SEJONG, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students in Paraguay will be able to learn Korean as a second foreign language under an agreement between the two countries, officials said. The education ministry said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its Paraguayan counterpart, effectively adding Korean to the list of [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey by the Modern Language Association (MLA), there has been an overall decline in the number of students studying foreign languages at U.S. colleges and universities. However, amid this trend, Korean is experiencing a surge in popularity, attributed to the Hallyu craze, which includes the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food producers are stepping up to address the growing distribution of copycat products in China. The Korea Food Industry Association established a consortium of food producers to file a lawsuit against Qingdao Taeyangcho Food Co. and Zhengdao Food Co., the two largest K-food imitation producers in China, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean farm owner in Myanmar has been caught in a dispute between armed forces and rebels in the country. The owner of a rubber tree farm in Myanmar’s Yangon region surnamed Kim, who goes by an alias, was forced to demolish two buildings at the farm on August [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American high school students in the United States have stepped up to take action against false claims by China that hanbok, Korean traditional attire, actually originate in China. The Asian American Youth Council (AAYC), a youth organization active in the U.S., announced Sunday that municipality of Tenafly in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A 50-year old Korean living in Mexico, stricken with the coronavirus, was gifted a new life back in her home country. Seoul’s Asan Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in South Korea, announced Tuesday that Kim Chung-yeong, a 55-year old woman currently residing in Mexico, had received a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run Korean Cultural Centers overseas will hold various events this month to mark the anniversary of the creation of Hangeul, the Korean writing system. Dozens of overseas Korean Cultural Centers in 27 countries, including the United States, Canada, Russia and Japan, will host various events, such as [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Last Friday, the front page of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading daily newspaper, covered the painful story of a Korean student couple. The article shed light on the racist violence that the couple suffered on the subway in Berlin on April 27. Lee Se-jin and his wife, Kim Hyun-eum, suffered [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1,600 students at a Korean language school in Dili, East Timor are reaching for the ‘Korean Dream.’ Since 2009, South Korea has been offering work opportunities to Timorese individuals who pass the Korean language proficiency test. So far, a total of 3,200 Timorese have gone to South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An elder was riding a city bus in Seoul recently and saw a very questionable sign. What he saw was a bus stop sign that said ‘STOP’ in English. In the past, there was a sticker underneath the button that said the same thing in Korean and a picture [...]