LONDON , May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the latest pre-ceremony announcement from The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2022, it is revealed today that the recipient of the Icon Award 2022 is Kenyan nutritionist Wawira Njiru , founder and director of non-profit Food for Education. The Icon Award celebrates an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the food world worthy of internat...

Boy band Just B will hold its first standalone concert on July 30, announced agency BlueDot Entertainment on Tuesday. The band that debuted about a year ago will share the experience with more fans by communicating with those from other parts of the world in real time during the concert, which will be broadcast live as well, incorporating a range of technologies. The band’s latest album i...

Authorities evacuated over 1,000 people from villages, hospitals and correctional facilities near a fast-spreading wildfire in the southern city of Miryang on Tuesday. The blaze broke out at 9:25 a.m. on the hill in Miryang, around 280 km southeast of Seoul, and is continuing to spread, according to firefighting authorities. Close to noon, the Korea Forest Service upgraded its wildfire response...

South Korea's health authorities on Tuesday said that it plans to place monkeypox in the second level of contagious diseases, out of a four-tier scheme, as monkeypox is spreading fast around the globe, though it has not yet been detected here. The country has been vigilant against a potential inflow of the monkeypox virus as an increasing number of countries have recently reported cases of the v...

“I think Song won the award not because I did something right; it was due to accumulated work that he has done. I could not believe that he had not received any awards previously,” he said. “If he had received the award earlier for appearing in director Bong Joon-ho’s work or director Lee Chang-dong’s work, nobody would think that he does not deserve it. I feel sorry that he is receiving it (bela...

South Korea has approved a defense contractor to begin negotiations on arms exports to Poland as the central European country called for support to accelerate and expand the delivery of weapons amid the war in Ukraine. South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration said Tuesday that it has given the green light for Hanwha Defense to kick off dialogue on exporting K4 machine guns to Pol...

The fast-growing omnichannel food tech company continues regional expansion after closing strong with 17x revenue growth in 2021 SINGAPORE , May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oddle, the leading omnichannel F&B technology company headquartered in Singapore , announced today the closing of a USD 5 million funding. The financing was led by Altara Ventures, a technology venture capital firm headqu...

South Korea has dispatched the largest-scale naval fleet and a brigadier general to the US-led multinational maritime exercise to be held in and around the Hawaiian Islands next month. A flotilla of warships, maritime aircraft and troops left a naval base on the southern island of Jeju at noon Tuesday to participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise, South Korea’s Navy announc...

Hyundai Oilbank seeks to become an eco-friendly energy company through two new projects on emission reduction technology that can be applied across the energy system. The Korean oil company said Tuesday it has been working with DL E&C on two carbon capture and utilization projects to produce construction materials such as cement and concrete with desulfurized gypsum and carbon. Hyundai Oilbank ...

South Korean stocks closed higher for a third consecutive day Tuesday as foreigners scooped up local equities amid eased concerns over a global recession and China's economic slowdown, analysts said. The local currency inched up against the US dollar. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 16.24 points, or 0.61 percent, to close at 2,685.90. Trading volume was moderate at 649.8 mil...

The British School at Seoul Foreign School is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. The British School was founded on Aug. 25, 1981, through collaboration among the British Council, the British Businessmen’s Group and the British Women’s Group as well as the Seoul Foreign School. The British School began with two classes, 17 students and two UK-qualified teachers, and in 1984, the British School...

The South Korean government should help companies build a hydrogen economy because using the renewable energy ensures growth as businesses race to reduce their carbon footprint, Woo Tae-hee, vice chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Tuesday at a forum on green hydrogen. “I believe it is time for us to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity to secure the hydrogen mark...

The Seoul International Book Fair, the country‘s largest book event, kicks off Wednesday at Coex in southeastern Seoul. The annual book fair will run from Wednesday to Sunday, with a total of 196 companies including 18 foreign companies and 214 speakers expected to join the event. This year’s event takes place after two years of scaled-down editions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the theme...

When the grand opening of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games unfolded, it wowed viewers with various spectacular scenes, including 1,217 drones in the air and hundreds of South Korean snowboarders in light-emitting jumpsuits who slid down the slopes with the drones flashing above them. There was also a controversial feature: Inmyeonjo, a mythological bird with a human face that often appears in a...

Park Chang-woo, founder and CEO of multichannel networking firm Soon Ent, said businesses should not misunderstand TikTok and must grab opportunities the platform presents. Speaking at The Korea Herald’s Global Business Forum on Wednesday, Park emphasized that TikTok, a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is more than an alternative to video-streaming juggernaut ...