SEOUL, Korea, Oct 25 (Korea Bizwire) – As of early October this year, the average “jeonse” price of apartments within the Metropolitan Seoul area has surpassed the 200-million-won level for the first time. Jeonse is a uniquely Korean, as well as Japanese, home lease scheme by which tenants pay a lump-sum deposit of typically 50-70 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 25 (Korea Bizwire) – “The Larvas,” the homegrown animation popular among children and adults alike has appeared on a public campaign run by the Ministry of Environment. The Larvas were born after years of development effort to create unique cartoon characters that never existed before elsewhere. The funny-looking characters “Red” and “Yellow” [...]
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SEOUL, Korea, Oct 24, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – According to results of a survey conducted by job portal Career.com on 422 career women, the average time it takes for them to put on makeup before leaving home for work was 32 minutes. As many as 64 percent of respondents answered that they do it before leaving [...]
Hey Mr. Lee, I dream everyday It’s an amazing dream That I don’t want to wake up from I’m so dizzy I feel like I am going crazy Your presence makes me excited. SEOUL, Korea, Oct 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s female pop singer Park Ji-Yoon released a music video of the title song [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Korea’s train passengers during the first six months this year has risen 45.3 percent from the same period last year. According to the state-run Korea Railroad Corp., the number of train passengers during the first half of this year was 628,389, up from 432,575. Thanks [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Commercials portraying families and love among the members are always received well. With family-themed messages especially featuring small children, you don’t need top celebrities or high-priced idol stars to promote your goods and services. The “Dad Is Talking on the Phone” commercial by LG U+ is one such [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Today’s is the world in which ideas rule the roost. The same product or service can improve its value significantly if an interesting idea can be added to it. This is more so in the area of marketing. At a time when so many companies are languishing in [...]
Two positive ideas meet, collide, and combine into a new, bigger idea. This is where true creativeness begins. It doesn’t matter if they seek different ways or have opposing aims. It is good as long as they are positive in their outlook on the future. Be positive more often and let more good ideas meet [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “Webtoons,” animated comic strips distributed through the web, have been getting increasing attention by Korea’s content makers as a promising future source of income. Some of the webtoon contents were already exported to overseas publishers. The Korea Contents Agency, in partnership with Internet portal company Naver, set up [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Late last year LG Electronics Netherlands released a YouTube commercial “So Real It’s Scary” about its IPS monitor and succeeded in logging in 16 million clicks. The video showed scenes in which LG technicians installed displays on the bottom of an elevator and passengers afterward were panicked to [...]