SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean people can now conveniently give a donation to a politician they support through their smartphones. The Republic of Korea National Election Commission announced on November 17 that it would launch an application to allow citizens to directly make donations to politicians. The app called the “Smartphone Political Support [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Supermodel Kate Upton plans to come to South Korea on November 21 as a spokesmodel of Game of War: Fire Age. She is one of the top stars in the fashion, film and advertising industries. Game of War: Fire Age, one of the flagship titles created by United States [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Pucca will engage in public information campaign activities to promote Seoul to its citizens and tourists. It will introduce Seoul’s main attractions to foreign tourists as well. The Seoul metropolitan city government signed an agreement with Vooz which created the character Pucca on November 17 to jointly produce content [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning held a hearing on November 17 to introduce a public television home shopping channel, which is exclusively reserved for small businesses and farmers. The government plans to considerably lower a fee and dedicate 95 to 100 percent of programming for goods manufactured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The prosecutors’ office charged a man who circulated false information for the first time after it announced last September that it would respond harshly against spreading false rumors online. An investigation unit in the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office arrested and charged a former employee of CJ Group on November [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – WorkNet, a website providing employment information to job seekers on the Internet, jointly run by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Employment Information Service, causes controversies with its online content seemingly condoning and encouraging sexual abuse. The Korean Women’s Association United announced that the website has provided [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors announced that its models, the All New Carnival and the New Sorento, were awarded the grand prize in the Korea Color Awards organized by the Korea Society of Color Studies. Juries of the awarding committee stated, “Powder blue of the All New Carnival gives feeling of stability, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A “pickup artist” from the United States who was supposed to visit South Korea to give seminars cancelled his schedule as petitions against his entry have risen. Pickup artist Julien Blanc who has given abusive pickup technique lectures about how to harass, dehumanize and violate women was originally scheduled [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the number of periodontal disease patients has increased by a large margin since dental scaling has been included in items paid by the national health insurance plan. According to the National Health Insurance Service, based on insurance data related to gum inflammation and periodontal disease between [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Elevator Co. announced on November 13 that it would launch a new mobile application called HRTS 2.0, or Hyundai Real Time Service 2.0, to provide customers with convenient services. The application allows Hyundai Elevator customers to check and monitor all the Hyundai elevators 24/7 nationwide. The internet-based HRTS [...]