GUMI, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station. Likewise, an OLEV tram does not require pantographs to feed power from [...]
JEJU, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The 6th annual ‘Jeju Haenyeo Festival’ will be hosted at the Haenyeo Museum and adjacent seaside at Gujw Village on Jeju Island from October 12 to 13. This year’s festival, hosted by the Jeju Special Self-governing Province and organized by the ‘Committee for the Jeju Haenyeo Festival,’will be a unique [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Community Rehabilitation Center announced that it will hold a training session for ‘Water Dance,’ a type of underwater exercise for the first time in Korea at the center. The center, established in 1997, is Korea’s first specialized institution for underwater rehabilitation and offers various services and programs for [...]
NEW YORK, August 7, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled its latest flagship smartphone LG G2, the first smartphone introduced under LG’s new “G” Series for premium devices, exemplifying LG’s aim to bring forth more customer-centric innovations. Nearly 700 guests from over 30 countries converged at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, [...]
Bucheon, Korea, August 08 (Korea Bizwire) – If you’re a Jew, you will be quite surprised about South Korea’s enthusiasm about everything Jewish. South Koreans, aware of their small territory and its lack of natural resources, have always stressed the importance of human resources which is often stated as ‘the only resource we’ve got’ by Koreans. Thus [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 08 (Korea Bizwire) – With the recent heat wave and heavy rainfall vegetables prices have skyrocketed. Now more people are growing their own vegetables on apartment balconies and other available places within the city. The rise of ‘balcony farmers’ has led to an increase in seeds and culture soil sales, and books on how [...]
Incheon, Korea, August 8, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Smile Banner System announced on August 6 that it has developed a ‘Smartphone System to Protect Parking Rights of the Disabled’ which allows people to report illegally parked cars in spaces reserved for the handicapped through smartphones, and will be signing agreements with local governments for nationwide [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, August 07, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Asian biomass markets are witnessing profound shifts in trade and feedstocks sourcing with South Korea and Japan setting the pace for China, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. The Korean RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard) and the Japanese feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for biomass have been important enablers of biomass trade [...]
JEJU, SOUTH KOREA, August 07, 2013 (Korea Bizwire ) – The Jeju Global Education City (JGEC) project, which has helped fuel the ‘studying in Jeju’ boom as an alternative to studying abroad, will be extended and dramatically altered, including adjustment of the number of schools to have campuses in the city. The Korean government recently [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 06 (Korea Bizwire) – When talking CCTV cameras were first introduced in London boroughs in 2008, controversies arose about Big Brother watching and scolding you. However, citizens residing in bleak districts were not necessarily uncomfortable with the idea of talking cameras. They were rather happy of the upside factor of talking cameras, [...]