PAJU, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – For over 20 days, residents of Paju, a city in Gyeonggi Province bordering North Korea, have been subjected to an unrelenting barrage of psychological warfare. The weapon: loudspeakers blaring an cacophony of animal cries, ghostly wails, and other unsettling sounds across the Demilitarized Zone. On October 21, Paju Mayor Kim [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers in full-scale for the second day Monday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, amid tensions over the North’s launches of trash-carrying balloons into the South. The military began the daily anti-Pyongyang broadcasts at 6 a.m. for a 16-hour run [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-flight professional football matches will be broadcast live in 17 countries in 2020, the league office said Thursday. On the eve of the start of the new season, the Korea Professional Football League (K League) said its matches will be available to viewers in the following countries: [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have deviated from its signature stiff recitation of its daily weather broadcast and decided to add some “human touch” to it, as the state television network has revealed some noticeable changes in the style of delivering news. The North’s Korean Central Television (KCTV) has begun [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Exports of South Korean TV programs and other broadcast content at international media trade fairs amounted to $51 million, the latest government data shows. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korea Creative Content Agency, local content providers inked export contracts worth $37.7 million during [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military has refuted claims that it will use loudspeakers at the Demilitarized Zone to broadcast news of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, current North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s half-brother, but it certainly may consider the option. In response to news reports that the South Korean military [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean broadcaster MBC and U.S. media network giant NBCUniversal will jointly develop an original format for a television program, said the Korean counterpart Friday. “A contract was signed with NBCUniversal to collaborate on the development of a program format,” MBC said. “This marks the first time in history [...]