SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – C-JeS Entertainment announced on September 16 that the fans of Park Yoo-chun, a member of its Korean boy group JYJ, opened a library on Heuksan Island in South Jeolla Province. His fan club, “Blessing Yoo-chun,” built the second library named after the heartthrob to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Legoland Korea, a Lego-themed amusement park, is expected to create decent jobs in Gangwon Province. Gangwon Province and the Chuncheon city government signed an agreement with LL Development, a special-purpose corporation for Legoland Korea, Serveone, a service affiliate of LG Group, and Korea Employment Information Service, a state-run employment agency, [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) - LG Uplus, a Korean mobile network operator, announced that it launched unlimited call packages for the first time in the nation’s telecommunication industry. The call plan allows users to call both mobile phone users as well as home telephone users with no restriction, depending on the level of plans. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) - CJ Group staged its 5th “Friends of K-Culture” event on September 15 for expatriates in Korea who could enjoy first-hand taste of uniquely Korean dining and cuisine culture. Ten invitees including Thiao Poggio Padua, Brazilian ambassador to Korea, and Edit Csaba, wife of Hungarian ambassador to Korea, got a [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group has streamlined its Intranet “My Single” as part of its new catchphrase, so-called the “Mach management,” which values the faster speed in operation. The previous system was not that effective in communicating with each other. It is reported that a total of 425,000 employees of Samsung make 486 [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Health Insurance Service in Korea analyzed 109,028,689 cases of big data on public health information from 2002 to 2013 to find out the proportion of Class I and Class II obesity occurrence in terms of gender and age. Up to now, it is hard to tell how many [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Along with the Korean government’s recent announcement to raise the cigarette price by 2,000 won, or about US$2, from January next year, it also said on September 14 that a plan to hike a tobacco product price would be implemented in line with the rise of consumer prices in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a report on depression of Korean adults published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Korea, 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of Korean adults over 19 have experienced depression within the last year. In terms of gender, 16.5 percent of women have suffered from [...]
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SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Levi’s® brand launches the ‘Live in Levi’s Project’ as part of its multifaceted global brand campaign “Live in Levi’s®.” The ‘Live in Levi’s Project’ is a digital platform that serves to engage and activate the expansive global community of Levi’s® fans around their shared experiences. The intention of [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea National Tourism Organization announced on September 14 that it expected more than 160,000 Chinese travelers would visit Korea during the Chinese National Day from October 1 through 7, which is 35 percent up from 118,000 visitors last year. The number of Chinese tourists to Korea from January [...]