SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon International Airport’s tax-free cigarette booths are swarming with Korean tourists lining up to buy tax-free cigarettes these days. With a pack of cigarettes in Korea now selling for more than 4,000 won (US$ 3.6), tax-free cigarettes have become a must-buy item on travelers’ shopping lists. However, this safe [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – How do Korean men fare when it comes to sharing chores with their wives? According to a report published by Statistics Korea on January 7, Korean men ranked poorly out of the 12 nationalities. The report was based on the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). The report deals with 6 main [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans, being highly health conscious, are especially interested in pairing foods that go well together and avoiding foods that might not be healthy when eaten together. Koreans are also very aware of eating food that matches the season. If you are in Korea this winter, you might be interested in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, who are the happiest and the saddest individuals? According to a survey published by Hyundai Research Institute on January 7, self-employed, divorced men in their forties are the most unhappy, and single women in their twenties in specialized professions were the happiest in 2014. The survey about economic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. lost a case where it demanded that the taxation be cancelled on the kickbacks given to hundreds of doctors through fraudulent “surveys”. The court decided that the survey consultant firm hired by Korea Otsuka was promoting and publicizing products of Korea Otsuka, but disguised it as surveying. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Marketing Insight, a Korean vehicle research company, conducted a survey on 5,416 male and female drivers about social perceptions of women’s driving. Among the respondents, 76 percent agreed that men generally think women are bad drivers, while 72 percent thought that a relative lack of experience, compared to male drivers, is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SM Entertainment has introduced the first 3D hologram video musical in the world. ‘School OZ’ will play at the SM TOWN Coex Artium Building’s SM TOWN theater in Gangnam, Seoul on January 14. The musical will feature floating 3D holographic actors, while 40 meters of screens, 14 projectors and a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyuna’s ‘RED’ music video ranked fifth on Rolling Stone’s list of the best music videos of 2014. The Korean singer is the only Asian artist on the list. Rolling Stone wrote that Hyuna’s RED is a K-pop hit “switching from trap and hip-hop to bubbly pop” and that the music [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver is planning to maximize the revenue of webtoon creators by enforcing a PPS (Page Profit Share) strategy, the company said on January 5. PPS is a business strategy introduced by Naver in 2013. It is designed to maximize the exposure of character products and paid content based on webtoons. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – An online posting claiming that a mother and her daughter verbally abused three parking attendants and made them kneel is brewing controversy in Korean society. The incident took place at Hyundai Department Store’s underground parking lot in Jungdong, Bucheon. On January 3, the story was posted online by an individual [...]