SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court finalized a four-year prison term Thursday for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk for college admission fraud involving their daughter and other charges, bringing an end to one of South Korea’s most divisive scandals in recent years. Chung Kyung-sim, a former professor of Dongyang [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Irene, a member of popular K-pop act Red Velvet, admitted to allegations that she verbally attacked a stylist during a recent shoot and apologized over the incident. “I sincerely apologize for hurting the stylist with my foolish attitude and careless words and action,” Irene said in an Instagram post [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 14,000 people were estimated to have died from a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011, a figure that is roughly 10 times bigger than previously reported, a study showed Monday. The number of adults who died after being diagnosed as patients of relevant diseases, such [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Kwon Min-ah, the 26-year-old former member of a K-pop girl group AOA, revealed last week that she has been harassed by former AOA leader Jimin for the last 10 years. Jimin, the 29-year-old rapper and singer whose real name is Shin Ji-min, was subject to massive criticism after threatening [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of victims in a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011 are still suffering from various physical and mental illnesses, a report showed Tuesday. Around 83 percent of the respondents said they suffer from lung-related illnesses, while 71 percent and 56.6 percent are suffering from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cable channel Mnet said Wednesday that it will launch no new K-pop audition shows in the future amid a widening police probe into a vote-rigging scandal involving its popular competition series “Produce X101.” “We will refrain from producing audition programs,” Kang Ji-hoon from Mnet said in a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy looms following a recent report by the South Korean media that there were ‘financial exchanges’ surrounding the designation of restaurants to be listed in the Michelin Guide Seoul 2020. Michelin strongly denied the accusations, saying that “it’s a scheme committed by those who have nothing to do with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group is facing yet another headwind at home as South Korea’s top court ordered a review of a suspended sentence for its de facto leader in a bribery case Thursday, adding to the woes that the nation’s largest conglomerate is dealing with. Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of a local humidifier disinfectant manufacturer responsible for the nation’s worst consumer chemical disaster that broke out in 2011 triggered a controversy Wednesday by arguing that the tragedy was caused by insufficient government supervision. Park Dong-suk, CEO of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser (RB Korea), a wholly owned unit [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The prosecution said Tuesday it has indicted 34 people, including former company executives, for manufacturing and selling humidifier disinfectants containing toxic chemicals, wrapping up an eight-month reinvestigation into one of the worst scandals involving consumer products. The probe came after a 2011 scandal involving toxic humidifier disinfectants sold by [...]