SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A competition to get bigger by gobbling up rivals in the energy industry is getting fiercer. As GS Group has closely caught up with the industry leader POSCO Energy by acquiring STX Energy, POSCO Energy responded by betting big on trying to take over Tongyang Power. The power generation business, [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul City Government will provide opportunities for the “culturally deprived,” including low-income families, senior citizens, and the handicapped, by inviting them to sporting games such as baseball (during the months of June and September), soccer (July), and basketball (October and November). The number of people to benefit from the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ultra Music Festival Korea 2014, the gigantic music festival to be held at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul Sports Complex (Jamshil) for two days between June 13 and 14, is expected to attract thousands of visitors from countries like the United States, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia.The organizers estimated the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s job portal “FindJob” will introduce a TV commercial featuring “flexjobs,” the first of such advertising messages in the industry. The company said on June 2 that it would launch a TV commercial message targeting those job searchers who want to get flexible-time jobs such as women who quit their [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Two sisters famous for being members of K-pop girl groups, Jessica of Girl’s Generation and Krystal of f(x), showed their tears in a reality TV show in which they are starring. In a surprise party for Jessica’s birthday secretly prepared by her younger sister Krystal during their trip to Los Angeles [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Knock Code,” a security solution by LG Electronics for its smartphones such as the LG G Pro 2, has recently earned a patent from the Korea Intellectual Property Office (registration number 10-1404234). This is a meaningful milestone for the company as the patent proves the technology’s novelty. The company has [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – U Pleat, a web design firm, said on June 5 that it recently launched a web- and mobile app-based experience centers for the Galaxy S5 in which users can “touch” and try new features of the latest smartphone model. The web experience center (http://bit.ly/1nZBfTr) was designed in ways for users [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Taeyang, a member of K-pop boy group “Big Bang” released his second regular album and the music video of its title track, “Eyes, Nose, Lips” on June 2 and is gaining explosive responses from his fans. Yang Hyun-suk, head of YG Entertainment, participated in making the music video by sharing his [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (meaning ‘the People of Delivery’),” released another smartphone app for restaurant operators to take and process the delivery orders made from the “Baedal Minjok” app. The “Baedal Minjok Order-taking App” released on June 2 can be [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Hyundai Mobis announced on June 2 that it will give away 100,000 transparent umbrellas to elementary schools all across Korea, by drawing lots as part of the “2014 Transparent Umbrella Sharing Campaign.” For starters, the executives and employees of the company visited Joong-Il Elementary School near its R&D center in Yongin [...]