SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As controversies continue over the harmful chemical materials in wet tissues, the Korean government has made a countermeasure to reinforce its safety management by categorizing it as a cosmetic product. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Aug. 19 that it would include wet tissues for sanitation purpose [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – After a year of reformation, Kara came back as a four-member girl group with its title song “Mamma Mia” of its sixth mini album “Day & Night.” In the accompanied music video of “Mamma Mia,” especially, Goo Ha-ra is swaying male fans’ hearts with her doll-like beauty. In the music video [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Line, NHN Group‘s global messenger application company, announced that it opened a “Line Pop-up Store” in Lotte Department Store’s Jamsil branch and will keep the store open until September 10. The store will offer various living goods including mugs and T-shirts designed with Line characters. The products not only include [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — After President Park Geun-Hye publicly denounced the prevalent mannerism in the financial industry, financial authorities are considering adopting long-term performance-based incentive payment schemes such as “stock grant” for commercial bank employees to remedy the situation. Most banks have already adopted long-term incentive payment systems, but only executives and high-ranking managers are allowed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced that it is willing to resume various inter-Korean projects such as reconstruction of highways and railroads in North Korea for the mutual economic cooperation within this year with one string attached: the restoration of inter-Korean relationship. With the condition, South Korea added that it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung is spurring to the expansion of its business sector of batteries for electronic vehicles as a new cash cow for the group, amid the ailing group chairperson Lee Kun-hee and the falling sales of its smartphones. Vice Chairperson Lee Jae-yong of Samsung is known to pay particular attention in the sector [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A study revealed that the annual consumption amount of marine products from households has dropped over 800 billion won (about US$786 million) in the past three years in Korea. Such result seems to be due to a plunge in demand of fishery products which require tricky preparation before their cooking, [...]
Tokyo, Aug 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Tanaka Holdings Co., Ltd. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) today announced that Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates the Tanaka Precious Metals’ manufacturing business, has developed “PersonalA1c”, a highly sensitive screening kit enabling simple testing of diabetes in approximately 10 minutes by using colloidal gold. Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo plans to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mega-hit blockbuster K-drama “My Love from the Star“, which engulfed the entire China into a “Xing Ni” – a nickname for the show in Mandarin – syndrome last winter, will be re-created into a mobile game and is expected to once again fascinate the Chinese market. WeMade Entertainment, Korea’s mobile [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, a tip became the talk of town that a wet smartphone can be easily resuscitated by an electric rice cooker and can be recovered with this simple remedy. The tip is that when a wet smartphone, with its battery detached, is dried up by practically using the rice cooker’s function [...]