SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A new YouTube commercial featuring Korea’s man of “gangster honor” Kim Bo-sung has logged in more than 600,000 hits within a few days of launch. The comic action star amuses the viewer by crying out “No caffeine, no carbonic acid, no artificial color!” Using his trademark word “euiri” (Korean equivalent [...]
![[Stats] Who Is Responsible For Caring Aged Parents?](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/부모부양-영문.png "[Stats] Who Is Responsible For Caring Aged Parents?")
[Related Article] Only 10% of Married Couples Believe Firstborn Male Child Must Take Care of Parents (Korea Bizwire, May 9) A survey said the conventional idea of the eldest son living with his old parents is almost disappearing. According to a recent survey by the Planned Population Federation of Korea on 1,466 married men and women, 44.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey said the conventional idea of the eldest son living with his old parents is almost disappearing. According to a recent survey by the Planned Population Federation of Korea on 1,466 married men and women, 44.6 percent of respondents said “It is better for parents to live apart from their [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung SDS decides to take the company public within the year’s end, it is likely the pace of Samsung Group’s restructuring and top management succession will accelerate. Especially given the three children of the current chairman Lee Kun-hee, including Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hotel Shilla president Lee [...]
![[Stats] Main Tourist Attractions by Foreigners](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/관광객주요방문지역-영문-가로-800x313.png "[Stats] Main Tourist Attractions by Foreigners")
[Related Article] Chinese Tourists Grumble Communication Difficulties While Shopping in Korea (Korea Bizwire, May 9) The number of foreign tourists from China has been rapidly increasing as entry and departure formalities were simplified for them; however, the number of Japanese tourists has been decreasing due to a weak yen… (see the full text of this news) Infographics Design Team [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A bill to improve the transparency of the mobile handset retail market has passed the April provisional session of the National Assembly. It is expected the law will go into effect by early October this year. Since May last year when the bill was introduced in the first place, it [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As the financial results of Korea’s major corporations worsen, the corporate tax receipts paid by the companies have also shrunk. According to the Financial Supervisory Service and FnGuide, a financial information provider, on May 7, the 87 affiliate firms within the top-ten business groups posted the pretax net profit at 50.9 [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Ium, a social dating service operator, said on May 7 that it has launched an app “Your Ideal Type Audition.” The new smartphone app, based on an idea that everyone is everyone else’s ideal type, can find Mr. and Miss Right in a game-like setting. Once the user begins the app, [...]
![[Infographics] SNORING,MAIN CAUSE OF YOUR INSOMNIA](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/코골이-영문-썸네일-1.png "[Infographics] SNORING,MAIN CAUSE OF YOUR INSOMNIA")
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – You may not know you are snoring while you are sleeping. But it could cause your lovely family members to fail to get to sleep. Also, snoring can cause you hypertension and cardiac disorder. To avoid snoring, you need to sleep on your side, abstain from drinking alcohol and [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Crush,” the second album of Korea’s quartet girl group 2NE1 ranked 61st on Billboard album chart, the highest ever score in the K-Pop history. 2NE1 also secured 22 percent of popularity rating in the “most popular K-Pop Girl Group” survey conducted by the “Girl Group Week” magazine. Billboard introduced “Come Back [...]