SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s main gateway, Incheon International Airport, will begin allowing celebrities to use separate entrances in an effort to manage crowd control and improve safety for all travelers. The Incheon International Airport Corporation announced on October 23 that it had sent official notices to entertainment agencies regarding new procedures for artist [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language series “Celebrity” was the most-watched non-English TV show on the streamer in the previous week, its viewership chart showed Wednesday. Released on June 30, the 12-part show about the extravagant lives of social media influencers topped Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the week of July 3-9 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two main airlines, Korean Air and Asiana, will be adding 200,000 won to cancellation charges for customers who cancel a flight reservation after going through the departure gate. Previously, the cancellation charges were only around 100,000 won (US$88), making it difficult to prevent cases where a customer [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The glitz of show business isn’t the same for everyone in the industry, where earnings are heavily imbalanced between A-listers and those who are not, income tax filings for 2015 showed Monday. A total of 15,423 people, whose reported jobs were actors and actresses, reported an annual income that [...]