SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of subscribers to SK Telecom’s wearable phone targeting children group, “T Kids Phone JoonN,” hit the 50,000 mark as of September 24, largely driven by the rising concern on the safety of children from the parent as consumer. Launched on July 11, T Kids Phone JooN can be put on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Whilst the renewed Korea’s over-the-counter (OTC) market soared in transaction volume 15 times higher than the Freeboard, the former OTC market, in the first month of opening on August 25, Samsung SDS topped with almost 70 percent of the trading volume in the market. According to the Korea Financial Investment Association, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – After Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Choo Sung-hoon (Yoshihiro Akiyama in Japanese name) won his returning match in the “UFC Fight Night Japan” held at Saitama, Japan, on September 20, a Korean company which sponsored Choo couldn’t stop smiling. Body Friend, a healthcare company in Korea, estimated that thanks to the [...]
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“With it being classified as a special first-class hotel, The-K Seoul Hotel will achieve 50 billion won (US$48 million) of sales by 2017 and lead the hotel MICE industry in Korea.” “Globally, MICE business is being recognized as a new engine for economic growth and many countries are supporting the business at governmental level. In that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Bukwang Pharmaceutical, famous for anemia medicine Feroba, is expected to acquire Danish bio-venture firm Contera Pharma, which developed a new treatment material for Parkinson’s disease. After the acquisition, the Korean medical company will focus on the development of medicine for the disease. On September 23, Bukwang announced that it [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors’ “Soul” which was rated “poor” in a collision test last year drastically improved its crash-safety rating this year with new Soul 2015 model to “good.” The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) of the U.S. announced on September 16 the recent result of the small overlap test of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – With the honor that Samsung C&T garnered in the Grand Safety Award in MTR Safety Award sponsored by MTRC of Hong Kong, the construction company now tries to dispel Koreans’ worries over the recent sinkholes in southeast Seoul during its subway construction works in Seoul. Recently, the Hong Kong Transit Railway [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A financial consumer organization warned more caution when dealing with foreign life insurance companies as they committed more financial frauds than Korean counterparts. According to the Korea Finance Consumer Federation (KFCF)’s analysis on the status of financial frauds including misappropriation of 24 life insurers for the past three years, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – For the past five years, the amount of money unclaimed by lotto winners surpassed 200 billion won (US$192 million), according to the Korea Lottery Committee. According to the report from the lottery committee submitted to the ruling Saenuri Party (New Frontier Party) lawmaker Park Myung-jae, the unrecovered lotto prize money [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – It is quite enough to say a national fever. A new football star who has been brought into sudden prominence among Korean football fans, scored five goals in all the four games in the ongoing Asian Football Confederation U-16 Championship. He is Lee Seung-woo and is called “Korean Messi.” It is [...]