BEIJING , Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When the COVID-19 pandemic persisted at the start of 2022, 85.4 percent of the 2025 office workers chose to stay in the cities where they work and cooked home meals to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, according to a recent survey conducted by the China Youth Daily. Photo shows the seasonings display area in a Chinese supermarket in Singapor...

Felix of Stray Kids has been diagnosed with a herniated disc, said label JYP Entertainment Thursday. He has been feeling discomfort in his back recently and received the diagnosis after an in-depth examination. For speedy recovery, he will have to refrain from posing or moving that could add strain on his back as per the doctor’s opinion. The management company added that it could also li...

A South Korean diplomat was injured after being attacked by an "unidentified man" in New York, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday. The man was randomly attacked on a Manhattan sidewalk, according to a report in the New York Post, which said he was "slugged in the face". Seoul confirmed that a diplomat at the country's United Nations mission had been injured. "A diplomat affiliated to the U...

Why smelly ginkgo berries? In present-day Korea, ginkgo berries are often associated with their unpleasant stench, which is a constant source of headache to city officials and citizens across the country when they start falling on the ground. However, they were deemed romantic gifts by couples in the Joseon era due to ginkgo trees’ longevity. Ginkgo trees are known to live for thousands of year...

“Actors usually meet for the first time to read scripts together. But it was different for this movie,” Woohee said. Despite all the hard work by the director and the actors in the singing and dancing, the quality of the music performances is unlikely to impress K-pop fans used to high-quality performances on big-budget sets. One of the stars, Lee Ji-hoon could not be present at the press confe...

SINGAPORE , Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GenScript Biotech Corporation (Stock Code: 1548.HK), the world's leading life science research tools and services provider, today announced the opening of more than 30,000-square-feet facility for highly automated protein and gene preparation services. The state-of-the-art site marks a significant expansion of the company's advanced protein and gene plat...

Political vendetta vs. election intervention Yoon’s remarks immediately drew fire from the ruling bloc. “I have never seen a presidential candidate vowing to carry out a political vendetta (against their predecessor) in the many presidential elections I have watched,” Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, said after an electioneering event on Thursday. ...

The number of mergers and acquisitions by Korean companies that took place over the past 10 years was less than half of the average number of M&A cases in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan in the same period. A total of 1,063 M&A cases by Korean companies took place from January 2012 through January this year, which is about 41 percent of the five countries’ average figure of 2,598 cases, ac...

The city of Seoul will receive citizens' applications to choose sites for new electric vehicle chargers as part of its plan to supply 35,000 charging stations in the capital this year, city officials said Thursday. About 22,000 EV chargers will be installed in the city with the support of the Seoul metropolitan government while about 12,000 units will be set up by the environment ministry and ot...

SEJONG -- The Finance Ministry will look into food prices in the market later this month to uncover whether there were irregular hikes in price tags via cartels, the nation’s top policymaker said Thursday. The action comes amid continuous growth, over 3 percent on-year, in consumer prices for several months. Sharp price increases in agricultural and livestock products, alongside rising fuel pric...

Key stakeholders in the nation’s aviation industry -– Korean Air, Airbus, Air Liquide and Incheon International Airport Corp. -– have joined hands to prepare for a roadmap for carbon-neutral aviation. The four parties on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding, under which they agreed to speed up plans to introduce hydrogen fuel and build related infrastructure at airports. The event was ...

Attacks against the ruling Democratic Party of Korea‘s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s wife have continued despite Wednesday’s apology, with opposition parties contending she failed to address the key points of the controversy. Kim Hye-kyung, the wife of Lee, apologized at a press conference, saying she failed to draw distinctions between public and private life in reference to her allege...

Kim shared her experience fencing for the first time. “I learned fencing for 5-6 months prior to shooting the series, because Hee-do is a national athlete-level fencer. I even wrote a journal to record my experience and this was used later as a prop in the series. The growth of the teenagers and their passion to chase a bright future is another aspect to watch,” Kim said, suggesting her upcoming...

South Korean solar companies may face a bright future this year as the US recently extended a tariff for four more years to keep cheap Chinese products in check. According to industry sources Friday, the US last week decided to impose a 15 percent tax on imported solar cells and panels for another four years as part of an apparent effort to block the inflow of Chinese-made products. The US firs...

Smilegate has launched first-person shooting game CrossfireX for next-generation consoles, the company said Thursday. Smilegate said the launch signals the beginning of the company’s plan to target the global console market and solidify its position as South Korea’s representative powerhouse for intellectual property. CrossfireX became available on Xbox One as well as Xbox Series S and X as of ...