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Citibank Korea Ranked First in Customer Complaint Numbers

Citibank Korea Ranked First in Customer Complaint Numbers

SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) - The bank with the highest number of complaints per every 100,000 customers was Citibank Korea last year. Among credit card companies, it was Hana-SK Card. As for the life insurance and property & casualty insurance industry, it was Woori Aviva Life and MG General Insurance. Tongyang Securities and Union Savings Bank [...]

“Male Children More Likely to Have Mental Developmental Disorders”…NHIS Study

“Male Children More Likely to Have Mental Developmental Disorders”…NHIS Study

SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said males are more likely to have mental developmental disorders than female counterparts by more than three times, with patients younger than 10 years old or below accounting for 64 percent of the total. The National Health Insurance Service said this on June 1 based on data for [...]

DSME Develops New Cost-saving Welding Technology

DSME Develops New Cost-saving Welding Technology

SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has succeeded in developing a new welding technology called the “large-scale horizontal deposit automated welding.” The company said on June 2 that it has successfully completed a pilot run using the newly developed technology. The business of shipbuilding involves a lot of horizontal welding in [...]

Maternity Clinic Market at Risk in Korea

Maternity Clinic Market at Risk in Korea

SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of maternity clinics closing down their practice is twice the number of newly opening ones, it has become more difficult to find obstetrician clinics in the neighborhoods. According to the Research Institute for Healthcare Policy, 1,536 practices in all medical specialties have closed nationwide in 2013, which means that [...]

Nature Republic Myeong-dong Sits on the Nation’s Most Expensive Real Estate

Nature Republic Myeong-dong Sits on the Nation’s Most Expensive Real Estate

SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – “When we launched a new cosmetic brand back in 2009, we thought hard about what to do to promote our Nature Republic brand most effectively. We ended up setting up shop in the middle of the Myeong-dong (or Myung-dong) commercial zone as the best-possible way to raise our profile quickly.” This [...]