SEOUL, Korea, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment said it would officially launch “Football Day,” the proprietary soccer simulation mobile game, from December 29. With this game, fantasy soccer game fans won’t have to rush to their desktop computer to manage their team and instead use their smartphone device anywhere anytime. The game has been [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C, an SK Group company specializing in IT services such as IT consulting, outsourcing, system integration, and system maintenance, will accelerate its move into the big-data market in the new year. The company said this on December 29, adding its 50-person big data task force would be expanded [...]
SUWON, Korea, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gyeonggi provincial government and Gyeonggi Tourism Organization said on December 27 that its ecological learning programs offered in the demilitarized zone such as the “DMZ Eco-culture Classroom” and the “DMZ Experience Program” have won official seals of approval by the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Software developer Planet 8 and e-payment solution provider PayGate said on December 27 that they would jointly launch “PayGate WooPay,” a payment module optimized for WooCommerce, an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system. The [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Son Dambi, dubbed the “female Rain,” made her third digital single album “Red Candle” debut in celebration of this Christams Eve. Son Dambi poses for an enchanting actress with a flamboyant outfit and makeup in a flood of flashlights. She is chased by a crowded of photographers shouting [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said on December 26 that Gwanak-Shinsa Market (located at 58 74th Road, Nangok-ro, Gwanak District) earned the first “Green Traditional Market” designation. The designation is given by the city government to traditional markets that adopt solar panels for their energy needs while eliminating [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 27 (Korea Bizwire) – As more and more schools adopt smart devices for instructional purposes, the “PingPong” app, the educational tool developed by Waterbear Soft, is gaining attention of late. The software developer has so far come up with more than 300 learning apps and the latest app is highly useful for [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – As part of an effort to promote the value of Hangul (Korean written language system), Korea’s largest online portal Naver has helped small business owners install Hangul sign posts, the company said on December 24. The company had begun the campaign in October to take applications and selected [...]
JEJU, Korea, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Hello Kitty Island, the globally popular character Hello Kitty-themed playground in Jeju’s Seoguipo, held the “World’s Happiness Christmas” event on December 24. The charity event was intended to entertain the 15 children from a nearby village of Ahndeok who arrived at the playground in a bus, attended an [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning and the state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said on December 23 that they have opened a new business incubation center called “Job Creation Lab.” Located on the lobby floor of the fusion tech R&D center within Daedeok Innopolis, or [...]