SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – At the fifth CAKE Square held at COEX in Seoul on January 11, participants are looking around at various creative content including crafts. The event is a subculture fair in the form of an exhibition, where individuals or members of content groups display their creative work in comics, animation characters, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, the largest mackerel exporter to Korea was Norway. In addition, Norwegian seafood products turned in a remarkable performance in Korea’s salmon and king crab markets. The Norwegian Seafood Council announced on January 12 that Norway exported 46,000 tons of seafood to Korea in 2014, an 84 percent increase [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s new range of SUHD TVs all earned awards at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samsung’s SUHD TVs are next generation monitors that use advanced 4K display technology. Samsung’s UN105S9B 105″ bendable SUHD TV, the largest in the world, earned a CES award for Best Innovation, giving the company [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The 11th of January was an important day for the Korean labor movement. Dubbed “Chimney Day,” the day saw a series of rallies of one-man picketers across the nation. The demonstrators were showing support for the reinstatement for Kim Jeong-ook and Lee Chang-geun, two fired workers from Ssangyong Motor. [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Panasonic, a leading provider of professional food service and retail technology solutions, announced today at the 104th National Retail Federation (NRF) Annual Convention & EXPO a new modular Point of Sales (POS) workstation, the Stingray III. An enterprise-grade POS device compatible with a variety of Microsoft Windows operating systems, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean drama dubbed in Spanish aired on Argentine TV for the first time from January 10, said the Korean Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Coreano) in Argentina. “Secret Garden,” a Korean hit drama, was broadcast on Magazine TV, a cable channel operated by Grupo Clarin, Argentina’s biggest media company. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Tobacco companies are stopping the sale of unpopular products due to recent setbacks caused by government-mandated increases in cigarette prices. British American Tobacco (BAT) Korea, the second largest tobacco company in Korea, decided to stop sales of Lucky Strike, one of its oldest brands, in order to focus on sales [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A mother whose son was killed by a teen with a developmental disability posted a story about the murder online, in hopes of bringing just closure to the case without delay. In December 2014, Lee, a nineteen year old with a developmental disability in the most severe category by the [...]
BUSAN, Korea, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Oscar, owned by MSC, the world’s second largest shipping company, arrived at the new port of Busan on January 8. Oscar is the largest container vessel in the world, with a capacity of 19,224 20-feet long containers. Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering built the ship at its Okpo shipyard. The [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – From January 9 to 18, the Daegwallyeong Snow Festival will be held at Daegwallyeong in Pyeongchang. With a theme entitled “Dream of Snow Land: Hoping For a Successful 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics,” the festival will showcase various snow-related sculptures in one of Korea’s winter wonderlands. The snow sculptures include [...]