SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey on women’s attitude toward romantic relationship revealed that Korean women were much more forthcoming than their counterparts in China and Japan. Cheil Worldwide, Korea’s largest ad agency under the umbrella of Samsung Group, said this on December 23 based on a survey on 300 women (100 each for one [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has decided not to extend subsidies to large film distributors such as CJ E&M and Lotte Entertainment for their Korean-made movies. It was a follow-up measure after the Fair Trade Commission announced on December 22 that it would impose fines of 5.5 billion won (3.2 billion won [...]
SEOUL, December 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Greenland Group, China’s secondlargest residential developer, will participate in a competitive public bidto develop a twin tower near the Digital Media City (DMC) in Seoul’s Sangam-dong, said Seoul Metropolitan Government on December 22. Seoul mayor Park Won-soon met Zhang Yuliang,chairman of Greenland Group and signed an MoU on December 22 in [...]
“Uber doesn’t want to do business under an uncertain legal environment. Related to this issue, we sent an official letter to the mayor of Seoul city to clarify the laws and revise if necessary.” “We want to work with taxi operators and I want the city government to help us open up conversations with taxi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Audit results revealed that the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and the Winter Paralympics Organizing Committee haven’t been able to enlist a sufficient number of sponsors and relied instead heavily on the government’s loans. The Board of Audit and Inspection said this on December 22 based on audits on the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan city government will grant up to 1 million won (US$907) to those reporting cases of unlicensed drivers carrying paying customers. This is specifically designed to discourage Uber from doing business in Seoul. The Seoul city government said this on December 19, adding that it would implement the city [...]
SEOUL, Dec 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Airport Corporation has completed on December 15 a project to paint the walls and control towers of its network airports in Gimpo (Seoul), Gimhae (Busan) and Jeju with new designs integrating the national flag. The control towers that underwent a makeover this time were four including two in Gimpo [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “To point at a stag and say it’s a horse.” This is the four-character idiomatic expression that best describes the year’s political state of affairs selected by professors. The Professors Weekly picked this idiom after a survey on 700 professors across the country of which 27 percent said “Zhi Lu Wei [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Instead of driving hours to get to a ski resort to enjoy snow sledding, Seoulites can do the same in a fraction of the time at a nearby park. The Han River Project Headquarters of the Seoul metropolitan city government said on December 18 that it would open snow sled slopes [...]
“It took 40 minutes to park and took another 40 minutes to 1 hour to get into the store.” “I saw ambulances waiting in front of the store as too many people flocked to the opening day.” “There were more people crowded inside the sales floor. I waited more than 30 minutes to use the [...]