SEOUL, Korea, Jan 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The tourist police force, intended to protect foreign tourists visiting Korea and make their stay as pleasant and convenient as possible, has celebrated its 100th day anniversary since founding on January 23. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the National Police Agency, the Tourist Police [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Bookpal, the company specializing in smartphone-based mobile e-book services, announced on January 22 its 2013 book content download numbers. According to the company, the total number of e-book downloads during the year 2013 was 9 million, of which 2 million were paid contents. The number of page views on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of visitors to Korea through cruise boats is steadily on the rise. According to a survey by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization, the total number of foreign tourists coming to Korea via cruise ships in 2013 was over 700,000, up [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 21 (Korea Bizwire) – An automobile cluster town will be created by 2017 in the City of Goyang in the northwest of Seoul, featuring an auto theme park, car custom shops, an auto parts recycling center, a vocational school, and a museum. On January 20, representatives from the Provincial Government of Gyeonggi, Goyang [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government will hold a special sale event in which fashion items created by designers from the Seoul Fashion Creative Studio are offered at up to 90 percent discount. The event will be held at the Creative Studio’s showroom on the 4th floor of U-Us Building [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 20 (Korea Bizwire) – New animation series featuring homemade characters such as Ttobot and Robocar Poli will be soon released on TV, thanks to investment by domestic toymakers who will benefit from the release through merchandising deals. According to industry sources on January 17, RoiVisual, the creator of the Robocar Poli series, will [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 20 (Korea Bizwire) – There are some athletes who play better in international matches while putting up mediocre performance at home. In the same way, there are some car models that sell well overseas while selling fewer than 10,000 units domestically. The Kia Soul is one of such models. Last year, the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 16 (Korea Bizwire) - The duty-free shop “Airstar Avenue” of Incheon International Airport was chosen as the World’s Best Duty-free Shop for four consecutive years at “2013 Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Awards.” Incheon International Airport Corp. said this on January 15, adding that it won the honor at an award ceremony held in Los [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 16 (Korea Bizwire) - The Korean Intellectual Property Office said on January 15 that its DesignMap, a portal on design copyrights, has seen an increase of 36 percent in visitor numbers to 1.9 million last year. Comparing to 2009, the first year of the service, this is a 582-percent growth. DesignMap, a website created [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 15 (Korea Bizwire) - The Seoul Metropolitan City Government has replaced 100-watt sodium-vapor street lamps in 81 locations within the jurisdiction last year with 50-watt LED lights. The total number of light bulbs the city government changed was 6,382. A survey after the installation revealed that all 30 locations under investigation saw marked improvements [...]