SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is planning to host several cooking competitions, according to the Korean Central News agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency. According to the KCNA’s report on February 9, the alleged aim of these curious competitions is to help improve North Koreans’ diets. A national competition will be [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Gunsan Regional Oceans & Fisheries Administration is planning a 1.5 billion won (US$ 1.3 million) project to install five light beacons off the coast of Gyeokpo-ri, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do, said the administration on February 9. The light beacons, navigation facilities for maritime guidance on rocky hazards, will be built in form of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Several events took place in PyeongChang to celebrate its three-year countdown to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. On February 9, about 800 citizens including Choi Moon-Soon, Governor of Gangwon-do, released 2,018 balloons into the air at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre Concert Hall to mark the start of three years of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The incidence of cervical herniated discs for Koreans in their twenties and thirties has been increasing recently. According to an analysis by Barunsesang Hospital(BRSH) published on February 9, the rate of patients in their twenties and thirties among BRSH’s 8,958 patients diagnosed with cervical herniated discs doubled from 17.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Spanish Ambassador to Korea, Gonzalo Ortiz, paid a visit to Céspedes Memorial Park in Changwon, Gyeongsamnam-do on February 5. Gregorio de Céspedes, a Spanish Jesuit Priest, was the first European to arrive in Korea. He came to the Korean peninsula at the request of the Roman Catholic Church in 1593, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Members of several Korean NGOs, including ‘Child Save’, protested against extending the lifespan of Gyeongju city’s Wolsung Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 in front of the KT building in Gwanghwamun, Seoul on February 5. The attendees of the protest said at a press conference that they are strongly opposed to current [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of newly registered foreign cars in January 2015 reached an all-time high since the Korean auto market was opened to foreign competition 25 years ago. According to an announcement from the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA), 19,930 imported cars were sold in January, an increase of 16.4 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The world’s leading music industry event, SXSW Music and Media Conference, is holding a ‘K-Pop Night Out’ that showcases 8 Korean bands on March 19, according to an announcement from the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) on February 5. The featured bands are Epik High, Crayon Pop, indie rock band [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A new method for synthesizing directional ‘smart polymers’ has been demonstrated by a Center for Self-assembly and Complexity research team led by Prof. Kim Ki-Moon at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea. Smart polymers are synthetic supramolecular assemblies that can undergo morphological transformations in response to environmental changes such [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The internet’s most searched term for popular places in Seoul in the second half of 2014 turned out to be the Hongdae area. According to an analysis conducted by Cheil Data and Analytics Center on 258,000 search keywords input by 3,200 people, 29.8 percent of the search keywords about Seoul’s [...]