SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Wave is set to make a splash in the inland areas of China. Omgworld, a Korean retail business consulting company, plans to advance into Hohhot, the capital city of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, by distributing K-wave related products jointly with a local Chinese department store. Omgworld announced [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Highlighting “wellness” feature of natural and healthy ingredients and better flavors, CJ CheilJedang wants to profit from an increasingly lucrative sector in the food market which is valued at about 50 billion won (US$49 million) : the pasta sauce market According to CJ, it is contemplating a plan to expand the [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Choo Sarang, a lovely 2-year-old “idol kid” who happens to be the daughter of the Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Choo Sung-hoon (Yoshihiro Akiyama), shows her love with mango in a recent TV program. Sarang, who is appearing in KBS-2 TV’s real-variety program “Superman Is Back,” showed her mango-loving preference very clearly [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Race is on among the mobile game makers to come up with more effective and creative marketing campaigns, aimed at winning over the prospective users even before games are officially released. Swedish game developer Supercell, for example, has reportedly earmarked 10 billion won (US$10million) of marketing budget to promote its [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said as many as 47 percent of Korea’s 167,000 millionaires with net financial assets in excess of 1 billion won (about US$987,000) reside in Seoul (as of end of 2013). According to a report “Korea’s Rich People” published recently by KB Financial Group Management Institute, most of the [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Send your pictures of Seoul’s morning to Seoul Metropolitan City Government’s official Instagram account and get free gifts like a music box, a lacquer tumbler, or a neck pillow featuring Seoul’s famous tourist attractions. The city government has recently opened an account with Instagram (@seoul_official) to share photos with the [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – What if you can roll up your tablet computer and put it in your pocket like a scroll? How would you like if your car navigator is embedded on the windshield? This is not something you see on movies like Avatar or Minority Report. These futuristic devices are already with [...]
![[Stats] Pros and Cons of Raising Cigarette Prices](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cigarette-Price-2.jpg "[Stats] Pros and Cons of Raising Cigarette Prices")
A survey revealed that 59 percent of Koreans were in agreement over the government’s plan to raise the cigarette prices. Gallup Korea recently held a survey on 1,000 adults older than 19 years of age, asking “What do you think about the plan to increase the price for a pack of cigarettes to 4,500 won [...]
![[Feature] Ecological Corridor to Link Mt. Jiri with Mt. Deogyu for Asian Black Bears](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/28677262_m-800x529.jpg "[Feature] Ecological Corridor to Link Mt. Jiri with Mt. Deogyu for Asian Black Bears")
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – An ecological corridor will be created to link Mt. Jiri National Park with Mt. Deogyu National Park in the west as part of an effort to provide a wider habitat for the Asian black bears. The National Nature Trust said on July 1 that it would commence, in partnership with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey revealed that 59 percent of Koreans were in agreement over the government’s plan to raise the cigarette prices. Gallup Korea recently held a survey on 1,000 adults older than 19 years of age, asking “What do you think about the plan to increase the price for a pack of cigarettes [...]