SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer Miljenko Matijevic from American rock band Steelheart will release a new music video in which he is wearing a traditional Korean attire hanbok, wishing for peace on the Korean peninsula. The Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles reported that Matijevic is set to release a music video for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean students think that unification with North Korea is unnecessary, a survey showed Friday. In the online survey of 72,524 elementary, middle and high school students conducted by the education ministry and the unification ministry from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 61.2 percent replied [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. will mount a non-fungible token (NFT) digital art platform on its LED signage. The company announced that it had formed a partnership with the U.S. digital art platform Blackdove and will mount Blackdove’s digital art platform on the LED signage it releases in the global market. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major TV networks kept an unusual silence during Kamila Valieva’s short program of women’s singles figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. The Russian phenom is currently at the center of a doping controversy. Commentators from KBS, MBC and SBS kept their silence for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Post, the national postal service, said Wednesday that postal workers will be in charge of delivering COVID-19 home treatment kits to homes as part of their responsibility as public servants. Registering delivery information on Korea Post’s online website at a local public health center will send a postal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangbuk District Office in Seoul said Wednesday that it will check the safety of the single-person households at risk of solitary death by installing ‘smart plugs’ that make use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Officials at the district’s community service centers will visit households and install the devices [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s new Galaxy S22 smartphones set a new pre-order record on the first day it was released by South Korea’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. Pre-order sales of new models — the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 Plus and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc.’s lightweight, large-screen Gram laptop has topped performance assessments conducted by the U.S. magazine. Consumer Reports, which publishes authoritative monthly reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services, reported Tuesday that LG’s newest 16-inch, 2021 Gram model scored 91 out of 100 to receive the highest score [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported the largest job growth in nearly 22 years in January as the job market improved to pre-pandemic levels due to a low base effect and the ongoing economic recovery, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 26.95 million last month, up 1.14 million [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major instant noodle makers saw their operating profits tumble in 2021 due largely to increased costs, their regulatory filings showed Wednesday. Nongshim Co., the leading maker of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, said that its 2021 operating income plunged 33.8 percent from the previous year. [...]