SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (NRICH) was donated a lifetime collection of 2,000 rare insect specimens by Hong Seung-pyo, a Korean entomologist, on February 4. The collection features a specimen of a titan beetle, the biggest species among beetles. Hong’s specimen is 11.4 centimeters long, which makes it the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju city recently held a Tamna Ipchun festival, a traditional celebration to celebrate the first arrival of spring, and wish for good fortune for the rest of the year, at Jeju Mokgwana, a historic Joseon Dynasty government office site in Jeju.The festival included a gut, a ritual performed by Korean shamans, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Super Junior’s Choi Si-won is to promote his new movie Dragon Blade in Asia with co-stars Jackie Chan, Adrien Brody and John Cusack. Directed by Daniel Lee, Dragon Blade is one of the biggest budget Chinese movies of all time. Choi Si-won and the other cast members will visit China, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first non-Korean was recently registered among the roughly 1000 racehorse owners recorded by the Korea Racing Authority (KRA), said officials on February 4. Joseph Dallao, head of the Korean branch of American defense contractor L-3 Communications, attended the KRA’s orientation program held for 10 newly registered racehorse owners this [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A powerful robot vacuum cleaner caused an unlikely accident involving a Korean housewife, and required the intervention of a couple of paramedics. On January 3, a woman in her fifties had her hair sucked up into a robot vacuum at her home in the city of Changwon, South Korea. On the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of marriages in 2014 is expected to reach an all-time low, while the number of newborns in 2014 is also expected to be low. The figures are fueling worries that low fertility rates and an aging population are becoming more imminent problems. According to Statistics Korea (KOSTAT), the accumulated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has launched a new subway map platform designed to be more informative of actual geographical features, in collaboration with French architect and map designer Jug Cerovic, said the company in an announcement on February 2. Subway passengers often find themselves instinctively estimating actual geographical features including real distances while studying [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sejong LED Institute has succeeded in developing commercializable, highly heat-resistant LED lamps that can easily replace metal-halide lamps widely used in Korea for street lighting. Using existing LED lamps for street lighting requires installing extra outer envelopes around the lamps to prevent them from melting from their own heat. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation (KOBACO) is holding an exhibition of up-cycled products made by ex-homeless citizens who have successfully lent themselves to self-sustainability. The exhibition is being held at the Gwang Gyo Gallery, beside the Cheonggye stream in downtown Seoul, until March 15. The exhibition features 12 up-cycled products such [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) has developed the WT-200, the lightest GPS tracking microchip in the world. According to an announcement from the MSIP on February 3, the WT-200 weighs only 22 grams, and can be even placed under the skin of Baikal Teals, which are [...]