SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean restaurant franchise ‘Mad for Garlic’ prepared a Chinese Spring Festival party for dozens of Chinese university students in Seoul, in collaboration with big data based restaurant ranking services firm Red Table, at the restaurant’s Myeongdong branch. Mad for Garlic prepared a Chinese tradition, hongbao, or red envelopes, which are monetary [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Mi-Gyeong, ex-chairperson of Korean NGO ‘Beautiful Store,’ is holding her first private art exhibition, entitled ‘4 PM in Seochon,’ at gallery Ryugaheon in Tongui-dong, Seoul. Kim stopped working for a prestigious and very well-known NGO last year, due to her sudden desire to draw the urban landscapes unfolding before Inwang [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A police station in the city of Cheongju is reaping positive results from the implementation of a program to track dementia sufferers using GPS. Cheongju Sangdang Police Station launched the monitoring system, in which dementia sufferers with their families’ consent are fitted with GPS locaters, in October 2014. Combined with Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is planning to reintroduce a civics test into the nation’s naturalization requirements for foreign spouses of Korean citizens. The MOJ first proposed this change of policy in April 2014. Immigrants to Korea can become naturalized citizens by passing language and civics tests, and going through an [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung’s SUHD TV has caught cinemagoers’ attention with a pre-show advertisement that instantly follows a theatrical teaser trailer, with direct references to the movie clip. The pre-show commercial starts with the line, ‘What would it be like to see this movie on Samsung’s SUHD TV?’ and continues with the main [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans love Ediya, a Korean coffee franchise, for its price and Starbucks for its taste. The Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) conducted a survey on 999 consumers regarding seven coffee franchises in Korea, and published the results on February 22. Ediya earned the highest score at 3.75 out of 5 for overall [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of individuals with subfertility increased 16 percent from 178,000 in 2007 to 208,000 in 2014, despite the Korean government’s continued efforts to expand health care services including subfertility treatments. According to a February 20 report by Park Yoon-Ok, assembly member of the Saenuri Party, the incidence of male subfertility [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has come up with a more effective way to collect monetary penalties. Kim Woo-Nam, a lawmaker from the opposition party of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD), said on February 20 that he proposed, on behalf of several other lawmakers with the same purpose, revised bills that will give offenders of minor [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Incheon will install 349 sets of CCTV surveillance cameras by 2018 as part of its crime prevention efforts. According to an announcement from the city government on February 20, 49 sets of cameras will be installed this year and 100 sets in each of the following three years. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver will start a Closed Beta Test (CBT) for its new SNS service ‘Pholar,’ which is based on the shared interest of users through tagging activities, on February 25, said the company on February 20. Pholar will be a very effective and convenient user-to-user interaction platform that facilitates users’ sorting [...]