SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul, long hailed as a global metropolis, is rapidly shrinking, battered by low birth rates and an aging populace. Over the past two decades, the city has lost over 600,000 residents, with one in five people leaving the districts of Nowon, Dobong, and Gangbuk. As projections indicate that Seoul’s population [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past decade, Seoul has seen an exodus of 5.47 million people, a significant population shift that highlights changing urban dynamics in South Korea’s capital. Statistics Korea reports a net outflow of 860,000 residents, with only 4.61 million people moving to Seoul during the same period, from 2014 to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on Friday began heading to their hometowns for family reunions or taking trips on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday, as the nation celebrates its first such holiday without social distancing restrictions since the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago. This year’s extended Lunar New [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a record surge of COVID-19, the annual exodus for the Lunar New Year holiday began Friday, as South Koreans head to their hometowns for family reunions and take trips during the extended holiday. This year’s three-day holiday runs from Monday to Wednesday and it is extended by an [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual exodus for Chuseok, the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving, began Friday as South Koreans head to their hometowns for family reunions and take trips during the extended holiday. This year’s three-day Chuseok holiday runs from Monday to Wednesday and it is extended by an extra two days due [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of South Korean airline pilots have joined Chinese airlines in the past five years, a ruling party lawmaker said Wednesday, amid a recent boom in the aviation industry. An Ho-young of the ruling Democratic Party said 460 pilots from eight local carriers joined foreign airlines, which usually offer [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — EXO’s title song ‘Call Me Baby’ was the most viewed K-pop music video on YouTube in the first half of 2015, said SM Entertainment on July 2. The music video for Call Me Baby was released worldwide on March 31, and the number of hits on YouTube had reached [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band EXO ranked 90th on the Billboard 200 albums chart with its latest album, setting a new record as the highest-charting K-pop album by a male act. Released on March 30, EXO’s second full-length album “Exodus” landed at No. 90 on the Billboard 200, selling 6,000 copies in the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — EXO began promoting Exodus, its second album, with a press conference at SM TOWN COEX Artium on March 30. Reporters from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries swarmed the conference hall to cover EXO’s much anticipated new album. Their new song, ‘Call Me Baby,’ which was released [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band EXO climbed to No. 5 on the U.S. iTunes chart this week with its new album, “Exodus,” the group’s agency said Tuesday. Released worldwide on Monday, the group’s second full-length album rose to fifth place on the U.S. iTunes general albums chart on Tuesday, S.M. Entertainment said. “Exodus” [...]