SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean singer Insooni has been selected as the 2025 Woman of Influence Award honoree for her humanitarian activities supporting young people of mixed race and multicultural backgrounds, Pearl S. Buck International said Friday. The 68-year-old has become the first Korean to receive the honor from the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company iSciLab has won an award at a global summit hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the company said Thursday. During the AI for Good Global Summit 2025 held from Tuesday in Geneva, the company’s AI-based animal biometrics solution was recognized by the [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean author Baek Heena’s picture book “Magic Candies” has won the SuperPremio Anderson 2023, a top prize from Italy’s most prestigious children’s book awards. “Magic Candies” was chosen as the book of the year from the award dedicated to the memory of Gualtiero Schiaffino, the founder of the Italian [...]
VIENNA, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In an extremely exciting ceremony, the Energy Globe Foundation announced the world winners in the five categories: Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Youth on November 8. A total of almost 3,000 implemented environmental projects from 187 countries participated in this private initiative from Austria. For the first time in the 22-year history of [...]
MONTREAL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nick W. Verdea, a Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) and Global Leadership Professional (GLP), has been named the 2021 winner of the Bombardier Safety Standdown Award, as selected by the Safety Standdown Advisory Council members. Verdea, Director of Aviation and Corporate Travel for The Williams Company in Tulsa, OK., is [...]
TORONTO, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Sophi.io, The Globe and Mail’s artificial intelligence-based automation, optimization and prediction engine, won WAN-IFRA’s 2021 North American Digital Media Award in the category of Best Paid Content Strategy. This is Sophi’s fourth award in the last month. The North American Digital Media Awards honour news publishers that have delivered cutting-edge, [...]
GWANGJU, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A new international video press award has been created in honor of late German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter, the first western reporter to send out footage of the bloody crackdown on the Gwangju people’s pro-democracy uprising of May 1980, its organizers said Thursday. The May 18 Memorial Foundation and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung has been named best supporting actress by Los Angeles film critics for her performance in the drama film “Minari.” The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) announced Monday that Youn won the award in the best supporting actress category, beating Amanda Seyfried of “Mank.” [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean author and illustrator Baek Heena has won the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award. “With exquisite feeling for materials, looks and gestures, Baek Heena’s filmic picture books stage stories about solitude and solidarity,” a jury of the award said in a statement [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular K-pop group BigBang was named the best world artist at an annual music awards ceremony hosted by an Italian cable TV channel, the group’s management said Monday. The boys won “Best Artist from the World” in the Italian MTV Awards 2016, becoming the only Korean act or [...]