SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has formally confirmed its ratification of a U.N. agreement on the sustainable use of marine biological diversity, becoming the first East Asian country to do so, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. South Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Hwang Joon-kook deposited an instrument of the ratification for the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has established its first domestic Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to promote an inclusive work environment and accelerate mutual growth between employees and the company. According to the Samsung Electronics Newsroom, the company held a launch ceremony for its Device Experience (DX) division’s ERGs on February 11 at its [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — After reigning one of the world’s most competitive music charts four times, BTS has again topped the Billboard Hot 100 with its summer bop “Permission to Dance.” The upbeat song, which the South Korean septet has stressed is something for everyone, became the fifth BTS song to hit No. [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In the past several weeks, global fans of K-pop came under a sudden burst of collective observation by the international media, with a wave of positive coverage depicting K-pop fans as agents of change amid a series of high-profile cases of political activism related to the Black Lives Matter [...]
VICTOR, N.Y., Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, announced today that that Bill Newlands, president and chief executive officer, is joining CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ – the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace. The CEO Action [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The year 2015 has been one of the most diverse years for South Korean movies and music, as both Korean and non-Korean films topped the local box-office chart and a wave of nostalgia brought on by TV series set in the 1980s and 90s took South Koreans down musical [...]
Daegu, Korea, August 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Province of North Gyeongsang held the ‘2013 secondary language competition for children from multi-cultured families’ on August 14 to help the children better understand the culture of their parents and to improve their language skills. More than 38 teams participated in this year’s competition competing in seven different languages [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service will jointly promote their ‘Rainbow Bridge Project’ as part of their cultural diversity policy that aims for cohabitation among the different social and cultural actors living together in our society. Different from other cultural diversity programs, [...]