SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, consumers will be able to demand documentary evidence to travel agencies when they ask for too much for cancellation charges. In addition, consumers will pay a certain amount proportional to the shift in exchange rate instead of paying a fixed surcharge whenever the exchange rate moves to an [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – In a situation where the Chinese food market has emerged as a new opportunity for Korea’s food exporters, their share in the vast market still falls short of a little more than 1 percent. According to a report “Strategy to Break the Barriers to the Chinese Food Market” published on July [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the situation where personal information breaches continue, online retailers are still negligent in managing their customers’ data. According to a data by the Seoul Electronic Commerce Center on July 22, a quasi-public organization established jointly by the Consumers Union of Korea and the Seoul City Government, based on a survey [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to prevent the instances of fabricating mill test certificates and thereby reduce the volume of low-quality steel product imports, the Korean Iron & Steel Association has introduced a new QR code-based scheme called “QReal” and entered an emergency mode to fully implement the scheme. According to the association, the [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hanwha Eagles, Korea’s professional baseball club based in the city of Daejeon, has introduced mannequins called “Fan-bots” that would play the role of cheerleaders holding LED placards in the bleachers. To be debuted in Daejeon Baseball Stadium, the home ballpark of the Eagles, the robot fans will sit in three [...]
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SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Men are easily diagnosed with urinary stones and the pain from the stones is several times more excruciating than that of childbirth. The urinary stone caused by small bits of hard material that form in urinary tract and obstruct the flow of urine is a painful disease. The symptoms vary from [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group Rainbow entertained the troops dispatched to support the reconstruction work in the devastated areas hit by super Typhoon Haiyan November last year in the Philippines. During a reality TV show “Real Man,” the members of the program commemorated the rebuilding of Naga-naga Elementary School in the spot together with the [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The imports of mate tea (pronounced as “mah-tay”) have grown 18 times for the past five years. It contrasts well with the importation of green tea and black tea growing only 3.4 times during the same period. The caffeine-rich tea from South America is popular in Korea principally because of [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A mobile application that allows users to look for job openings for chefs and other restaurant workers has become available. FindAll, the service provider of job information on newspapers, the Internet, and mobile devices, said on July 18 that it launched a new app exclusively for those interested in restaurant [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In the United States, the world’s largest consumer market, baby boomers, Hispanics, and millennials, have fast emerged as the three most power consumer groups. The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency recommended to Korean consumer goods exporters that they must come up with marketing strategies that take into account these changes. In [...]