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 [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Locals in Seongju County, which was chosen by the government Wednesday as the site for THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery deployment, took to the streets vehemently criticizing the decision. There took place a similar protest in front of the defense ministry building in Seoul on the same day [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye will convene a session of the National Security Council (NSC) on Thursday to discuss follow-up measures to the recent decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy an advanced U.S. antimissile system here, her office said. On Wednesday, the allies announced their official decision to deploy a [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – July 16 is the legal deadline to set next year’s minimum hourly wage, and while members of a part-time workers organization protested for an increase to 10,000 won at Gwanghwamun Plaza Tuesday, another rally was organized by other groups that are pushing the government to freeze wages for 2017. [...]