SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Tschang-yeul, one of South Korea’s greatest modern artists well known for his “water drop” paintings, died Tuesday at the age of 91. The abstract artist was born in Maengsan, a small town in present-day North Korea, in 1929, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. He [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ki-duk, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, died from COVID-19 complications in Latvia, according to media reports on Friday. The 59-year-old director died early Friday (local time) in a hospital in the Baltic country, the Russian news agency TASS reported, citing the Latvian online portal Delfi. Kim is said to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the recent deaths of several deliverymen and media reports on how they worked in a poor, extreme environment, more people are calling on delivery businesses to rein in excessive efforts to come up with ‘faster’ delivery services. Some consumers even vowed on social media to boycott early morning [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Kun-hee, the architect of now South Korea’s top conglomerate, Samsung Group, had been making headlines in the country’s business, social and even political realms since taking over the helm of the business empire from his father for his offbeat approaches and business insights. Lee inherited the Samsung crown [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Kun-hee, who had transformed Samsung Group into one of the world’s major tech giants from a small trading firm, died at a hospital in Seoul on Sunday at age 78, leaving a thorny succession challenge for his children. The chairman of the flagship Samsung Electronics had been bedridden since [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A parcel delivery worker died while on duty this week, the latest in a series of couriers’ deaths largely blamed on overwork amid an industry boom due to the coronavirus. An advocacy group said Thursday that Kang Doo-han, 39, who was contracted with CJ Logistics, collapsed at a hub [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A contract parcel delivery worker employed by the logistics company Hanjin Express died recently, a delivery workers’ collective said Monday, arguing that an unbearable workload caused his death. The 36-year-old worker, whose surname was Kim and worked at a company branch in the central Seoul ward of Dongdaemun, was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Another delivery worker recently died while working, an umbrella union said Sunday, demanding safety measures for workers in the rigorous industry. A 48-year-old delivery worker, associated with CJ Logistics Corp., was sent to the hospital after reporting breathing difficulty Thursday evening but passed away, according to the Korean Confederation [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the top cause of death in South Korea, a government report showed Tuesday. In 2019, a total of 295,110 deaths were reported in South Korea, down 1.2 percent from a year earlier. It marked the first annual decline since 2013. The statistics agency said 574.8 deaths were [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Koreans are in shock and grief over the abrupt death of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon last week, the political community here seems to be split over the formalities of publicly mourning it. The controversy is largely because he apparently took his own life in the face of [...]