SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Eight out of 10 of smartphone users in Korea download music files and then listen to them instead of streaming music. ESTsoft, the company that provides the ALSong music player, revealed the results of a survey conducted on the consumption patterns of smartphone users. The survey was conducted online, and [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Animals that have died or were euthanized because of foot and mouth disease or Avian Influenza (AI) can now be used in the manufacturing of fertilizer and feed. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that it has renewed its notifications on the list of diseases for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a saying that ginseng could be a medicine of a poison depending on one’s physical constitution, but red ginseng is good for everyone. Seems like the saying also applies to pets. The Korea Ginseng Corporation announced that it will be releasing a new line of pet food containing red [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan Film Festival had a showcase of six rising young stars representing South Korea, Japan and Taiwan on Monday. The panel included Kim Woo-bin and Kim Go-eun from South Korea, Taiwan-based stars Mark Chao and Sandrine Pinna, and Takeru Satoh and Masami Nagasawa of Japan. The “casting board” event selects one male and female [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists, famous for leaving shelves bare when they shop abroad, went on a a shopping spree in Korea, Japan and the U.S. during the National Holiday of the People’s Republic of China. According to a Chinese journal, many Chinese tourists visited Korea and Japan during the holidays, with [...]
MUNGYEONG, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) - A very special final match was held at the 2015 Gyeongbuk Mungyeong Military World Games on October 4. The event was shot put. Only two athletes were enrolled in the event, so they went straight to the finals without the preliminaries. Sergeant Elizabeth Wersil (25) from the U.S. and army [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) - Penalties for violations of car safety and environmental standards are expected to reach as much as 10 billion won due to the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal. Criticism was brought up that the recent limitation for penalties, currently set at 1 billion won, is too low to have any effectiveness. According [...]
“I wanted to alert the Korean people to their insensitivity towards peace.” “Yasukuni shrine is a symbolic icon that hides the claws of Japan, that can start a war again. I burned the pictures thinking that I was burning down the shrine.” - Photographer Kwon Chul JEJU, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A pile of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A spike in local cigarette taxes is expected to push up the amount of next year’s tobacco tax revenue on par with what the government receives from salaried workers, a local civic group claimed Monday. According to the Korea Taxpayers Association, cigarette tax revenue is estimated to top 12.6 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With Fiat-Chrysler also creating controversy by manipulating the number of accidents caused by their cars not long after Volkswagen slapped the whole world in the face, the credibility of foreign motor brands is dropping faster than the temperature these days. Sales of foreign cars over the past two weeks have decreased [...]