SEOUL, Korea, Jan 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the revelation that Samsung Group would hire college graduates by allowing university presidents to recommend top-performing students to the group, university presidents belonging to the Korea Council for University Education will respond to the decision of the nation’s biggest business conglomerate in a collective manner. Suh Geo-seok, chairman [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Statistical Office announced on January 27 the “six promising consumer trends of 2014″ based on consumer and social data, which included the digital erasing job, thrifty wedding planning, marketing for middle-aged women, items for long-distance couples, pet caring services, and community-based business. With more and more people [...]
![[Kobiz Infographics] Forgot Your Phone Number? You Might Suffer from “Digital Dementia”](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/디지털치매-썸네일.jpg "[Kobiz Infographics] Forgot Your Phone Number? You Might Suffer from “Digital Dementia”")
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A reported surge in “digital dementia” has attracted many smartphone users’ interest here in Korea as the typical symptoms of “digital dementia” seem quite exactly applicable to their individual cases: failing to remember everday details like their phone numbers. According to a survey done by Do It Survey, one third [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean-American town will finally be built in Songdo’s international business district. In a 386,000-square-meter site, the 49-story building will host 830 apartment units, 1,974 offices, 312 hotel rooms, and amenities. Currently the management company is selling the units to foreign nationals of Korean descent residing in the United [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 27 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones are ubiquitous and more and more wearable computing devices are available on the market, the number of patent applications related to smart glasses is rapidly on the rise. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the number of smart glasses patents applied in 2009 was 29, followed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Interpark, Korea’s major online retailer, has launched on January 23 a new service called “Dynamic Price,” in which customers can bid prices from as low as 0 won for one item a day from 7 am to 12 midnight every day. The service is available both on its mobile [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s major talent management companies are transforming themselves into full-fledged entertainment groups. The pioneer in this move was SM Entertainment. In May 2012, the company changed its corporate name to SM C&C after acquiring a travel agency. In November in the same year, the newly named company took over [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Yangpyeong-dong area in southwestern Seoul, the home to now-defunct smokestack factory buildings, is slowly turning into an outlet shopping district. ArounZ, a large-scale outlet mall specializing in everything about coffee, from coffee beans from all across the world to coffee-making equipment and ingredients, is one of them. The [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile gift certificates are threatening to dethrone paper-based certificates and coupons. According to industry sources on January 23, Outback Steakhouse said the mobile gift sales volume last year surpassed that of paper gift certificates for the first time since its debut in 2009. The sales amount of its mobile [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Photo exhibits held since late last year have become mega hits attracting more than 100,000 visitors. For example, “A Centennial Retrospective of Robert Capa” and “The Life Photography Exhibition” during October and November logged in 117,000 and 104,000 admissions, respectively. The “Let’s Celebrate Youth” exhibition running between November last [...]