SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Mapo Oil Depot, located on the hill of Mt. Maebong in Mapo in the west of Seoul and used as oil reserves in the 1970s, is reborn as the “Cultural Depot Park.” The Seoul Metropolitan city government has planned to transform the oil depot to a new cultural place, holding [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Shin Dong-bin, CEO of Lotte Group, the leading food and shopping mall operator, highlighted on August 25 that the company should focus on “omni-channel retailing strategies” which allow customers to shop with the same retailer through different channels including mobile Internet devices, computers and brick-and-mortar stores. “In order to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SM Entertainment, a huge entertainment agency that gave birth to K-pop, announced that it launched SuperStar SMTown, a mobile rhythm game on Google Play. The game is packed with songs sung by K-pop stars such as BOA, TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, FX and EXO. Players complete the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the most popular portal site in South Korea, announced on August 22 that it would launch a mobile web service called Musician League, an open platform for musicians, which makes mobile users now listen to new songs and communicate with musicians through the platform. The company has applied [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – After the Seoul Metropolitan city government designated 638 convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day as safety protection spots for women, more and more women have used the places in emergency situations. Earlier on February 25, in cooperation with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the city government signed an agreement [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration has set up a database of which plant on green roofs is most effective at reducing pollution and saving energy, based on which the administration created a system to measure the energy saving level for buildings. The administration has selected 100 species of vegetation for roof [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix employees are expected to receive the greatest pay raises ever as its performance hit the record this year. Acquired by SK Group, the company has gotten huge investment in production facilities and R&D under an adverse semiconductor market condition, which leads to its great performance. SK Hynix announced [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected to meet decorated buses with the main characters of the famous Korean cartoon series “Tayo the Little Bus” moving its eyes from side to side. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 20th that the mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, asked a division in charge of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Public Broadcasting DMB Commission announced on August 19 that, among video application net users, 1,764 used YouTube and 1,438 used DMB, based on a survey from January 2014 to July conducted by Nielsen KoreanClick. It means that Korea’s smartphone users mostly use YouTube and DMB video apps. Only [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese actress Tang Wei and Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong left for their honeymoon to the U.S. after their wedding in Hong Kong. Korea Dispatch, an entertainment news media on the Internet, reported on August 19 that the newlyweds went to Los Angeles for their honeymoon. On July 12, earlier than [...]