SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Even though more and more Koreans enjoy outdoor activities such as sports outside and camping, it is hard for them to find proper facilities for those activities. For instance, while Gyeonggi Province, adjacent to Seoul, has more than 5,000 community baseball teams, it has only less than 100 ballparks. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics hires new software programmers by evaluating only their programming skills, not other qualifications such as college records, results of English tests or background information in the fall hiring season. The electronic company announced on September 3 that it plans to hold a programming competition named “LG Code Challenger.” [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Able C&C, which owns cosmetic brands Missha and A’pieu, is riding high thanks to Peng Liyuan, the first lady in China. When Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party in China, and she visited Korea, she bought the “BB Cream,” a kind of blemish balm invented in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Iittala, a Finnish design brand, plans to open its first retail store at Lotte Department Store Yeongdeungpo in Seoul in September 2014 to expand the brand in the Korean market. Iittala, founded in 1881, is a Scandinavian design brand specializing in glassware. The Finnish company operates more than 200 [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment announced on September 2 that the company started to put forth its utmost effort to lead the global game market with its mobile game, Zombie Virus. In the game, players can conquer a virtual world by spreading zombie viruses to all over the world. The game launched through [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display will hold a 2014 Future Display Idea contest named “Imagine Your Display.” Anyone who attends universities or graduate schools with groundbreaking ideas can apply for the contest until November 9. A first prize winner and two runner-ups will be announced at the beginning of December, winning 3 [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) knuckles down to turning 64 islands among 180 islands in Korea into archipelagos of creating self-reliance energy. In these islands populated by hundreds to thousands residents, diesel generators have produced electricity. Since demand for it is much less than cities, the cost of electricity [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – JobKorea, a job search website in Korea, announced that it polled 1,511 college students and recent grads to learn what company they would like to work for. Of the top-ten choices, Samsung Electronics was the sole outlier among male students while CJ CheilJedang was the one among female participants. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Heavy Industries stares a strike in the face for the first time in 20 years. The labor union of Hyundai Heavy Industries refused to negotiate with the management of the company in the 35th negotiation session on September 1. The union demanded a 132,013 won, or 6.51 percent, increase [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Ladies’ Code, a Korean K-pop girl group, was involved in a fatal car accident in the morning of September 3. EunB, 21, one of the five members, was killed. Other members, Rise and SoJung, suffered severe injuries, while the other members, Asheley and Zuny sustained minor injuries. It is [...]