SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Online drug trafficking spiked last year, data showed Wednesday, probably due to the continued spread of the internet and COVID-19. The data from the National Police Agency said 2,608 people were detained last year for trading drugs online. The corresponding figures stood at 1,120 in 2016, 1,100 in 2017, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Korean companies are hiring online as the pandemic drags on. Online job search portal JobKorea conducted a survey of 365 South Korean businesses, 67.1 percent of whom responded that they are ‘hiring online.’ Among them, 80.4 percent of large businesses have introduced online hiring programs. [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Music competitions for classical musicians are moving online as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. This year’s Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, which ended on May 3, assessed pre-recorded videos of each performance online for the first and second rounds. Only the six finalists performed offline with [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The combination of offline health coaching with smartphone-based online coaching helps improve the self-management of individuals suffering from chronic diseases, a recent study showed. A research team from the Department of Family Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital said Thursday that it had tested the effectiveness of the offline health coaching [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Monday that it will hold the 2021 Seoul Fashion Week for Fall/Winter from March 22-27. The fashion show will take place surrounded by famous artifacts and artworks owned by the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The average amount of time South Koreans spent using the internet reached over 20 hours per week last year, 2.7 hours more than the time spent the previous year amid the stay-at-home trend driven by the pandemic, a report showed Wednesday. South Koreans used the internet 20.1 hours a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a major K-pop and Korean culture festival that draws millions of viewers each season, will be held online again next month amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, its organizer said Tuesday. The third season of the online event, titled “KCON:TACT,” will stream from March 20-28 through YouTube and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carriers are taking membership benefits online as the coronavirus is resulting in higher consumption in the contact-free market. SK Telecom Co., for one, is introducing various membership benefits to T Membership, the company’s online membership platform, for a series of contact-free modes of consumption including online [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival, the biggest annual South Korean outdoor rock concert, will kick off this week in a virtual way due to the new coronavirus, its organizers said Tuesday. The 2020 festival, the 15th of its kind, runs on Friday and Saturday, with all concerts and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Upcoming local biennial art exhibitions will go virtual to allow people to enjoy high-quality artworks at home amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic. The Busan Biennale 2020, a biennial international contemporary art show held in the southern port city of Busan, will kick off Saturday and run through Nov. 8 [...]