workspaces, thereby resulting in a [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s car exports expanded more than 5 percent in February on increased production capacity, despite a global shortage of automotive chips, data showed Wednesday. Outbound shipments of automobiles stood at 167,682 units last month, up 5.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The spread of COVID-19 has led to further social isolation with leisure activities including traveling, sports and others halving since the pre-pandemic era. Statistics Korea reported Tuesday that the level of the country’s social isolation last year reached 34.1 percent, the highest since 2009. The level of interpersonal trust [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean webtoon series “Money Game” has been produced into an American web reality show, Naver Webtoon said Tuesday. The new American show is a five-episode reality show in which eight participants compete in a series of brainteaser games to win a prize of US$300,000. Jubilee, a YouTube channel [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of employed people in South Korea increased by more than 1 million on-year for the second straight month in February due to a low base effect and the economic recovery, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 27.4 million last month, up 1.04 million [...]