SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SHINee, pronounced “shy-nee,” the five-member Korean boy group, has come back with the release on October 10 of a new music video “Everybody,” the title song of their fifth mini album. The title song is easy to sing along as it is a “complextro” genre song. The rhythm [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans have long believed that the most important thing in home building is harmony with the nature. They correctly thought houses built surrounding environmental conditions in mind can withstand natural elements better. For this reason, we Koreans boast tens of thousands of traditional houses still standing in this [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Congresswoman Kim Sang-hee (Democratic Party) revealed on October 10 based on a survey on 5,460 parents with schoolchildren that 71 percent of the kids get private tutoring before going to elementary school. The types of private education included home-study material subscription for the Korean language (58.3%), English lessons [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Kolon Sport unveiled a commercial featuring Jang Dong-gun and Tang Wei, the best-known male and female actors representing Korea and China respectively, for its new line of “Hestia” winter jacket line. The first installment of the commercial series began with Jang as the lead actor and Tang as [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – The second installment of Romanson’s commercial series featuring Yuna Kim has been out. In this latest commercial message on Romanson wristwatches, Yuna reveals her mystique with her intense gaze. The queen on the ice has been famous for showing off so many different sides of her attractiveness. She [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – The City of Gyeongju invites you to this ancient land with lots of natural beauties in October. Gyeongju is not just famous as the Shilla capital with Bulguk Temple and the Seokguram Grotto. It has so many places to visit for hikers and motorists. The Mujang Peak in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – In an era where more and more young people live alone, by some estimates as many as 4.5 million, there is an emerging trend toward sharing of housing space. For example, Lee Seung-tae, who is a student attending a university in northern part of Seoul, recently moved in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – “I love you, dear customer!”The 114 Directory Assistance operators have begun saying these greetings since 2007. Some customers responded to this rather unfamiliar salutation, “She loves me? That’s kind of awkward.” But some others took this more positively, “I could feel the effort to get closer to customers” [...]
“The ride to work in the morning is always full of suspense. It is the time for savoring human fragrance. (“Did you see how she dressed up today?) My colleagues are generous enough to give me valuable sartorial advice. How nice that my male colleagues want me to grow muscles? My boss thinks highly of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 02 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience stores, the super-clean shops selling every conceivable item from instant noodles to sanitary napkins 24 hours a day, have become fixtures of city streets in Korea since the early 1990s. Big convenience store franchisers such as CU, GS25, and Ministop have locations all over the country from Seoul [...]