SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean researchers’ claim of a breakthrough of a potential room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor is stirring up controversy over whether their discovery is real or not amid global interest. Researchers from the Seoul-based Quantum Energy Research Centre Inc., including Lee Suk-bae, Kim Hyun-tak and Kwon Young-wan, posted [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past few months, the South Korean medical community has been divided sharply over the nursing act, with the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) and the Korean Medical Association (KMA) staging multiple rallies and the government and political parties fueling the debate. The nursing act was designed to clarify [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans expressed outrage on Tuesday over what they perceived as egregious refereeing against some of the country’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics this week. In the men’s 1,000m semifinals on Monday, South Korea’s Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo each got disqualified from their [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The romance series “Snowdrop” has sparked criticism that it distorted the history of South Korea’s pro-democracy movement of the late 1980s, prompting calls for the show’s cancellation and withdrawals of corporate sponsorship. The weekend primetime drama on JTBC is about a romantic relationship between Young-ro, a female South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy has sparked after a South Korean firm entering the Chinese market asked webtoon artists and web novel writers to refrain from using expressions that may ‘frustrate’ China. Kakao Entertainment, an entertainment arm of tech giant Kakao Corp., reportedly sent out guidelines on ‘inappropriate expressions about China’ to webtoon [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s plan to build a museum dedicated to late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s massive art collection has stirred a debate among art circles as well as local governments that were vying to attract the facility. Last week, the culture ministry unveiled a plan to build the museum by [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and retail industry is on alert following controversies surrounding misandry sparked by a company’s ad poster. Early this month, convenience store chain GS25 created a poster to promote a special give-away for all customers buying food for camping. Online forums accused the company of releasing a [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korea-China Cultural Town planned for Gangwon Province is being placed under review following massive criticism. Officials from Gangwon Province recently announced the view of Kolon Global Corp., leading the Chinatown project, that the construction of the Korea-China Cultural Town “may not proceed”. Kolon said the project has nothing [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A string of job posts that ban or welcome the application of feminists are stirring up a controversy in South Korea. Recently, an owner of a convenience store in Nowon District in Seoul stipulated in a job post for a part-timer that the applicant shouldn’t be a feminist. Soon [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A construction project for a Korea-China Cultural Town is being embroiled in anti-Chinese sentiment opposing China’s cultural infringement upon South Korea. A petition was posted at an online petition site run by the presidential office last month calling upon the government to stop the Chinatown construction in Gangwon Province. [...]