SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is famous for its obsession with English education. So passionate about improving English skills that there is a rising number of ‘English-only villages’ across the nation, including the Paju English Camp in Gyeonggi Province. The volume of the nation’s private English education market is estimated at roughly 6 [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Can the sequel be better than the original? The movie trailer of “Tazza 2: Hand of God” was released. From the first stage of the film production, Tazza 2 gained people’s attention by casting Choi Seung-hyun or Top of K-pop boy group Big Bang. In addition to Top, various character actors like [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s largest conglomerates such as Samsung Group and Hyundai Motor Group are holding huge amounts of retained earnings in the form of cash and are showing willingness to invest in financial instruments instead of plowing it back into capital spending. For example, Samsung is prepared to put its money into yuan-tied structured [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the government’s regulation to designate industrial areas exclusively reserved for small- and mid-sized enterprises has not helped the companies since its introduction in 2011. According to a report authored by Professors Bin Ki-beom and Woo Seok-jin of Myongji University at the request of the Federation of Korean [...]
HONGCHEON , July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Today people spend a bulk of their waking time of the day staring at the screen of their computer, smartphone, or TV. Couples tend to talk less with each other. According to a 2013 survey by the Planned Population Federation of Korea, an average of one couple out of three allots [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The site of the former headquarters building of Korea Electric Power Corp. in Seoul’s Gangnam will be up for sale and it remains to be seen who will take the land plot considered one of the best locations in Seoul. In addition, overseas real estate groups such as China’s Greenland Holding [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will strengthen its supervision on mobile apps made available by state-run agencies. Until now, a thousand of apps has been launched by government agencies and public or semi-public organizations but their features are limited and often overlapping. According to government sources on July 17, the National Information Society [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics will supply the 2014 edition of 3,000 Galaxy Note 10.1 devices preinstalled with the “Knox” mobile security platform to the Credit Finance Association of Korea. This is the first instance in which Samsung introduces Knox in Korea’s financial service industry. Knox is essential to the association’s security requirements as [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Shoo, a member of former idol girl group SES, came back not with new dance music but with a funny rap of her child-rearing episode this time. In this TV commercial for Kerasys Naturing Shampoo, Shoo, now a mother of three including twin daughters, raps about her life of children caring [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid a wave of requests from foreign city governments to learn from the experience of Seoul City, the city government has published an online edition of its “Policy Archive” (www.seoulsolution.kr) in two languages in Korean and English. The website makes available a wealth of information on the city’s urban management know-how [...]