SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean software developer Sonist has launched Community Mapping, a utility app designed to help blind pedestrians navigate their way through city streets. The app is very simple to use. When the app is opened, it automatically scans the area near the user on GPS, and collects visual and text information [...]
WANDO, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Cheongsan Island, one of Korea’s slow cities, is the 7th drama location among the list of the 10 most favored tourist destinations in Korea by Japanese tourists, according to an announcement from the island’s county on January 18. The Korea Tourism Organization Fukuoka Branch conducted the survey on 246 Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Government is getting serious about several real estate development projects in a bid to invigorate the tourism industry, according to an announcement on January 18 from related ministries and agencies such as the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Library of Korea launched an app that provides video books in Korean Sign Language (KSL), as well as subtitles and descriptive video clips for deaf and blind readers, according an announcement on January 15. The app is the first of its kind in the world. Previously, deaf and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A mysterious app called ‘Sour Sour Mansour’ is increasing in popularity after news of Korean stand-up comedian Song Jun-geun’s visit to a family’s home was spread online. Sour Sour Mansour, named after ‘suri suri masuri, the Korean version of ‘abracadabra,’ is an app through which users can post their wishes. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Group has recently completed construction of its 24MW solar power plant in Japan, cementing its leading position in the Japanese solar power market. Hanwha Q CELLS Japan had a completion ceremony for the Hanwha Solar Power plant in the city of Kitsuki on January 15. The Kitsuki plant is built [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphones have risen to be a new source of headaches for Seoul subway passengers and workers. While there are more than 40 million smartphone users in Korea, public inconveniences due to bad smartphone manners from some careless passengers are taking place underground. Recently, some subway train crews, on their own initiative, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean upper class members with more than 3 billion won (US$ 2.7 million) in financial assets are mostly interested in inheritance and asset gifts, according to a survey conducted by Samsung Life Insurance’s ‘Samsung Family Office’ on January 14. Samsung Family Office is the insurance company’s asset management center focused [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Min-Ho told the press about his transformation into a ragpicker in the new film ‘Gangnam 1970′, due to open on January 21. Lee attended the press conference at CGV Wangsimni in Seoul on January 13 alongside Kim Rae-Won, Jung Jin-Young, Kim Sul-Hyeon and the film’s director Yu Ha. The actor [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of Koreans in their twenties disagree with the idea that hard work leads to a better life, according to a report by the LG Economic Research Institute (LGERI) based on the World Values Survey Association’s (WVSA) survey results from 1995 to 2014. The WVSA has been conducting [...]