SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean location-based coupon application provider YAP Company on Thursday launched a new app that provides Chinese tourists with various tourism-related information, including shopping and transportation. The app, dubbed KAYO, provides a selection of coupons and other information for 100,000 local shops at popular tourist destinations, including Seoul’s major shopping [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top smartphone maker Samsung Electronics said Thursday its mobile payment solution has processed tractions totaling US$30 million in the month after its debut in South Korea. The South Korean giant officially released Samsung Pay at home on Aug. 20. The platform, available for Samsung’s high-end smartphones, including [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to strengthen its customized statistics service in line with the “Government 3.0” era, Statistics Korea will reorganize its structure and establish an office devoted to big data analysis. With the reorganization, the national statistics office will transform its Information and Service Bureau into a Statistics Data Hub [...]
ULSAN, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Unionists from subcontractors of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will stage a campaign against HHI chairman Chung Mong-joon’s bid for election as FIFA chairman in Switzerland, where the headquarters of the International Labor Organization (ILO) are located. The Ulsan branch of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and trade unions from HHI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – State-of-the-art street light products developed by a Korean manufacturer are attracting the eyes of Americans, and are quietly generating export interest. Design Pole, a street light brand from Onegiup, recently won the “Best Booth” award at an exhibition organized by the American Public Works Association in Phoenix, Arizona, which was [...]
DAEGU, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jukjeon Elementary School is providing school lunches that are customized for students from Muslim families. For the five Muslim students attending the school, a different menu has been prepared since May, with pork replaced by eggs or beans. Faculty at the school explained the reason for the change. “There were [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The apparel industry is channeling clothing into ‘strategy’ and is starting to offer image consulting services to businesses. Samsung C&T announced that it will launch a professional fashion coaching service called ‘Gentleman Company Project’. Gentleman Company Project is a business-to-business (B2B) project in which Samsung C&T, owner of various [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Samsung Serif TV, a product resulting from collaboration between Samsung Electronics and furniture designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, has been revealed at the London Design Festival. Samsung prepared a special exhibition at the always popular Somerset House, and will stage the Serif TV until September 27. The TV [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In the Chosun Dynasty, walking along the fortress walls of Seoul admiring the scenery was called ‘Soon Sung Nori’. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, along with Seoul KYC, is recruiting 560 people who wish to participate in a Soon Sung Nori experience. The event will be held on October 17, [...]
YEONGCHEON, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon announced that it will be launching a campaign called ‘Donation Reading, Donation Reader’, which contributes 10 won to savings for every page the cadets read. The collected funds will be used to buy books every quarter, and send them to welfare facilities, sanatoriums [...]