SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of individuals seeking treatment for ear-related diseases has reached around 6 million every year. To celebrate ‘Ear Day’ on September 9, The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service issued a report about statistics related to ear diseases. The number of patients who have been treated since 2010 [...]
Samsung Card ran a pilot program for ‘Samsung Pay’, Samsung’s mobile payment system, with its members. Most users responded positively, as 86.4 percent reused the service. (Image : Samsung Pay Homepage) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Card ran a pilot program for ‘Samsung Pay’, Samsung’s mobile payment system, with its members. Most users [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A consortium led by Seoul-based private equity fund MBK Partners clinched a 7.2 trillion won (US$5.98 billion) deal to acquire U.K.-based retail giant Tesco Plc‘s Korean unit, marking the nation’s largest takeover deal. MBK said it struck the stock purchase agreement with Tesco in Hong Kong a week after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – City car sales in South Korea hit the highest level in eight months in August, driven by a spike in demand for the latest edition of the Spark launched by GM Korea, industry data showed Tuesday. Sales of city cars with an engine displacement of smaller than 1,000 cc [...]
“History is a common asset, not a bowl that a filmmaker can lock in his own world. Reinterpreting history in a director’s own way is a job requiring a grave sense of responsibility.” “About 70 to 80 percent of the lines are from the historical materials. I closely looked into all available history records such [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At IFA 2015 in Berlin, Germany, Samsung Electronics attracted visitors with a unique cooking show combining dishes made by world-class chefs and virtual reality. The “Cine des Chefs” event, which began with the official opening of the IFA on September 4, showed how culinary masters make dishes with Samsung’s “Chef [...]
INCHEON, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As fireworks and a rock concert have been included by organizers at a forthcoming event to commemorate the victory of the Incheon Landing Operation during the Korean War, some groups are raising concern that the real reasons for the commemoration, to remember a bloody victory and those who lost [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A tax investigation into high-income professional workers such as lawyers and doctors showed that they turned out to have omitted an average of 330,000 won from every 1,000,000 won they made, and the overlooked amount is increasing. According to the National Tax Service, the average portion of income omitted [...]
SEOUL, Sept.7 (Korea Bizwire) – Youkes (Chinese tourists) have chosen Korea as the kindest country they have visited. According to Hotels.com, an online hotel reservation site, 14 percent of Chinese tourists answered that Korea was the kindest country they have visited, with Thailand (9 percent) and Japan (7 percent) ranked next. The countries that Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The 66th Frankfurt Motor Show will be held in Germany for 11 days starting on September 17. According to the host IAA, 1,103 car companies and automobile part suppliers from 39 countries will attend the event to showcase their new vehicles, cars in development, and gear. A total of 210 [...]