SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – The city government of Seoul will begin a unique scheme to monitor the quality of “Arisu,” tap water supplied to Seoul citizens, through “water sommeliers” all across the city. Already in July, the city government hired 32 sommeliers who will be responsible for supervising the taste and smell of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – A new dating app is out for those young college students fed up with social dating services not up to their expectations. Created by students of Yonsei and Ewha Woman’s universities themselves, the app “Gil Hana Sai” (meaning “Just Across the Street”) requires verification of enrollment upon registration, giving [...]
POHANG, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – Pohang City has been so successful in supporting post-retirement job seekers that it is becoming a benchmark among several cities in Korea. Its market-driven characteristics are what made the projects gain much interest from job seekers and municipalities. One project, called ‘smiley shop,’ makes profit by collecting recyclable materials [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Hawzoom (www.haezoom.com), an online site specializing in solar energy, announce on September 2 that it has reorganized its main website to offer the information customers need by continuously adding additional services. ‘Haezoom,’ a site that helps the general public better understand photovoltaic energy and install solar panels correctly, opened [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently Korean consumers have been complaining that shoes from popular sneaker brands such as Nike, Adidas, and New Balance are unwashable. Consumers are having to wear dirty sneakers or throw them away despite the fact that sweat and dirt are unavoidable with sneakers because not only are a lot [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, Sept 03, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Looking for a parking space for hours at a busy shopping mall or being stuck on roads jammed with cars releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide are all-too-familiar scenes for city dwellers. A group of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently developed [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 03 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics (LG) announced that its washing machine (Model F14A8QDA) is the first in the global home appliance industry to receive the Water Footprint verification from Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an independent foundation that evaluates and certifies the performance of products across a wide variety of industries globally. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The fast fashion trend that has become widespread with the expansion of private labels is now spreading to even hanbok, or traditional Korean clothing, for infants and children. Compared to the past when parents were reluctant to splurge on, now more affordable hanbok for children are becoming more popular. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Library will provide a service on its website that lists the location, telephone number, and other information of more than 100 secondhand bookstores in Seoul after an overall survey of such bookstores in all 25 city districts. The city government of Seoul announced that it will [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Ok-Yunsun Invention and Design Group’ (www.okyunsun.com) announced that it has been granted a patent for its technology that enables people to use the calculator on the keypad of their cell phone without any particular steps. In the past, people have had to open specific applications for calculations [...]