SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor-turned-director Song Seung-whan on Thursday was named the creative chief of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The organizing committee announced that Song, currently the CEO and executive artistic director of Seoul-based PMC Production, will serve as executive creative director of the [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is presumed to be putting more focus on its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, the variant of the Galaxy S6, documents showed Thursday, as it won a trademark for the “S6 EDGE+” earlier this week. According to the documents posted by the United States Patent and [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The larger companies are, the more they hire irregular workers including contract and outsourced workers, highlighting the fact that big firms are contributing to instability in levels of job security rather having a steadying effect. According to Ministry of Employment and Labor data on types of employment at 3,233 companies [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, Park, a 19-year-old part-time worker, came across a preposterous situation after she asked for back pay of 320,000 won from her previous employer. Park worked at a bar as a part-timer for about two months since February, but she was not paid properly. She asked the owner of the [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, one can verify the amount of inheritance including debt from the dead when the death is reported to authorities. In the past, inheritance verification required a number of inconvenient visits to several related offices. The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced that it had begun [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The New York Festivals (NYF), one of three major advertisement festivals in the world, opened its spin-off festival in Yeoju, Korea on July 1. ‘The NYF in Yeoju 2015’ will feature about 5,000 advertisements which have been shown at or awarded by the NYF in New York in May, [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Paju has announced plans to develop a 15.5 billion won (US$ 13.8 million) theme park on a 200,000㎡ site around Majang Lake by 2017. The theme park, named Outro Theme Park, will be comprised of promenade routes, trekking courses, campgrounds and swimming pools. The city is [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will start a project to develop high functioning, low-cost vacuum adiabatic glass, a super-insulator glass, said the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning on June 30. The project is one of seven new technologies to be supported by the government, selected from 159 candidate projects. [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Three revised welfare laws that enable citizens to receive ‘tailored’ welfare benefits varying upon general livelihood, housing, health and education, took effect on July 1. Korea’s national basic livelihood security supported individuals in need by selecting them on the basis of the minimum cost of living. The Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Air Force has decided to buy four of Airbus D&S’ in-flight tanker, the A330 MRTT, in a somewhat unexpected choice to pick a European and not an American aircraft. Kim Si-cheol, a representative of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), said on June 30 that the administration mulled over [...]