SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumer confidence in South Korea fell in the third quarter, a survey conducted by Nielsen showed on November 6. According to the survey results, South Korean consumers were quite pessimistic. Their consumer confidence stood at 57th among 60 countries around the world, declining by one point to 52 compared with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Cheil Worldwide swept two prominent advertising competitions in China, rising as one of the outstanding advertising agencies in the Chinese market. Korea’s top ad agency announced on November 5 that it was selected as the Best Creative Agency of the Year at the ROI Festival, winning 14 medals including eight [...]
REDWOOD, Calif. Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – C3 Energy has joined the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Trade and Development Agency in major trade missions to drive discussions around smart grid technology globally. Most recently, C3 Energy participated in a trade mission to meet with electricity and gas utilities and senior government officials in Japan [...]
Barack Obama Remains at No. 2 Spot On 6th Annual List, Plus An Exclusive Inside Look at the Fall of Tinder CEO and the Crazy Saga of Tinder, the World’s Hottest NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 1) takes the top spot out of 72 on Forbes’ sixth annual ranking of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean children and young people are less satisfied with their lives compared with the youths in other OECD countries, according to an actual condition survey on children and young people in South Korea published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Korean children and young people rated their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Corning Inc. plans to invest 900 billion won, or about US$835.6 million, to increase its production volume in South Korea. It will also invest another 10 billion won to establish a research and development center in Korea for the first time. Corning announced on November 4 that its CEO Wendell [...]
Shanghai, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd. (the “Company”, or “Hanwha SolarOne”), a top-10 global photovoltaic manufacturer of high-quality, cost-competitive solar modules, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Yantai Municipal Bureau of Commerce (“YMBC”) to establish a long-term strategic partnership with the aim to develop distributed generation (DG) PV [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2014 Seoul Jazz Wonderland being held in Seoul almost reaches the peak. The six-month-long music festival which runs from July 19 through December 27 has now entered into the second season. The music festival consists of three seasons, each of which is held for two months with different [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest portal site in South Korea, plans to continue to operate a pilot scheme of “task-oriented free work schedule” until the end of this year. The company announced on November 3 that it would prolong the scheme with the goal of implementing an official flexible work-hour plan [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on November 3 that it recently built a Daewoong Pharmaceutical Liaoning laboratory as part of an effort to establish a global network. The lab is under Liaoning Baifeng, a Shenyang-based drug manufacturer the Korean company acquired in August 2013. The newly-built lab located in the Benxi Economic [...]