SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Prior to the official release of his first solo album, Jonghyun, a member of the K-pop band SHINee, held a showcase at SM TOWN in Seoul on January 8. During the showcase, Jonghyun sang his solo tracks including “Crazy,” “Deja-Boo,” and others from his solo album “Base of Jonghyun,” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Freezing weather could not deter the black beret soldiers from skipping their annual winter training. The Special Warfare Command (SWC) of Korea announced that it is conducting special survival training to familiarize soldiers with harsh winter weather. The annual winter training exercises are being conducted by a battalion unit for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hankook Tire will be a title sponsor for the 24H Series, the biggest endurance race in the world, and will be the exclusive tire supplier from 2015 to 2017, according to a company announcement on January 8. The Korean tire manufacturer will supply 17″ to 19″ racing tires to every [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — WeMakePrice, a Korean social commerce company, is facing criticism after firing 11 merchandising assistants after their two week probation period. WeMakePrice hired 11 assistants and assigned them to sales teams. The assistants worked 14 hours a day, and were paid 50,000 won per day. WeMakePrice said none of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, said Friday its all-new Sonata has been chosen in the U.S. as the car with the best economic performance. The new Sonata, unveiled last spring, won the “2015 Best Economic Performance Award” in the full-size segment by the Automotive Science Group (ASG), a U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Angel-in-us Coffee, a coffee chain from the Korean-Japanese conglomerate Lotte Group, is proceeding with a special event where coffee prices are discounted or increased depending on a customer’s politeness when ordering. In the event “Warm-hearted Word – Call My Name,” to be held on the first Wednesday of every [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Kyung-hwan is looking at an Eiffel Tower made by a 3D printer while he visits Rokit, a 3D printer manufacturer in Gasan-dong, western Seoul, on January 7. Deputy Prime Minister Choi said in a conference with new industry business leaders, “The [...]
“Lee Sang-bong has been exploiting the passion and labor of young designers in the fashion industry by paying low monthly wages such as 100,000 won (US$91) for an apprentice, 300,000 won for an intern, and less than minimum wage for a full-timer.” “Last year, the Council of Fashion Designers in Korea, led by its chairman [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The offspring of South Korean business group founders have been fast-tracked up the corporate ladder, many of them becoming executives in their early 30s, data from a business research firm showed Thursday. According to CEO Score, 44 such children, mostly third or fourth-generation family members of company founders, were [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – AhnLab, Korea’s major security software provider, came up with “Black SHEEP” as a keyword of expected trends threatening cyber security this year. The word “black sheep” is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group. AhnLab choose the word as the technology or environment that [...]