SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Hyori, the South Korean female singer famous now more for supporting animal rights cause, surprised the nation by making remarks on workers fighting to get back to their workplace. She said on December 18 on her Twitter account, “I want the new car Tivoli at Ssangyong Motor to sell [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Even though the instance of suddenly losing power while driving is on the rise, auto manufacturers have not done anything to address the problem including refund or replacement of faulty cars. According to the Korea Consumer Agency on December 22, the number of faulty ignition cases received through its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Since the explosive popularity of the “Honey Butter Chip,” potato chip snack makers have come up with new varieties with diverse flavors such as chili, lobster, cheese & onion, and black pepper. E-Mart, Korea’s largest discount outlet operator, said on December 22 that it would launch four private label [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus said on December 22 that it has developed Korea’s first system to block spam text messages with commercial images. The system will be linked to the Korea Internet & Security Agency’s spam blocking server that stores 130,000 spam images. An image-based spam is a kind of spam [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — At the 2015 International CES in Las Vegas, LG Electronics (LG) will showcase its new Music Flow Wi-Fi Series lineup for music and movie lovers worldwide. The lineup includes the company’s first battery-powered Wi-Fi Speaker (Model H4 Portable), advanced Wi-Fi Sound Bars (Models HS7 and HS91) and the Streaming 3D Blu-ray [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In South Korea, however, desire for increasingly “standardized beauty” leads to a plastic surgery boom and this phenomenon entails expensive price, costing a life in some cases. According to Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, a woman in her twenties died on December [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that it will hold a competition called “Big data Analytic Festival (BAF)” in partnership with Data Solution, a Korean data analysis company. The telecommunications provider is also planning to crystallize several business plans from the competition’s big data analyses on moviegoers, campers, healthy-eaters, and senior citizens. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “My Love, Don’t Cross That River,” the documentary film directed by Jin Mo-young, has attracted 2 million viewers in 24 days since its opening in Korea. According to box office figures compiled by the Korean Film Council, the popular movie had attracted 2,002,490 viewers as of December 20. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In professional athletic events such as baseball, basketball and soccer games, there are always cheerleaders appearing between innings, breaks between quarters or during the half-time break. Spectators usually assume they are low-paid college coed part-timers. But some of them are as high-priced as the athletes themselves. Park Ki-ryang, a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said on December 21 that it would start selling a 34-inch ultra-wide curved monitor “SE790C” in the home market. The SE790C is the latest monitor model of Samsung that won a CES Innovation award ahead of the CES 2015 to be held in January next year. The new [...]