SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 25 (Korea Bizwire) – What is ‘Energy Consulting?’ It is a consulting service recently launched by the Seoul City government and Korea Telecom to help apartment residents reduce their electric bills. Teams of consultants visit apartments on demand and conduct technical, structural and administrative analysis on actual conditions of energy use [...]
GOYANG, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a book titled “You Can Peek into Our Children’s Mind If You Watch Movies with Them” is gaining attention among parents. The book, written by an elementary school teacher, argues that movie watching can be an excellent tool for kids to learn as well as to [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Metro will provide hot soup with rice for those subway passengers who go to work on an empty stomach. As part of a campaign to raise awareness on the importance of good, hearty meal in the morning, Seoul Metro, the company operating Seoul’s subway lines No. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans in their 40s made 42 percent of purchases of e-book readers, according to a recent survey on ‘Biscuit Tab’ buyers by Interpark, Korea’s online shopping mall. The Biscuit Tab is Interpark’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle, running on Android. And for what purpose did these 40s purchase [...]
JEJU, South Korea, Sept 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC), Seoul National University Hospital and Greenland Group signed an MOU on September 13 at Jeju Science Park. Under the agreement, the hospital and Greenland Group will develop medical facilities, including a medical check-up center and a special clinic, as part [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The so-called “black consumer” is a major headache for retailers and companies making consumer goods. Recently a discount store in Seoul had a run-in with a middle-aged woman who claimed that she lost something she stored four months ago in a locker inside the store. She threw [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Social enterprise “Weenu” will hold a second “Art-up Seoul Festival” for two days between September 28 and 29 at Yoido’s riverbank park. The festival features a hundred artworks created from recycled electronic parts. Last September, Weenu had kicked off the first event with a theme of toys [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 16 (Korea Bizwire) – People lining up at train stations for tickets home may be one of the most universal urban landscapes all around the world in holiday seasons. People spend their precious time on the road to have long-anticipated family reunions. Koreans are no exception in this. September, the month in which [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 16 (Korea Bizwire) – We are seeing so many comments by the world’s famous economists and top market analysts that the Korean economy is doing so well. The Wall Street Journal said on August 28, “Korea is the winner amid the emerging market turmoil.” JPMorgan chief economist Michael Feroli also said on September [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 16 (Korea Bizwire) – How many cups of coffee a day is just right for you? This is a question you have asked so many times and health professionals all around the world have tried to answer to no avail. It is not so easy for anyone to count her caffeine intake whenever [...]