To coincide with the international tradeshow, Watches & Wonders, Hublot and Takashi Murakami will be presenting two NFT digital works, inspired by the Hublot Classic Fusion Takashi Murakami watches To stay up-to-date, follow: @Hublot #Hublot #TakashiMurakamiNFT NYON, Switzerland , April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hublot and Takashi Murakami are pushing back the boundaries of artistic expre...

Oh My Girl will host a fan meet event to celebrate its seventh anniversary of debut with fans, said agency WM Entertainment on Friday. The bandmates will greet their fans two times in Seoul on April 30 at an event called “Miracle International.” They will turn into a team of marketing experts for the meeting. The seven-member group released its second studio album “Real Love” on March 28,...

Kyobo Life Insurance, Korea’s third-largest insurance company by assets, said Friday that a private equity firm-led consortium is threatening to derail its efforts to go public. The consortium is compelling the insurance company to honor an options contract that Kyobo says could undermine its CEO, the largest shareholder. The consortium -- led by equity firm Affinity Equity Partners -- signed a ...

Samsung Electronics is one of many South Korean companies who have taken on reforming the use of honorific titles in the workplace, aiming for a more horizontal culture and removing hurdles that might have stifled employees’ creativity. The tech giant appears to have made a step toward this goal recently, namely from upper management. Samsung co-Chief Executive Officer Han Jong-hee told staff ...

NGO professionals and lawmakers said the project essentially refers to Israel’s successful programs to help young diaspora Jews strengthen their Jewish identity and connection to Israel. For instance, the Birthright Israel program offers one free trip to Israel for young Jewish adults living abroad between the ages of 18 and 32. Yoo Jin-sang, director of the Global Center of Handong Global Unive...

Lee Soon-ja, the widow of South Korea’s late authoritarian leader Chun Doo-hwan, will take on legal proceedings involving a civil case against Chun, as she decided to inherit her late husband’s assets. Lee, however, will not be entitled to pay the penalty that Chun failed to pay during his life, which amounts to 95.6 billion won ($78.6 million), or 43 percent of the 220.5 billion won that the co...

A presidential petition against the president-elect’s plan to relocate the presidential office had garnered over 500,000 signatures of support Friday. The petition on the presidential website operated by the Moon Jae-in government claims that President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s election pledge to relocate the presidential office from Cheong Wa Dae in Jongno, Seoul about 6 kilometers south to the Def...

SACHEON, South Korea -- Two Air Force KT-1 trainer jets collided in midair and crashed in southern South Korea on Friday, killing all four pilots aboard the planes, the Air Force and local disaster response officials said. The jets went down in a rice paddy in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, after colliding with each other in midair at around 1:37 p.m. during training, just minutes...

Fellow co-programmer Moon Seok added, “Seven out of the nine selected films were directed by women in the Korean competition category. We hope this trend continues in the commercial film industry.” “The most common theme this year in the Korean competition category was ‘family,’” Moon said. He presumed that the change is due to the pandemic, which led filmmakers to focus more on matters happenin...

- World 's No.1 Ginseng Brand launched exclusive brand "Koreselect" for the U.S. - Lee Min -ho, Global Embassador of KGC, plays the role in Pachinko on Apple TV+ SEOUL, South Korea and NEW YORK , April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), the world's number one ginseng brand, officially launched its KORESELECT product line in the U.S. market. The KORESELECT line exc...

The South Korean government announced Friday that it will raise the private gathering size limit to 10 people and push back the current 11 p.m. curfew on restaurants and cafes to midnight. “Other COVID-19 preventive measures will remain unchanged,” Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said during a COVID-19 response meeting in Seoul on Friday. The new social distancing rules will be effective from Monda...

Shares of underwear maker Ssangbangwool rose about 29 percent Friday, as the company announced its bid to acquire SsangYong Motor, a debt-ridden carmaker whose recent takeover by a local electric carmaker fell apart. The company’s shares closed at 1,010 won ($0.83), up 29 percent from Thursday’s closing on the benchmark Kospi board. Ssangbangwool’s key subsidiary Kanglim, which trades on the jun...

South Korean botox maker Medytox has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission against its local rival Hugel over allegations of stealing its bacteria and manufacturing processes, the company said Friday. According to Medytox, the company lodged the complaint on Wednesday against Hugel, Hugel America and Croma-Pharma GmbH with top global law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sulli...

Employees at South Korean mobile lender KakaoBank have higher productivity than their peers at the country’s four banking giants, data showed Friday. A KakaoBank employee was estimated to have earned 349 million won ($280,000), higher than the average figures for Hana Bank and Shinhan Bank, at 315 million won and 271 million won, respectively. Worker productivity of the other two giants -- KB K...

SEJONG -- Korea’s monthly exports recorded an all-time high in March on the back of robust performance in outbound shipments of semiconductors and petrochemicals, state data showed Friday. But the nation saw its trade balance in the red, as imports also increased to a record high last month in the wake of a spike in international raw materials prices. According to the Ministry of Trade, Industr...