HAM-AN, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The third Gangju Sunflower Festival is coming up, as it will be held for three days starting on September 5. Residents of five villages including Gangju, Munhyun, Daepyung, Hwangsa and Nesong are hosting the festival together. The region is famous for its sunflowers. Local residents started planting sunflowers a [...]
CHANGWON, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Muhak, a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages, announced that it has opened a new shrine to liquor called the Good Day Museum. The museum holds 3,000 different types of liquor from 120 countries. It being the largest liquor museum, officials from Muhak say that the value of alcoholic beverages combined [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, Korea’s top tech giant, is set to introduce a device promising a better sleep at the forthcoming IFA 2015 to be held in Berlin, Germany, on September 4. Samsung’s SLEEPsense connects to the Internet and home appliances to provide a better environment for sleeping, by analyzing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Statistics Korea and Naver, the top big data holders in the public and private sectors respectively, have joined hands to create public value based on big data. On September 2, Statistics Korea announced that it signed an MoU with Naver, Korea’s top Internet portal operator, to construct a society prediction [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – When the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome swept Korea earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center was at the center of the epidemic, not as a healing center for the deadly disease, but as the source of the outbreak. Among the 186 patients who contracted MERS, almost half (91) were infected at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family shows that when children get married, the parents of the groom spend about 80 million won, while the parents of the bride spend about 60 million won. Due to the high costs of preparing a wedding, most brides [...]
HAMPYEONG, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Hampyeong-gun has announced that they will be holding a ‘Super Pumpkin Contest’ at the Hampyeong Expo Park on October 16. The purpose of the contest is to advertise the marketability of Hampyeong pumpkins and provide visitors of the 2015 Gukhyang Festival with an attraction. Any kind of pumpkin other than [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – As the popularity of cooking shows is growing, sales of kitchen utensils used on TV are increasing. According to Homeplus, during the four-month period from May to August, sales of cleaver knives jumped 450 percent compared to the same period last year. As programs such as ‘Please Take Care [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spent more at duty-free shops this year after the government widened tax breaks last year, while domestic consumption remained in the doldrums, a survey showed Thursday. According to the survey conducted by online travel agency Expedia on 1,000 salaried workers between the ages of 20 and 49 in the [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Inter-Korean trade in the first seven months of this year recovered to levels before Seoul imposed blanket sanctions against the North for the sinking of its naval ship, government data showed Thursday, thanks to increased exchange via a joint industrial complex. According to the Korea Customs Service (KCS) data, the [...]