SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s game market is estimated at 9.75 trillion won in 2012, up 10.8 percent from the previous year’s 8.80 trillion won. By this year’s end the market is projected to have surpassed the 10-trillion-won level and up to 12 trillion won by 2015. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A new barter-based settlement scheme for small-sized merchants has been invented that would relieve the problem of liquidity for 6 million small business operators. Korea Barter Settlement System said on October 23 it has developed a new settlement scheme called “Extrade Card System” and earned a patent for [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A new smartphone app that shows an image of your business card or a picture of yours on the screen of a smartphone on the other side of the line has been launched. After you hang up the phone call, the app even shows your social networking IDs [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Instagram, an online photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service, introduced on October 18 on its main page pictures of Garosu-gil, a street in Seoul’s Gangnam famous for upscale clothiers, cafes, and restaurants, and said this is the place to find out the latest fashion trend in Seoul. Fashion [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a business of deleting online records of past is prospering as more people demand their right to be forgotten.* These service providers search and destroy private data spread on the Internet and help their clients set up “time bombs” on postings to self-detonate after a certain time [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The turnover rate for office workers is quickly on the rise. According to data published by the Korea Employers Federation last year, the percentage of newly hired workers with college degrees to quit within one year of employment has shot up to 23.6 percent from 15.7 percent in [...]
DAEGU, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2013 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the governments of North Gyeongsang Province and Pohang City, will be held for two days between October 19 and 20 at Pohang’s City Gymnasium. The event is sponsored by POSCO, the Korea [...]
GOYANG, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A city in Kazakhstan will replace all its street lights with LED lamps supplied by a Korean company. Save Semiconductor, a Korean manufacturer of environmentally friendly LED lighting devices, said on October 17 that it signed an agreement with HK E&E which in turn agreed to build an [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The NCsoft Cultural Foundation said on October 16 that it would release a new mobile game “Mobile Free Rice” free of charge, in commemoration of the World Food Day under the sponsorship of the United Nations World Food Program. The game allows the user to play quiz games [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Banila Co., Korea’s cosmetic company, will hold a special discount event to celebrate the eighth anniversary of company launching. It will start selling from October 18 a limited number of eight-item packages consisting of Clean-It Zero, Prime Primer Classic, the Secret Marbling Highlighter, Two Eyes Shadow, Style Eyeliner [...]