SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Ban Seung-ho, the principal of Jung-hwa High School in northeastern Seoul under the jurisdiction of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, has published his second single album “People on the Road,” following the first one “Let’s Begin again” three years ago. He said he is doing it to give [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – King, the cross-platform casual game developer famous for the wildly popular game “Candy Crush Saga,” said on September 13 that it has launched a KakaoTalk version of the game “Candy Crush Saga for Kakao.” This is a meaningful move for King as KakaoTalk has more than 110 million users [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Nine out of ten Facebook users in Korea get access to Facebook through their smartphones and tablet computers, according to a recent announcement by Facebook. This incredibly high number is not surprising given 78.5 percent of Koreans use smartphones in the 2011-2012 period, according to a report from the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Android decorating application Dodolpop integrates K-POP video ringtones and alarm sound including the contents of Infinite, f(x), and EXO. CampMobile, a company specialized in developing android decorating application, released a K-POP video ringtone and alarm customizing tool named Dodolpop. After its launch, Dodolpop is gaining popularity around the world. [...]
DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – With a rich history of 2,000 years, Gyeongju is heading for the European cultural city of Istanbul. The Province of Gyeongsangbuk-Do (Governor Kim Kwan Yong) will be in Istanbul Aug. 31-Sept. 22 for the Istanbul-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2013 convening in the cultural capital of Istanbul. The Expo [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately the hiring practice of major corporations in the private and public sector is shifting toward evaluating the applicant’s comprehensive abilities including aptitude, attitude, character, and relationship, away from simple appraisal based on test scores and a list of manufactured experiences. For example, Small and Medium Business Corp. and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on September 12 that it has launched a new rate scheme “T LifePack” that allows smartphone users to watch videos up to 140 hours a month. At 9,000 won a month, T LifePack plan subscribers can use 62-gigabytes of data a month (about 2 gigabytes a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a dictum in the information technology industry that digital data never die once created. This is true because data, no matter how many times you press the “delete” button in your file explorer screen and send the file to the trash can, reside somewhere in your computer. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor said on September 11 that it would provide unlimited music content to ten schools for hearing-impaired children to which it had donated its “Sonata touchable music seat” systems. As part of a wider CSR program “Sonata the Brilliant Sound Project” to offer beautiful music sounds to deaf [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – An American TV series ‘Gilmore Girls’ was a huge success all around the world. The series follows a story of a teenage girl and ups and downs of her life and her friends. One of her closest friends is a Korean-American girl whose mother is undeniably a devout Christian. [...]