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S.Korea needs 35,000 additional foreign workers: study
Jan 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Anushka Sen, global celebs to ring in New Year in Seoul
Thousands of global celebrity infuencers, including Indian TV actress and model Anushka Sen, are set to ring in the New Year at a content festival in...
Dec 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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CJ ENM expands global reach with entertainment IP exports
South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM Co. is broadening its international reach, exporting its widely popular entertainment show intellectual prope...
Oct 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Are virtual idols the next big thing in K-content?
South Korea's booming virtual idol sector, which combines K-pop content and technology, is fueling interest on the enter-tech (entertainment and tech...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea’s web novel sector hits $750 mn in value: Study
South Korea's rising web novel industry, which has seen popular works like "Reborn Rich" and "The Red Sleeve" made into TV series, has exceeded 1 tri...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Baby Shark to be aired in Indonesia through RTV
South Korea's The Pinkfong Company, popularly known for its "Baby Shark" character, recently inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with RTV, Indo...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list
BTS' first official book "Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS", published in celebration of 10th Anniversary, topped the New York Times bestsell...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korean content biz event in Indonesia targets SE Asian consumers
An export conference for South Korean content this week in Jakarta, Indonesia, targeted the Southeast Asian market's population of 600 million.The In...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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12-color ‘Lakeside Recital’ held by 12 poets in Como, Italy
COMO, ITALY -- Como, a lakeside city with a glacial lake at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy. The 13th European International Poetry Festival &l...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils project with S.Korean artist
The Swiss luxury watch and clock maker Jaeger-LeCoultre on Monday unveiled "Origin," a collaborative work with South Korean digital media artist Yiy...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Night at Korean royal palace brims with stars and Gucci fashion
Seoul has again grabbed the attention of global fashionistas as Italian fashion house Gucci on Tuesday night finally staged its belated Korean fashio...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Three S.Korean poets invited to European Int'l Poetry Festival
The European International Poetry Festival "Europa in versi" will be held in Como, a lake city near Milan, Italy, from May 19 to 21.Thirteen poets fr...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leeum's enduring charm to foreign VIPs
On a shiny Monday morning, the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art nestled on the slope of Mt. Namsan in a quiet Hannam neighborhood in Seoul was flanked by...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Gucci picks Korean royal palace for 2024 collection
Seoul is emerging as a new venue for global luxury brands’ fight for pride, with Louis Vuitton and Gucci set to unveil their new fashion collec...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Louis Vuitton to turn bridge over Seoul river into catwalk
Global luxury brand Louis Vuitton will premiere a fashion show in Seoul this weekend, expecting to attract leaders from the global fashion, culture a...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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High- and low-income S.Koreans alike reluctant to have babies: Survey
South Koreans in low- and high-income brackets alike are unwilling to have children due to either insufficient time or money, found a recent survey o...
Apr 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Preppy style attracts Korea's Gen Z, Alpha seeking retro trends
A licensed fashion brand from the University of Cambridge has entered South Korea as more young consumers are enthusiastic about the so-called Ivy Le...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea's MZers consider income, working time most when job hunting: Survey
Members of South Korea's Generation MZ, or people born in the early 1980s to early 2000s, prioritize income and working time when looking for a job i...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea's elderly population to exceed 10 million in 2024
The number of people in South Korea aged 65 or over next year is expected to break 10 million, with the country to enter an era in which 20% of the p...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea's Musicow to lead fractional IP ownership globally
Musicow Inc., South Korea’s first music copyright trading platform, is set to gain momentum as fractional ownership in copyright claims has bee...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' maker to create webtoon-based K-drama series
KT Skylife Co., a broadcasting unit within South Korean telecom behemoth KT Corp., is slated to boost its investment in intellectual property content...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo is most popular content on KT's Genie TV
The drama with the most purchases this year on Genie TV, internet protocol TV (IPTV) service of KT Corp., is the hit legal drama "Extraordinary Attor...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean think tank urges focus on 'yold' demographic in clothing market
South Korea's Samsung Fashion Institute on Thursday announced "Dive In" as the keyword for next year's trends in the fashion industry, meaning that i...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackpink named Entertainer of the Year by Time Magazine
Group Blackpink was selected as "2022 Entertainer of the Year" by TIME, a US weekly magazine. The magazine released a list of the most influential pe...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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VANK launches campaign to promote Korea in Vietnamese
The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (or VANK), an online public diplomatic mission, said on Saturday that it has opened a Vietnamese language site ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards
When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power to...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Average is over; microsegment consumers, professor says
The phrase “Average is over” topped the list of 10 key phrases suggested by a renowned Korean consumer behavior professor to predict 2023...
Oct 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Gucci to hold Alessandro Michele-directed show at Korean royal palace
Italian luxury fashion house Gucci will hold a fashion show choreographed by its famous creative director Alessandro Michele at a South Korean royal ...
Sep 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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MZers become key consumers of ergonomic office chairs, Sidiz says
Ergonomic office chairs are drawing heightened interest from millennials and Generation Zers in South Korea, according to the country’s leading...
Aug 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Golf apparel goes trendy and upmarket in Korea on rise of young golfers
As the popularity of golf grows in South Korea, particularly among young people, golf clothes are becoming increasingly more expensive and fashionabl...
Aug 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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