SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – On the “2013 Day for Prevention of Suicide” on September 10, the Ministry of Health & Welfare held a variety of events including publication of the recommendations on media suicide reporting. Minister of Health & Welfare Chin Young said in a keynote speech at the commemoration event held at [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a research report “International Comparison of Housing Prices and Implications for Korea” published on September 10 by KB Financial Group’s Management Research Institute, the total value of real estate held by Korea’s households as of the end of 2012 was about US$5 trillion, 436 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced a plan to set nationally adopted standards for physical strength and fitness and encourage companies to use them for hiring and promotion. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism said on September 2 that it has unveiled a new “People’s Physical Fitness 100″ certification program. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Energizer Korea said on September 8 that it held the previous day a tree-planting event at Haneul “Sky” Park near the Seoul World Cup Stadium in west Seoul. As part of a wider campaign “That’s Positive Energy” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and green the environment, the company [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Upcoming September 8 is the 48th International Literacy Day as proclaimed by UNESCO in 1965. To commemorate the anniversary, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris will hold a variety of events to remind us of the importance of literacy and adult education. One of such events will be a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the fall tourism peak season, the Seoul city government will seek to encourage homeowners to rent out their extra rooms to foreign tourists visiting the city. The city’s policy makers expect that the measure would relieve the problem of hotel room shortages while at the same [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean consumers are happy with their money spent on cultural and leisure activities, but they also feel pressed by increasing cost of food. The Korea Consumer Agency released the annual report on consumption behaviors among Korean adults for 2013. According to the report, Korean consumers rated their general [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 05 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s electric utility KEPCO, jointly with the Seoul city government and the Korea Environment Corp., said on September 5 that it would begin allowing electric car drivers to use high-speed rechargers owned by the three organizations. The three entities had agreed in March this year to share the recharging [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 05 (Korea Bizwire) – From narrow, steep alleyways in hillside shanty towns to backstreets with rows of centuries-old traditional houses, Seoul has many faces hidden from public view. But these are exactly where you can find and hear life stories of real Seoulites. The Seoul Design Foundation said on September 5 that it [...]
KWANGJU, South Korea, Sept 05 (Korea Bizwire) – Are you interested in buying someone else’s brilliant idea and making business out of it? A Korean company is helping start-up planners find patented goods, designs, and ideas easy and fast online. Ok-yunsun Invention & Design Group is composed of professional inventors, designers, engineers, professors, consultants, patent agents, and [...]