SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 37 South Korean nationals have won prizes at 25 international classical music competitions held in the first half of this year, a local cultural foundation said Friday. Twelve Korean pianists were awarded at 13 contests, and seven violinists won medals at nine competitions during the January-June [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With Russia continuing to pursue new ground in its invasion of Ukraine, South Koreans are stepping up to help “Koryoin” expatriates from Ukraine who have fled to the country. Koryoin is a Korean term referring to Koreans who immigrated to Russia and post-Soviet Union countries some 100 years ago [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus pandemic continuing for more than two years, Koreans have learned a new habit of washing hands while foreigners are watching more YouTube content, a Seoul-based non-profit organization said Wednesday. The Corea Image Communication Institute conducted a survey of 214 Koreans and 203 foreigners, in which 71.5 [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Tuesday over its new school textbooks that have deleted words that show the coercive nature of its World War II atrocities against Koreans. In a statement, Seoul’s foreign ministry expressed “deep regrets” and urged Tokyo to address the problem, describing [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine South Koreans, including Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber Rhee Keun, are in Ukraine after having entered the war-ravaged country without government permission since March 2, many of them presumably as volunteer fighters, a foreign ministry official said Friday. South Korea has prohibited its citizens from traveling to the country since mid-February. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The perception that all aspects of Korean society are unfair is more widespread among older citizens, a recent survey revealed. Kim Seok-ho, a sociology professor at Seoul National University, released an analysis of the results of a survey in which 21.8 percent of respondents believed all aspects of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans have no interest in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a survey showed Friday. Gallup Korea polled 1,002 South Korean adults from Tuesday to Thursday on their thoughts on the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games in the Chinese capital. And 65 percent said they were not [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans are more worried about the country’s lack of jobs than young people in any other country, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korean National Commission for UNESCO conducted a survey of 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 34, 34 percent of whom picked ‘lack of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Six in 10 South Koreans believe they cannot move up the social ladder even though they have a chance for better education and jobs, a survey showed Wednesday. The biennial poll released by Statistics Korea showed that 60.6 percent of the surveyed think there is a low possibility that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans picked competition as the main concept inspired by the word fairness, while foreigners selected justice as the main fairness-inspiring concept. The Corea Image Communications Institute (CICI), a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the nation’s image overseas, conducted a survey of 432 people consisting of 216 Koreans and [...]