SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2015 Jeju Fire Festival, a popular festival in which farmland is burned to kill weeds, wrapped up on March 8, after four days and 63 programs that were designed to demonstrate Jeju’s traditional pastoral culture. The grand burning, called ‘banggae,’ is a traditional agricultural and pastoral custom in Jeju. [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Caffe Bene, the top Korean coffee shop franchise, has chosen actor Kim Soo-Hyun as its global face, said the company on March 8. The company currently operates 1,500 shops in 12 countries. Kim Soo-Hyun has been chosen for his pan-Asian popularity, which will help Caffe Bene to make inroads in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) is going to run a demonstration project in a bid to promote fair payment customs for contract-awarding companies and software developers, according to a ministry statement from March 8. The ministry plans to apply rigorous rules to the process of awarding contracts [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A male crested ibis donated by Xi Jinping to Korea has succeeded in breeding, resulting in three new chicks from seven eggs, said the Ministry of Environment on March 8. Two male crested ibis, named Baishi and Jinsui, were donated to Korea in celebration of Korea and China’s successful inking of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government has postponed its plan to increase cigarette prices in tax-free stores, due to an increase in demand from Chinese tourists for Korean cigarettes, and a decrease in hoarding sprees that started with the cigarette price hike, according to an individual related to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A 10-meter-tall bundle of pine branches was set on fire on March 5 at Haeundae Beach in Busan, and 50,000 citizens gathered to see this spectacle, which was held as a moon-viewing event for Korea’s celebration of Daeboreum, the day of the first full moon of the year. Although the crowd could [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics has earned Certified Emission Reduction credits (CER) from its India operations, which correspond to about 7,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, approved by the UNFCCC. This is the first recognition for a home appliances company by the UNFCCC under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) —A Korean research team has discovered that rice bran has anti-obesity properties. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) and Chungbuk University research team led by Professor Lee Jun-Soo said on March 5 that a high-fat control group of laboratory mice and another group of mice injected with rice bran extract have [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Macallan, the single malt Scotch whisky company, has launched another 1,000 bottle limited edition Macallan, ‘Master of Photography 5,’ in collaboration with world famous fashion photographer Mario Testino. Testino chose Asian scenery for his photography that is featured in the limited edition box sets, for the first time in the ‘MOP [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor Cha Seung-Won is to be the new face of Coca-Cola’s Schweppes advertising. Cha is currently making a serious impact on Korean TV viewers with his cooking ability on a reality show entitled ‘Three Meals a Day-Sea Side Edition.’ Coca-Cola Korea said that the actor is loved for being a surprisingly [...]