SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said that it would kick off the Citizens’ Bulletin Board on the walls of its city hall building using the electronic technology. Any citizen can post short messages on the bulletin board through their mobile phone text messaging. The LED board is as large [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – When you travel overseas, you often feel as if you are an Alice in wonderland. Sometimes that could be a nice experience but some other times it may be confusing and terrifying. What if you could get help from a local friend who knows her way around the [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting September this year, highway rest areas will get one-to-five-star ratings just like hotels. In a bid to improve services in rest areas, Korea Expressway Corp. said on June 19 that it would introduce an evaluation scheme to give out ratings based on customer surveys. Any rest area with the highest [...]
![[Stats] Per Capita Alcohol Consumption by Type of Liquor](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Per-Capita-Alcohol-Consumption.jpg "[Stats] Per Capita Alcohol Consumption by Type of Liquor")
Korea’s per-capita alcoholic beverage consumption was 100 bottles of beer and 60 bottles of Korean vodka (soju) in 2012. According to the Korea Alcohol & Liquor Industry Association on June 19, the total domestic consumption of alcohol in 2012 was 3.12 million kiloliters (1 kiloliter equals 1,000 liters). The figure included unofficial consumption from alcoholic [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) –Korea’s per-capita alcoholic beverage consumption was 100 bottles of beer and 60 bottles of Korean vodka (soju) in 2012. According to the Korea Alcohol & Liquor Industry Association on June 19, the total domestic consumption of alcohol in 2012 was 3.12 million kiloliters (1 kiloliter equals 1,000 liters). The figure included [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The regulation on “firm banking,” the banking method used to pay for mobile phone bills, insurance premiums, or newspaper subscription fees, will be strengthened. This is made possible by an agreement from the user through the Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute that takes certain amounts of funds from the user’s [...]
![[Stats] Downlods of Online Discount Coupons by Foreign Tourists](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/discount-coupon1.jpg "[Stats] Downlods of Online Discount Coupons by Foreign Tourists")
A study suggested that the international success of a couple of Korean TV series, such as “My Love from the Star,” has attracted more and more individual tourists to Korea. Visit Korea Committee (www.vkc.or.kr) revealed on June 17 its analysis results of online discount coupon download statistics during the past five months (from January to [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the nationwide deployment of broadband LTE-A service, LG Uplus has successfully developed the world’s first Uplink Carrier Aggregation technology that provides four times faster upload speed than LTE. The company said on June 18 that it has completed the pilot run on the uplink CA technology with an upload [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Financial Services Commission will introduce an independent financial advisory scheme in the second half of this year at the earliest. The scheme has been introduced in Europe earlier than any other regions in the world. As the name suggests, “independent” financial advisors are not affiliated with any financial investment firms [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 18 that it has launched a new service called “T Benefit” that notifies the user all benefits provided by the company, as well as the rate plan and additional services the user has signed up. T Benefit gathers all benefit information scattered around the company’s [...]