SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cosmetics makers expect a rise in sales this year as China moves to lift economic measures implemented in retaliation over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile defense system here, industry sources said Thursday. South Korea’s makeup industry have enjoyed robust growth in recent years helped by “hallyu,” [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Veteran singer Cho Yong-pil, a key member of the South Korean artist troupe to Pyongyang, has suggested that music can serve as a tool for the two Koreas to communicate emotionally. The 160-member group returned home early Wednesday after staging two concerts in Pyongyang. “Just like the concert’s title, [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Joy, a member of K-pop act Red Velvet, will not perform at upcoming concerts in Pyongyang featuring South Korean artists due to scheduling conflicts with her TV show, the singer’s agency said Friday. “Due to Joy’s filming of the MBC TV drama ‘The Great Seducer,’ four members — Wendy, [...]
SAN MATEO, Calif., Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Aryaka®, the leading global SD-WAN provider, today announced that SK Holdings will provide Aryaka’s global SD-WAN solution to enhance global connectivity and application performance for enterprises with offices and sites in South Korea. The partnership will enable SK Holdings to provide global enterprises with significantly faster and more consistent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – No longer just an annoyance one has to pass through to exit, museum gift shops are being sought out on their own merit for the array of goods on offer that are not sold anywhere else. Shin, a 36-year old writer, drops by the National Museum of Korea to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport’s newly opened second terminal is helping facilitate passenger processing at South Korea’s main international gateway, the facility’s operator said Sunday. Since opening to the public Jan. 18, the passenger terminal that is used by Korean Air Lines Co. and planes of the SkyTeam Airline Alliance handled [...]
SINGAPORE, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – OCOIN (OCN), the cryptocurrency of ODYSSEY, has gone ‘live’ on South Korean exchange, FUNCoin, today, marking its successful entry into the South Korean market for the first time. This means that investors and traders alike are now able to trade across any country or region due to FUNCoin’s global [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans changed residences from region to region at the lowest pace in 43 years last year due largely to a rise in housing prices and rapid aging, government data showed Tuesday. The number of people who moved to other regions in the country dropped 3 percent on-year to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The average retirement age for salaried workers topped 61 years last year as a law raising the retirement age for employees to 60 came into full effect, the labor ministry said Sunday. A survey by the ministry found that workers were retiring at an average age of 61.1 in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the worst air quality among a group of 35 mostly rich nations, data showed Sunday, posing a health threat to people in one of the world’s most densely populated countries. In South Korea, PM2.5 levels are 27.9 micrograms per cubic meter, the highest level in the [...]