LOS ANGELES, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean film “Twenty” will open in North American theaters next week, its American distributor said Tuesday. The comedy about three close friends who all turn 20 years old will be shown in 25 theaters in such big cities as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver from [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite an economic slowdown, sales of luxury products in South Korea soared in the first quarter of 2015 partly due to recent price cuts by major luxury brands, data showed Wednesday. Lotte Department Store saw sales of luxury products jump 15.7 percent on-year in the January-March period, with sales of [...]
INJE, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The mountainous Inje County in Gangwon will set up a special monument commemorating Marilyn Monroe, who performed several times for US soldiers following the Korean War (1950-1953). The county will place the monument at Inje Catholic Church, where Monroe performed for American soldiers on a make-shift stage in February 1954. [...]
JEJU, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A special call center dedicated to electric vehicle drivers was set up in Jeju to help solve EV-related complaints in the province. On April 6, Jeju Self-governing Province opened the EV Call Center to offer EV-related information such as road side service, and reports related to charging station malfunctions. EV drivers [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – TMON Pay, the proprietary simple payment system from Korea’s first social commerce provider Ticket Monster (TMON), has attracted more than 200,000 subscribers just one month after its launch. TMON Pay enables payments in just three seconds by inputting a password whenever a subscriber purchases products at the social commerce [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a super capacitor material which can charge electricity 10 times faster than existing batteries, and store twice as much as graphene-based materials. Professor Park Ho-seok of the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, announced that his team created the super capacitor material by making [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It looks exactly like a prop from a sci-fi movie, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a custom-designed splint. Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to Korea, recently posted a picture on Facebook of the device he’s using to help recuperate from injuries sustained to his left hand and [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled a host of new capabilities and services that give security professionals extensive intelligence and analysis on potential compromises and solutions to protect against, respond to and recover from attacks. Cisco announces the addition of AMP Threat Grid to the Cisco® Advanced Malware [...]
“Despite our government’s repeated warnings, the Japanese government yesterday carried out the provocation of reviewing and passing middle school textbooks that distort, reduce and omit the historical facts and today repeated the historically regressive move of passing through the Cabinet a Diplomatic Bluebook containing unjust claims regarding the issues of Dokdo and the victims of [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Five Korean kids worked as curators at a Honda booth at the 2015 Seoul Motor Show on April 6. As participants of Honda Korea’s ‘Kids Curators’ program, the children explained what they found appealing about Honda vehicles, and told visitors to the booth about their personal experiences with Honda [...]