SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Woowa Brothers Corp., Korea’s food delivery app developer, said on October 10 that it would launch a new service “Line Wow” jointly with Japan’s Line, a mobile messenger service. The two companies will make available a food delivery app and corresponding services within the year’s end. In the beginning, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said on October 10 that it held the first “Ocean Arbor Day” event on the previous day with 300 employees and their families at a beach in Jisepo-ri within Geoje Island. The participants planted in the water common eelgrass (Zostera marina), with an accompanying lecture [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Following a scandal surrounding G-Dragon who was caught dating with a Japanese model that brought down the share price of YG Entertainment, this time it was SM Entertainment’s turn to suffer a setback owing to a legal dispute with its star singer Lu Han. On October 10, SM Entertainment stock [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Only a week after the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law has been in effect on October 1, the sales of smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics fell to a level only half of what it used to be before the law. In contrast, the sales of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A congressional investigation revealed that some banks and insurance companies have provided loans to their own employees at extremely low rates between 0 and 2 percent a year. According to National Assemblyman Min Byung-du (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) on October 10 based on data submitted by the Financial Supervisory [...]
![[Quote] Apology of KakaoTalk Leads to Another Controversy](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/이재웅.png "[Quote] Apology of KakaoTalk Leads to Another Controversy")
“You have to find fault with state power abuse, not with a company unable to resist the power. If you are not happy with it, there is no way for you but to pack up and go to some other country. I don’t like what has happened with KakaoTalk but the criticism to how the [...]
![[Infographic] As spontaneous abortion is increasing, more moms grieve](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Miscarriage-thumbnail.jpg "[Infographic] As spontaneous abortion is increasing, more moms grieve")
SEOUL, Oct.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week. It is a serious matter not only for the woman but also for her partner and their families. As a growing number of women get pregnant late in life, the rate of miscarriage is also increasing. Therefore, it is important [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group said on October 9 that it has selected a total of 45 research projects for this year as part of its future technology fostering program that the company will invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.4 billion) for the next ten years. The projects to be funded by the company [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao said on October 9 that it would introduce a “privacy mode” to its KakaoTalk mobile messenger service within the year’s end as a way to enhance security. With the new feature, the user will be able to encrypt conversations with his friends and delete messages immediately. To this end, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to the recent controversy over the censorship on mobile messenger conversations, as many as 1.67 million users stopped using home-made mobile messengers including KakaoTalk, NateOn, and Line. In contrast, the number of users for “Telegram,” the mobile messenger app developed in Germany, has gained by a large margin. According [...]