SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the largest portal site in South Korea, held a conference on the mobile business for advertisers and marketers to share best practices in its service sector. It unveiled a new advertising service, the user interface for search ads optimized for mobile devices, a new platform for off-line businesses [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean national parks are globally certified as one of the well-managed top protected areas. Three national parks including Mt. Jiri, Mt. Seorak and Mt. Odae will be put on the Green List at the sixth World Parks Congress 2014 in Sydney, Australia, from November 12 to 19 hosted by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – BMW Korea gave Korea drivers a first look at the sports activity coupe New X6 at its BMW driving center in Incheon. A total of three types are planned to be released, all of which are the second-generation New X6 models, the xDrive30d and the xDrive40d, as well as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Expensive luxury goose down jackets came to be discovered that they were actually filled with duck down, not pricier goose down. When Consumer Research, a CN Media company, surveyed a total of 25 down jackets, among which 16 items were from eight imported premium brands and nine products were [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The rate of marriage and divorce among multiracial families has decreased. The birth rate for them has declined as well. The number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign partners stood at 26,948 in 2013, down 7.8 percent compared with the previous year, according to a study called the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Shinsegae Group announced on November 18 that it launched a toy library in Kwanyang traditional market in Gyeonggi Province. The library, which is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility activities, lends toys to children at the age of seven or younger free of charge and gives parents counselling for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean parents want their children to become public officials, though they think entrepreneurship is important for our society, according to a Korea Economic Research Institute study surveying 2,000 Korean adults. When respondents were asked what kind of job they or their children would like to have, 34 percent answered [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Just as Chinese investors have increasingly invested in the Korean healthcare market, Korean companies are preparing to aggressively enter the Chinese medical market. The All H&B, the Korean organizer of a medical complex to be built in China, announced on November 18 that it signed an agreement with the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Greenland Group, China’s largest real estate developer, is in talks to acquire a site near the Digital Media Center in Seoul’s Sangam-dong in the northwest following its buying spree in Jeju Island, reported the Seoul Economic Daily on November 18. By quoting an official of the Seoul metropolitan city [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Financial Services Commission announced on November 18 its financial plan for the two Koreas’ reunification called “Korea’s Reunification & Financial Policy Task.” The Unification Finance Task Force, teamed up with the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Ministry of Unification and other research institutes, have studied for the last [...]