SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gangnam District Office opened a K-Star themed art toy street on March 12. The street is 400-meters long, and is adorned with art toys inspired by K-stars such as SNSD and EXO. Korean designer team DUCOBI, UK born illustrator Jon Burgerman, Korean illustrator JunkHouse and graffiti artist Artime Joe have [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean researchers have developed a new cement-producing technology using reduced iron and steel slag. The Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) and the R&D Center for Valuable Recycling announced on March 11 that they have succeeded in producing rapid-hardening cement from metal slag reduced during the scrap metal recycling process, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Well-known hotel chains are increasingly planning to open business hotels in Seoul, creating additional competition in the hospitality industry. Accor, the global hotel group that operates 16 properties in Korea, has opened a business hotel, Ibis Style Ambassador Seoul, in Myeongdong. The company is planning to open two more Ibis Style [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean whiskey market, which has been trending downwards since the late 2000s, is aiming to bounce back by introducing low alcohol spirits with various scents and flavors. According to the industry officials on March 10, Diageo Korea, Korea’s largest whiskey provider in terms of market share, will enter the low [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The US Embassy drew strong opposition from Korean journalists by searching their possessions without consent before a press conference featuring Ambassador Mark Lippert, which took place prior to his discharge from Severance Hospital. On March 10, staffers from the US Embassy searched through belongings left by reporters and journalists in the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean audiences are preparing to meet Elsa and Anna in theaters again, as Disney is set to release ‘Frozen Fever,’ a short sequel to ‘Frozen’, which attracted more than 10 million moviegoers in Korea. The short film will be released on March 19, and will play ahead of ‘Cinderella.’ Walt Disney [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Samsung Bioepis will be the third Korean company to manufacture and distribute biosimilar products. The company confirmed that its ‘SB4′ Enbrel biosimilar drug has advanced into regulatory review for manufacturing and marketing by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), according to an announcement on March [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — What does ‘Korea’ remind global citizens of? According to a 2014 survey conducted by the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange (KOFICE) on 5,600 citizens from 14 countries, 17.2 percent of the respondents answered that K-pop is the first thing that came to mind when they thought of Korea. This is [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Organizers from the 2015 Goesan International Organic Expo plan to exhibit artificially-hatched longtail tadpole shrimps at the event, which is coordinated by the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research and Goesan-gun, and scheduled to take place in September. Longtail tadpole shrimps, considered a living fossil due to their almost unchanged morphology [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean farm has succeeded in growing an exotic succulent plant originating from South Africa. The nutritious vegetable is called ficoïde glaciale, or ice plant, and is known to be a difficult plant to be sown on Korean soil. Jang Jong-Geun, head of Jingsung Farm in Ocheon-eup, Pohang, failed many times [...]