SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is to lock-in two launch contracts with French launch services firm Arianespace on February 13. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) said that it has been developing, in collaboration with the KARI, two geo-stationary multi-purpose satellites used for monitoring weather and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — On February 11, the Uijeongbu District Court found a 54-year-old woman guilty of murdering two men – her husband and her boyfriend – and sentenced her to a jail term of 24 years. From the point of view of ordinary people, the case might easily be seen as a crime of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Beautiful Coffee, a Korean civic group promoting fair trade coffee, has now launched a campaign to change chocolate for Valentines’ Day to “brave” chocolate products made of cacao harvested by Peruvian farmers. The event titled “Change Your Chocolate” was proposed to help the “brave” Peruvian farmers who dared to give up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – If you happen to have neglected lipsticks left in your drawer, bring them to any Bobbi Brown store in Korea and get one new Bobbi Brown lipstick for one old lipstick! Bobbi Brown is holding this special recycling event for five shades, ‘Salmon’ in the Lip Color line, ‘Bright Poppy’ in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team at Konkuk University has revealed the mechanism behind grape seed flour’s health benefits, which include preventing cholesterol increase and weight gain. According to a joint research paper by a team led by Prof. Nah Seung-Yeol and Prof. Kim Hyun-Sook in collaboration with Sonomaceuticals LLC/WholeVine Products, their findings suggest that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A multitude of activist groups in Korea will start a street campaign against the “unfair” practice of overdue wages in the Korean fashion industry. The campaign is expected to be held on February 11 at Garosu Street in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, said an association of activist groups which includes fashion industry unions and part-time [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation (DTRO) has started limited operation of its new no. 3 transit line, the first monorail train in Korea, with the goal of opening the service to the public in April, officials said in a statement on February 9. For the next 60 days, 28 line no. 3 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeongbokgung and Changgyeonggung Palaces will be open for nighttime viewing from February 11 to 16 and February 10 to 15 respectively. Gyeongbokgung will be open from 7 pm to 9 pm with the last entrance at 8 pm, while Changgyeonggung will be open from 7 pm to 10 pm with the last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the governor of Bangkok, and his delegation visited operation rooms and stations for Korea’s first monorail in Daegu on February 9. The governor has chosen to benchmark Daegu’s monorail system, line no. 3, in order to develop 10 lines of various types of trains including monorail trains and AGT (Automatic [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group and the Sejong Metropolitan Autonomous City are developing a smart farming town based on ICT in Sejong city, to set a benchmark for making Korean farming more convenient and profitable. SK Group already established individual remote-control systems for 100 greenhouse farms in the Yeondong-myeon area of Sejong last year. [...]