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[Herald Interview] Seegene to launch single-platform disease detection in 2017, CEO says

South Korean biotech company Seegene plans to make an aggressive push into the US and European markets by launching hundreds of molecular diagnostic assays enabling early detection of various disease...

Dec 11, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] Familiar but new, Sechs Kies returns with remake album

K-pop group Sechs Kies, which regrouped this year for a reunion concert after a 16-year hiatus, has released a new album filled with remakes of the band’s past hits. More than a decade since their ...

Dec 5, 2016
Music
[Herald Interview] Young opera soprano returns home to star as Juliet prior to Met Opera debut

From Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata” to Fiorilla in Rossini’s “Il Turco in Italia,” up-and-coming opera star Hyesang Park is gearing up to tackle one of the theater world’s most iconic leading ladi...

Dec 4, 2016
Theater
[Herald Interview] Ronan by Clinet adds refined touch to Korea’s affordable wine market

Affordability is the recent trend in South Korea’s alcoholic beverage industry. And to break away from the luxurious yet costly image, a growing number of wine and whisky brands are rolling out lower...

Nov 22, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] Saving planet by transforming food market

Dealing with 7.4 billion consumers in different languages around the world and trying to change their ideas on the environment can be hard work, maybe even impossible. But Jason Clay, senior vice pr...

Nov 17, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] 'Coupang moving to Jamsil's Tower 730'

Coupang, the largest operator of social commerce in Korea, will relocate to a new skyscraper called Tower 730 in Jamsil, southeastern Seoul, after the building is completed in February next year, the...

Nov 14, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] German industry expert praises Incheon Bridge project

Incheon Bridge is a good example to show how an excellently managed project can benefit the local economy, said Reinhard Wagner, president of the International Project Management Association, during ...

Nov 9, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] Black Pink still finding its color

Returning with another EP just three months after its debut, YG Entertainment’s newest girl group Black Pink hopes to differentiate itself from other female K-pop performers through its dance skills....

Nov 3, 2016
Music
[Herald Interview] Filming on North Korea’s ‘perfect, fake’ stage

When director David Kinsella first set foot in North Korea in 2014, what struck him most was not its expected desolation, the small army of government officials that met him at every turn, or how he ...

Nov 1, 2016
Film
[Herald Interview] Korea needs to better protect intellectual property against illicit trade: experts

South Korea needs to ramp up its efforts to protect intellectual property rights in its combat against illicit trade, two experts who came to Seoul to attend the 2016 Korea-EU Intellectual Property R...

Oct 30, 2016
Industry
[Herald Interview] Park Bo-gum opens up on two sides of Lee Young

Actor Song Joong-ki made viewers swoon as a dashing army lieutenant in “Descendants of the Sun” earlier this year, but the latter half of 2016 has seen actor Park Bo-gum stir the hearts of many as Pr...

Oct 26, 2016
Television
[Herald Interview] Webtoonist mocks hierarchy of Korean workplace

A scene from artist Yang Kyung-soo’s webtoon series depicts a senior executive and several junior employees engaged in seemingly amicable conversation. The executive cheerily tells his department mem...

Oct 20, 2016
Culture
[Herald Interview] Greek crises brought to screen at BIFF in ‘Amerika Square’

Busan -- Director Yannis Sakaridis portrays a Greece in crisis through the prism of one small Athens neighborhood in “Amerika Square,” which held its world premiere at the Busan International Film Fe...

Oct 13, 2016
Film
[Herald Interview] Jeonju, an intersection of tradition and innovation

In an era when a nation’s competitiveness has come to be defined by that of individual cities, it is crucial that each city preserves its uniqueness rather than mimic other major cities, according to...

Oct 13, 2016
Social affairs
[Herald Interview] Nokia’s AP head bets on Korea’s 5G leadership

South Korea may be in a leadership position in the global market for 5G broadband, Nokia’s Asia Pacific and Japan head said last week. Korea aims to be the first to unveil the next-generation networ...

Oct 9, 2016
Technology

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