SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Min-ho, a young Korean actor famous overseas as well as at home, is rising high in Asia even before the release of the first film in which he plays a leading role. The upcoming movie “Gangnam 1970″ has already been sold in Asia’s major markets such as Japan, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Web drama “Love Cell” is attracting the public’s interest. As more and more people watch TV on their mobile devices while on the go, dramas shown exclusively on the Internet are getting more popular. Since the first episode of Love Cell was aired on November 2, it has logged [...]
“Sony, once the world’s biggest and most successful electronics firm, is now unable to regain its former glory. That’s because, according to management gurus, of the working of the silo effect.” “Although Sony gave wide-ranging independence to its divisions in the name of responsible management, it only bred an insular management culture incapable of reciprocal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A new way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with a drop of blood sample was found as Korean scientists proved the correlations of the causative agent of the disease with its concentrations in the blood. The Brain Science Institute of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) led by senior [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Pushed by poor credit ratings by international rating agencies, Lotte Shopping plans to accelerate the process of improving its financial standing by selling retail properties. According to retail industry sources, Lotte Shopping, retail operator of Lotte Group, is in talks with Capstone Asset Management, an asset management firm specializing in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The limited edition of Sony’s “Xperia Z3 Silver Green” will hit the Korean store shelves. Famed-for its superb water-proof features, Sony’s Xperia Z3 models are available in white, silver green, bronze and black colors in the global market. According to Sony, the model is now up for sale in [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 5, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – GWC Inc. today announced the latest round of speakers for its third annual Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley 2014 (GMIC SV) taking place December 1-3 at Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, CA. GMIC SV is the largest mobile Internet conference in Silicon Valley hosting mobile [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Telegram will hold a security contest with award money of 300 million won. The company posted the message on its social networking service pages on November 4 to challenge the world’s hackers to breach its encryption system. The mobile messenger service became famous by the recent incident of a sudden [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s automobile registration number has surpassed the 20-million level. This is fourth among Asian countries following Japan (reached the milestone in 1972), China (2002), and India (2009), and 15th in the world. The single most popular model of all these cars was Hyundai’s Sonata while that for import brands was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Hae-jin, a Korean actor famous for his role in TV dramas such as East of Eden, recently met with young perpetrators who spread bad rumors about him and his family on the Internet in a village where he delivered charcoal briquettes for low-income families in south Seoul. On [...]