SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville has opened its first Tous Les Jours store in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, said the company on March 3. The bakery is located on the first floor of a landmark department store in Xinjiang’s capital city of Ürümqi, and saw more than 1,000 customers on its [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s increasing FDI has resulted in the dissolution of 24,000 domestic high-quality jobs per year, according to a Hyundai Research Institute (HRI) report published on March 3. A researcher from the institute said that Korean companies need to invest at least 3.4 billion dollars annually in Korea to maintain its domestic [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Several white-tailed sea eagles left Namdaecheon Stream in the south of Gangneung city, which has been their wintering ground from last December, and headed towards to the Northern hemisphere on March 2. White-tailed sea eagles are classified as a category 1 endangered species in Korea. They were designated as natural monument [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Red Bull held a paper plane flying competition at Konkuk University in Seoul on March 2, to select a Korean national team to participate at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final 2015 in Austria. The competitors launched their own constructed paper planes for three tests: Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Korea has been selected as Korean job seekers’ number one dream work place for seven consecutive years, according to a survey conducted by job portal Saramin. According to results published on March 2, 43 percent of 1,424 job seekers answered that Google Korea was their preferred work place among foreign [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — TVXQ, the two member Korean group, received five trophies at Japan’s 29th Golden Disk Awards for the second consecutive year. TVXQ was awarded ‘Best Asian Artist,’ ‘Best Album in Asia,’ ‘Best Music Video in Asia’ and two ‘Top Three Albums in Asia’ titles. TVXQ’s three Japanese tours between 2012 and 2014 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The CEO of the massive Chinese investment firm Golden Group visited the city of Gyeongju on March 1 in order to weigh investment opportunities, said the city government on March 2. Golden Group’s delegation was welcomed by the city’s mayor Choi Yang-Sik, who suggested development opportunities such as a tourist complex planned [...]
Seoul, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries has won a contract to build the world’s largest container ships from Japan’s MOL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines) for 609.2 million dollars, said the company on March 2. Samsung Heavy Industries is due to build, by 2017, four 20,000 TEU class container ships whose deck size will equal that of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Koreans are increasingly turning their eyes to Vietnam for job opportunities, as a staggering 4,063 Korean companies have a presence in South East Asian country, but to little avail, due to newly introduced regulations serving to narrow job opportunities for non-Vietnamese and promote job creation for Vietnamese nationals. Korean companies [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Harley-Davidson launched a new 2015 model that is unlike any Harley-Davidson that you’ve thought of. Its new Street™ XG750 is lean and lightweight, built for urban riding on crowded streets and freeways. The new model promises efficient, smooth and discreet riding with a narrow chassis for easy handling on tight turns. [...]