SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Samsung “Gear S,” the latest smart wearable device launched on November 5 by Samsung Electronics, has been sold more than 10,000 on the first day. Sold through SK Telecom and KT, the Gear S saw its blue color models run out on the first day and the white [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – To marketers, celebrities are a good opportunity to accelerate their brand image because consumers often misunderstand that the goods are equal to the celebrities who wear or use them. The delusion almost always drives up huge sales of the merchandise. That is why a wide range of products are [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO announced on November 6 that it launched KP SE, a social enterprise in Cilegon, Indonesia, on the 4th. The POSCO Foundation and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) jointly established the enterprise supported by Krakatau POSCO which has a lot of management experience. The Korea’s steel maker will outsource tasks [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dispersed medical records in many medical institutions will be integrated in a personal smartphone in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on November 6 that it started to develop an ICT Healing Platform Service, which allows a patient to gather scattered medical records from hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently a 25-year-old male college student committed suicide by jumping off a building because of phishing. Last August, a 30-year-old man also killed himself for the same reason. The mobile swindle which forced two young men into a corner is called “naked video-chatting phishing.” When a man runs a [...]
TOKYO, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today the establishment of a new showroom within the headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric Automation Korea Co., Ltd. (MEAK), a wholly owned Mitsubishi Electric Group subsidiary based in Seoul that handles sales and service of factory automation (FA) products in Republic of Korea. The showroom will open [...]
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) recently celebrated Global Week of Service, the company’s worldwide annual volunteer event. Now in its third year, the company’s largest expression of community service included more than 3,500 projects designed to address the social, economic and environmental needs in 86 countries. Global Week of Service provides [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture has installed on November 6 a giant public artwork called “Mr. Gibro” (meaning “to donate” in Korean) at Seoul Plaza in front of the Seoul City Hall in celebration of the opening of the “Art Seoul, Donate Together” event. The artwork, created [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Campgrounds in South Korea will from now on receive grades as hotels would, depending on their quality as too many campsites have sprouted up. The Korea National Park Service announced that it would rate all campsites in Korea on a scale of 1 to 4. Infrastructure, safety, sanitation and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The BMW i8, a plug-in hybrid sports car, will make its official debut in South Korea early next year, which will be the first plug-in hybrid model running on the Korean roads. With its futuristic exterior design, the i8 boasts powerful performances: a total of 362 horsepower and 58.2 [...]