INCHEON, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTuber in his 40s has been referred to prosecutors for further investigation and potential indictment on charges of installing spy cameras at about 40 polling stations ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, officials said Friday. The YouTuber has been under police custody since last week as a [...]
INCHEON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTuber in his 40s has been detained on suspicions of installing spy cameras at polling stations in Incheon, west of Seoul, where early voting will take place ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, police said Friday. The man is suspected of breaking into two early voting polling [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The combined annual income of single-person media creators, such as YouTubers, reached over 1 trillion won (US$753 million) in 2022, according to data released Friday. A total of 39,366 individuals reported their annual income as single-person media creators in 2022, with the total amount reaching 1.14 trillion won, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Tzuyang, a famous South Korean YouTuber with 8.67 million subscribers, recently sparked controversy by posting seafood “mukbang” (a portmanteau in Korean of “eating” and “broadcast”) videos. Amid growing concerns about declining seafood consumption due to Japan’s release of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, her seafood [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean YouTuber with around 1.34 million subscribers fell victim to a scam by a local police officer while traveling in India. FITVELY, a health YouTuber, recently shared on an online community an incident from his trip to India when he got detained by local police for allegedly violating [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean YouTuber is offering a peek into the daily life of Pyongyang residents. The YouTube channel Olivia Natasha – YuMi Space DPRK Daily offers video updates on daily life in North Korea. DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The channel, which launched in June [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreign YouTuber revealed test results of folding Samsung Electronics Co.’s foldable smartphone Galaxy Z Flip3 thousands of times under harsh conditions. Polish tech YouTuber ‘Mrkeybrd’ carried out a test in which a Galaxy Z Flip3 was folded and opened thousands of times on a live broadcast last week. [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber Rhee Keun, who left for Ukraine in March to join the war against Russia, said he is combating in the war against Russia on the front line, rejecting various rumors about him. His illegal entry to Ukraine has spurred various speculation and rumors ranging from his death [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber Rhee Keun, who left for Ukraine to join the war against Russia, claimed Wednesday his special combat team is conducting confidential direct offensive operations in the country. Rhee, a former South Korean Navy special warfare officer, left for Ukraine in early March to join the war against [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is taking administrative steps to revoke the passport of a Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber for his unauthorized entry to Ukraine and it is also seeking criminal punishment against him, a related ministry said Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rhee Ken, a former Korean Navy [...]