SEOUL, Korea, Feb 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The three foreign fashion brands, including Uniqlo, Zara, and H&M, which account for more than 50 percent of the domestic budget-price apparel market, are moving aggressively this year to expand in Korea. According to fashion industry sources on February 4, Japan’s Uniqlo, Zara of Spain, and Swedish clothier Hennes [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors said on February 4 that it won the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) mark for the interior materials used in its Soul EV, the electric vehicle to be unveiled for the first time in the upcoming Chicago Auto Show to be open on February 8. According to company [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Home appliance makers are now competing based more on aesthetic quality than over technical superiority. For example, Samsung’s Zipel Food Showcase refrigerator (FS9000) has divided its cold storage into two parts–”In-case” and “Showcase”–so that users can store infrequently used items inside while putting items like milk and juice in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “Office workers tend to get tired at 2:16 pm and feel like having sweets.” “Most housewives make pickles in May.” “People like eating canned tuna with Kimchi best.” These are findings about Korean food consumers dug up by CJ CheilJedang by analyzing 650 million bits of data from blog, [...]
Ulsan, Korea, Feb 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A parking surveillance system mounted on city buses has contributed a lot to reducing the incidence of illegal parking. The City of Ulsan in the southeast of the country near Busan has introduced the system in September 2012 and has seen so much improvement in traffic flow and safety. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration announced on February 2 that it would impose a limited-time ban on three insecticides—thiamethoxam, clothianidin, and imidacloprid—that contain the neonicotinoids, a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine in compliance with the two-year moratorium on the chemicals by the EU government until November 30, 2015. [...]
FRANCE, Feb 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Mountain Planet, a professional trade show for players dealing with the mountain industry, will be held for three days between April 23 and 25 at Grenoble in southeastern France at the foot of the French Alps. The biennial exhibition, organized by Alpexpo has been held since 1974, is sponsored by [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will launch a new TV app called “UHD Zoo Endangered Animals.” The company attracted more than 500,000 visitors to the Endangered Animal Exhibition held in August last year at the Beyond Museum in Seoul’s Gangnam, followed by shows in the Everland theme park and the Daegu Design [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As the Chinese economy grows by leaps and bounds, more Chinese nationals go out and travel the world, opening up their wallet generously. Korea has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of this trend, hosting more than 4 million tourists last year from the neighboring country. The number [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 29 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s not news any more that the Chinese tourists are buying up luxury goods at Korea’s department stores and duty free shops. But now they are showing keen interest in real estate properties all across the country. Some group tourists even visit show houses as part of their itineraries. [...]