SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean consulates in China are issuing a record number of Korean visas for Chinese travelers thanks to the Korean wave in China. According to the Korean Consulate General in Shanghai, it issued 60 percent more visas compared to last year, surpassing the 800,000 mark for the first time for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Several photos showing nurses having a birthday party at a plastic surgery clinic while a patient was on the operating table have hit Korean Internet communities, and raised questions about the morality of Korean medical clinics. On December 28, the photos were revealed when a nurse from a plastic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will disclose its new concept washing machine, dubbed “Active Wash,” at the forthcoming CES 2015 to be held in Las Vegas on January 6. Active Wash is an innovative product enabling prewash for the first time in the century old washing machine industry. The new machine features a built-in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Monday it has introduced a simpler authentication for WiFi in local shops, as consumers complained about discrimination after the company had required local customers to fill out twice as many fields compared with those for foreigners. In the new Korean-language WiFi authentication webpage showcased Monday, users [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s 2014 tax revenue will likely miss its target by 11.7 trillion won (US$ 10.6 billion) to 12.7 trillion won (US$ 11.5 billion), according to a statement from the National Assembly Budget Office (NABO) on December 28. Korea’s tax revenue shortfall has been on the rise from 2.8 trillion won (US$ [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A simple, non-Active X online payment service will soon be available in Korea from major credit card companies. Starting December 29, customers will be able to make credit card payments for their online transactions by providing their ID number and a password. Major Korean credit card companies such as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign ministry said Sunday that at least three South Koreans were on board an AirAsia plane that went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore. The ministry said that a South Korean man and a woman in their 30s, and an infant were among the 162 passengers and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors’ net purchases of South Korean stocks nearly doubled in 2014 from the previous year thanks to ample liquidity in the United States and other major economies, data showed Sunday. Offshore investors bought a net 8.21 trillion won (US$7.47 billion) worth of local stocks in the first 11 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea again denied its involvement in the hacking of South Korea’s nuclear power station operator Sunday, calling the allegation “a trumped-up plot against the communist country.” The state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has suffered a series of cyber attacks that has raised safety concerns in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of five female university students in Korea is interested in getting plastic surgery in order to improve their chances of getting a job, a recent survey said. According to the survey conducted by the Youido Institute, 21.4 percent of female students surveyed replied “yes” when asked whether they [...]