SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Joining the widening “Stop Asian Hate” movement, triggered by the recent deadly shootings in Atlanta, K-pop boy band BTS condemned racial discrimination and violence in a resolute Twitter message Tuesday. “We feel grief and anger,” BTS said in a message posted both in Korean and English on its official [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. cosmetic giant Estee Lauder posted an apology on Instagram Tuesday after shipping the wrong color foundation to an online customer with a note saying that the product she ordered “does not suit Asians.” Estee Lauder was accused of racism after an anonymous customer posted a review on the [...]
VICTOR, N.Y., June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, announced today its commitment to a multi-initiative social justice action plan aimed to achieve greater equity for African American/Black colleagues at Constellation, within the beverage alcohol industry, and within the communities they operate in. “The conditions that [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop fans are showing success in getting rid of white supremacist messages spreading on social media. It all began on Wednesday, when white supremacists began using the hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter on Twitter to undermine the human rights movement that spread throughout the United States along with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter following the death [...]
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, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex chain, has come under criticism for a promotional event that asks customers to dress and speak like “foreigners” for discounts, with many voicing concerns that it could potentially prompt borderline racism. The world’s fifth-largest multiplex theater company announced Wednesday that it will offer [...]