SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — After five years since its groundbreaking, “Lotte Center Hanoi,” the 272-meter-high skyscraper in Hanoi constructed by Lotte Group, is finally ready for grand opening on Vietnam’s National Liberation Day, September 2. According to Lotte Asset Development on August 27, what will be the landmark of Vietnam’s capital city with 14,000 square [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Channel Breeze, the service provider of an app “Jik-Bang” — an application that provides information on studios or “one-rooms” for rent — has announced on August 26 that they have been funded 3 billion won (about US$2.9 million) from a U.S. venture capital firm, Altos Ventures. Channel Breeze has recently [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent poll suggested that Korea’s most favorite novelist is Bernard Werber. The creative and inspiring writer with his own unique style of storytelling who has been calling Korea his “second home” has once again proven to be one of the most-liked novelists of all time for Korean readers. YES24, Korea’s [...]
![[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Executive-Portrait_Sirgoo-Lee-Co-CEO-of-Kakao.jpg "[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider")
“With differentiated core competitiveness of Kakao and Daum, we will lead the mobile age and the next age after the mobile age. For it, we will expand our influential power not only in the domestic market but in the global market.” “The new Daum Kakao will grow as a lifestyle service platform provider putting together [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean LED tech firm Seeluce gears up to advance into the value-added LED application market armed with patented technology producing the world’s largest flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its flexible lighting module (FLM) technology is estimated as a next-generation technology overcoming the limitations of the existing rigid PCB and flexible [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean start-up venture set up by a university student received a huge amount of capital investment from Silicon Valley venture capitalists. IAMCOMPANY, a firm operating a free education information app “IAMSCHOOL,” succeeded in inducing 1.5 billion won (US$1.48 million) from three venture capital firms. Its app funnels school announcements [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is stepping up efforts to cash in on a new emerging market in the Middle East’s Oman: the infrastructure sector which is estimated to be worth US$30 billion. Led by South Korean Deputy Minister Moon Jae-do, who is in charge of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the Hallyu — a wave of popular South Korean culture — sweeping through the entire Asia and now starting to invade the rest of the world, evident from K-pop YouTube videos gathering over 3 billion hits from total 225 countries, “K-pop Expo in Asia,” which will be the largest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An OECD report shows that the working hours of Korean employees is second-longest in last year among those of OECD member countries. The working hours for Koreans were 1.3 times longer than that of the OECD average, and 1.6 times longer than that of the Netherlands, where the employees worked for [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) and Bank of Montreal - Financial Results Highlights: Third Quarter 2014 Compared with Third Quarter 2013: – Net income of $1,126 million; adjusted net income(1) of $1,162 million, up 4% – EPS(2) of $1.67, up 1%; adjusted EPS(1,2) of $1.73, up 4% [...]