SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Stores and restaurants near Gwanghwamun Square, which has been the center of mass candlelight protests for almost two months, have seen sales soar with the ongoing civil unrest. According to KB Kookmin Card, the number of credit card transactions increased by 24 percent to 1,086,910 compared to last year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The impeachment vote to bring down President Park Geun-hye is planned for Friday, but it’s not going to stop angry Koreans from once again gathering on Saturday for what will be the 7th nationwide rally, with protestors calling for Park to step down immediately. This weekend’s rally, however, will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – For the fifth weekend in a row, hundreds of thousands of Koreans took to the streets demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, who is suspected of a host of illicit activities related to corruption and abuse of power. The latest protests, however, were noted by their integration with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean media outlets have been busy lately with extensive coverage of South Korea’s political crisis, railing against the South’s feeble state of affairs and its embroiled President Park Geun-hye. But their propaganda may be having a reverse effect, said Voice of America on Thursday, citing interviews with former [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The controversy began with a tweet on Tuesday about Zara’s Korean chief, Lee Bong-jin, who allegedly made a deprecating remark in a recent lecture about the ongoing protests related to Korea’s influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park. According to the tweet posted by one of the lecture’s participants, Lee said [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been a month since Koreans started to take to the streets to protest the ongoing political scandal. Now, a new smartphone app will better serve over one million (organizer estimate) citizens that will once again gather in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun neighborhood this Saturday. The app is called the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are expected to join an anti-government protest Saturday, police and civic groups said, amid rising public anger over President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal. The rally, involving some 1,500 civic groups, may draw the largest number of participants this millennium, with the police expecting [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The cold is not going to stop angry Koreans from gathering. Thousands took to the streets across the country on Wednesday night, calling for the resignation of Korea’s troubled President Park Geun-hye over the influence-peddling scandal surrounding her confidante Choi Soon-sil. Mass rallies have sprung up in major Korean [...]
SEOUL, August 3 (Korea Bizwire) – “I went to Ewha,” said Madam Jung, played by Kim Hye-su, in the popular Korean movie ‘Tazza: The High Rollers’. Ewha Womans University has long been known for its reputation as the largest and most prestigious women’s university in Korea. As many students and alumni of Ewha take pride in their [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – During hot summer days in Korea, a traditional custom is to eat “invigorating” food to counter the blazing heat that often leaves people weary and fatigued. Boshintang is a Korean “invigorating” soup that is made with dog meat, but ongoing controversy regarding the morality of consuming dog meat in Korean [...]