SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey has shown that high school students in Korea sleep less than an average of six hours a day, and stay at school for over 12 hours every day. Asunaro, a human rights group for adolescents, points out that a lack of sleep and free time due to [...]
Yangyang, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - “I learned that if you work together, children can pull an airplane.” An unusual contest where contestants pull an airplane with manpower has been held at the Yangyang International Airport. The event was hosted by the FunFun Cultural Foundation to help children with cancer. It is a common event [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Kukkiwon, the World Taekwondo Headquarters, will start a permanent Taekwondo demonstration for visitors as well as those practicing the sport. The demonstration will be in the form of a performance that shows Taekwondo in an artful state. The performance will be staged at 5 p.m., from Monday to Friday. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Coupang (www.coupang.com), the online shopping site, will start a service next month called ‘Market Place’, which connects sellers with consumers. From a consumer’s point of view, nothing much will change. Up until now, Coupang provided a ‘retail service’ or ‘curation service’, in which they select and buy the items [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – As violations by hidden cameras have become a recent social issue, products that protect privacy such as protection film or hidden camera detectors are in high demand. According to GMarket, an online shopping site, sales of hidden camera detectors during the recent month (July 25 to August 24) jumped 250 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Sampo Generation’ which is the Korean version of ‘millennials’, who gave up employment, marriage and child birth, have turned out to be more conservative than the Generation X or Baby Boomers when it comes to asset management. Those in the Sampo Generation prefer to invest in deposit and installment [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – As the season changes, chilies are ripening. As chilies ripen, chili festivals are also bearing their fruit all over the nation. The Goesan Chili Festival will be held from August 27 to August 30, under the theme ‘A good day for chilies! Have a summer picnic in Goesan!’. The 19th Gochang [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – At a recent bicycle fair, Samsung SDI unveiled various E-bike battery products including a battery pack enabling riders to cycle up to 100km on a single charge. On August 26, Samsung SDI, the global leader in battery cells, announced that it showed off its advanced Li-ion battery products for e-bikes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telink, the international carrier services division of SK Telecom, announced that it had successfully demonstrated high quality voice international call technology (VoLTE) based on an LTE network. VoLTE stands out as the highest quality voice service, offering low-frequency LTE spectrum usage, enabling network efficiency and reduced operational expenditure [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – “How about staging a fashion show where models walk the runway in clothes made at the Mallijae-gil sewing factories?” (Seoul Citizen, Hwang Se-hee) “A diving contest in which people jump off the overpass to an artificial pool that is only set in summer at the lower part of Manllidong [...]