SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A foreign basketball player who stretched while the national anthem was being played before a match has finally been thrown off his team. The team explained that his removal was caused not only by his rude behavior, but also from his reckless private life. On March 20, the Changwon [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean actress Kim Yun-jin has taken on the leading role for the third season of the American drama “Mistresses.” According to Zion Entertainment, Kim’s talent agency, she left for Vancouver to shoot the drama on March 10, and has been busy meeting with staff, trying on clothes, and practicing her [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 150 foreigners will hold an ultimate Frisbee competition titled “Pohang Frozen Fives 2015” on March 21 and 22 to commemorate the opening of the Seoul-Pohang KTX route at a sports complex in Pohang. Although the game is unfamiliar to most Koreans, it is rapidly gaining popularity among young [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Aston Martin, a British supercar brand known for its role in James Bond movies, launched in South Korea on Friday, adding to the intense competition in the country’s growing luxury sports and supercar market. Kiheung International, which also imports Harley Davidson, was designated as the authorized dealer and importer of [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Nike is to hold an exhibition, House of Air Max, at art gallery ‘Fifty Fifty’ in Garosu-gil from March 21 to 26. The exhibition will feature 120 pairs of rare vintage Air Max shoes, the reconstructed atelier of Nike’s legendary shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, and art pieces designed to show the history [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A colony of Japanese waxwings on their journey to the north was spotted snacking on pyracantha fruits near Gyeongpo Lake in Gangneung, on March 19. The twenty to thirty Japanese waxwings were too tired and hungry to be scared of crowds at the lake, even feasting upon pyracantha fruits offered [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean card companies are throwing themselves at Costco Korea in hopes of developing an affiliate partnership, as the company’s current agreement with Samsung Card ends in May. Costco’s corporate policy is to only have one card partnership agreement per country, and its affiliation with Samsung Card has been in place for [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A free law consulting service for foreigners will be introduced in five to ten Korean counties, said the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on March 19. The service, named ‘Maeul (Town) Lawyers,’ will be provided by designated lawyers, and will be available via Korea’s official immigration help line, 1345, in [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of professional indemnity insurance products is rapidly increasing in Korea. The size of the professional indemnity market, calculated as the overall sum of the original premiums, was 115 billion won (US$ 102.4 million) in 2008 and 140 billion won (US$ 124.7) in 2012. It has been growing at [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea returned the remains of 68 Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War to China on Friday for final burial in their homeland, the defense ministry here said. During a solemn ceremony at Incheon International Airport, South Korean soldiers handed over the coffins, draped in red Chinese flags, [...]