SEOUL, Korea, Oct 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A YouTube commercial video of TicketMonster featuring Sam Hammington, a New Zealand-born Australian comedian and TV personality made famous by reality show Real Men in Korea, has logged in more than 1 million clicks since posting on October 27. Advertising execs said this is one of the funniest commercials [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Bacchus, the non-carbonated energy drink brand famous for showing commercials featuring ordinary people and their lives, has recently launched a new series “Being [Someone] in Korea.” The first of the series is about “Being an Ajumma in Korea.” Ajumma is a mildly derogatory term for married women. Early in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Most women may have had an experience of regretting their decision to buy an expensive make-up product after a few days of use. In 2011 alone, Korea’s women spent 10.8 trillion won on cosmetics, up 9.6 percent from the previous year. Still not many of them use a cosmetic [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Galaxy Threw a Curve. Samsung Electronics has unveiled on October 10 the Galaxy Round with the world’s first flexible display. The specs of the Galaxy Round are almost identical to those of the Galaxy Note 3 including a 2.3-GHz Quad-core application processor. But the Round is 0.4 mm [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Hyung-Soo, better known by his stage name K.Will, has come back to us with his fourth mini album “Will in Fall.” The title song “You Don’t Know Love” in the album is already gaining popularity for its portrayal of two distraught lovers who just broke up. The [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 28 (Korea Bizwire) – How well, or badly, is Korea doing in terms of statistical numbers? By the early 2010s, this country of 50 million population has become one of the world’s top nations in terms of manufacturing prowess. When it comes to national brand image, global brand value, and trade volume, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will join hands with Ferrandi Paris, the state-run French School of Culinary Arts, to create a “Samsung Kitchen Class” fully equipped with Samsung’s kitchen appliances and teach students how to prepare gourmet dishes. To that end, Samsung’s CE Division chief Yoon Boo-keun and Ferrandi Paris president [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile communications service provider, held on October 26 a promotional event for older customers in their 50s and 60s “Bravo Happy Train.” Under this program, the company picked 180 customers through a raffle and gave away 360 free train tickets, including those for the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign residents living in Seoul are actively participating in volunteer activities sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan City Government. The Seoul Global Center, a city government organization established to support foreigners in the city, said on October 25 that it has signed on a total of 738 foreign nationals [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 27 (Korea Bizwire) – “Ondol,” is considered one of the three major traditional inventions representing Korea. Also called “gudeul,” the ondol heating system uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor, although today wood-fired heating was replaced by hot-water pipes. AOG System, a company specializing [...]