SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Capital Area Air Environment Protection Agency will hold an annual contest to give awards to winners in total air pollutant management plans on November 11 at the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corporation building in Seoul’s Gangnam. The presentation session will announce four winning firms, 34 communities of practice, and three individuals [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 145 doctors and nurses have submitted their applications for an emergency medical team to be dispatched to West Africa to treat Ebola patients. The government has decided it would send the team to Sierra Leone in which the spread of the epidemic is fastest and most virulent. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — BC Card, Korea’s major credit card company, said on November 7 that it has launched a new mobile app called “Wanzhuan Hanguo” (meaning “smart Korea” in Chinese) for Chinese tourists visiting Korea. The app provides useful information for the tourists including Chinese-language maps and GPS services, tourism information, and KT phone [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor Ryu Seung-ryong and the CEO of his talent management firm Yeo Jun-young will become start-up investors. According to industry sources on November 7, Ryu, famous for his role as a mentally handicapped father in Miracle in Cell No. 7, one of the highest grossing Korean films of all time, and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — “Interstellar,” the newly released sci-fi adventure film, is gaining popularity in Korea by recording a box office number of 220,000 for the first day on November 6. Movie industry officials hoped this would be the momentum for all other new films to log in good numbers. According to the Korean Film [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment said its ten popular web board games out of 13 have been given warnings from the government regulators for possible rating cancellation. The Game Rating and Administration Committee had notified the company on November 6 that it would withdraw the rating approval for ten web board games that it services [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A study said Korea’s income redistribution effect through taxation is lowest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member nations. According to a report “Implications for Taxes’ Income Redistribution Effect” published by the National Assembly Research Service on November 7, the ratio of income redistribution improvement through policy measures such as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A news report that security of millions of smartphones has been compromised by flashlight apps has caused a stir. To this, the Korea Communications Commission immediately responded that it would investigate the matter and impose sanctions if deemed necessary. An official with the regulatory body said on November 6, “We were [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As much as 15 trillion won of money flowed in to a public subscription of Samsung SDS common stocks. It was because it has been a long time since there was a large-scale public subscription in the market while so much money was looking for high-return opportunities in the era of super-low [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Bank of Communications held on November 6 a memorandum signing event for the opening of a won-yuan settlement bank in Seoul. Earlier in July this year, the two summits of China and Korea had agreed to a deal in which the People’s Bank of China would designate Bank of Communications as a [...]