SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM has announced that it will concentrate on Internet-of-Things (IoT) businesses in the B2B (business to business) sector, and strengthen cooperation with Korea. At an IoT strategy briefing, Jack Desjardins, who is the vice-president at IBM in charge of the global business development of IoT, talked about possibilities in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Lee Min-ho is found to be the most beloved Korean star among Arabs, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey of 3,000 Arabs on their perception toward South Korea, the largest number of respondents, or 14.8 percent, cited the 29-year-old actor as the first who comes to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Two teenage students who studied abroad in China were caught after they were involved in a voice phishing crime in which they attempted to steal money from the elderly. According to law enforcement officials, Koo (aged 19) and his friend broke into an elderly woman’s house and stole 17,460,000 [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The first Korean ‘Black Friday’ shopping event, which was initiated by the government and promoted across the country over the past two weeks, ended on October 14. The event was a desperate attempt by the government to boost consumption, with domestic demand frozen and exports low. The promotion benchmarked [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Foreign visitors here will have a chance to learn how to dance just like K-pop idols from professional choreographers, the Seoul municipal government said Thursday. It is part of the city’s efforts to provide foreign tourists with diverse hands-on experiences while being here so as to attract more of them [...]
Research shows that a small heat shock protein that intercepts the abnormal coherence of regular protein holds the key to curing Alzheimer’s disease. (Image : PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay) SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that a small heat shock protein that intercepts the abnormal coherence of regular protein holds the key to curing [...]
NAMWON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Soop Gil’ (meaning ‘forest road’), an organization that manages the Jirisan Dulle-gil walking trail, announced that it will hold the fifth ‘Jirisan Dulle-gil Walking Festival’ on November 7. The route will be approximately 11 kilometers, starting at Jirisan’s Baraebong Peak entrance, passing through Heungbugol Natural Recreation Forest, and ending [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - The amount of toy imports in South Korea rose to a record level in the first eight months of this year on robust demand for character robots, government data showed Thursday. The inbound shipment of kids’ toys reached a record US$444 million in the January-August period, up 6.6 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A traditional Hanbok (traditional Korean outfit) designed by a young Korean designer caught the eyes of visitors at a fashion show in Hong Kong. Designer Jo Jin-woo displayed traditional and modern Hanbok at the Korea·Hong Kong Fashion Exchange held at PMQ Hong Kong. Jo Jin-woo is a designer for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding of 32.7 billion won will be offered by the government to develop core technology in the bio, metallic material and chemical processing fields. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) announced that it will support new projects together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and [...]