SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – At the recent WorldSkills Competition held in Sao Paulo, Vietnam won its first ever medal. The spotlight came to the honorable winner, Nguyen Duy Thanh, but Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics was behind the stage supporting Thanh’s historic achievement. According to WorldSkills, organizer of the biennial skills competition, Thanh won [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Hyundai Motor reshuffled personnel in China in a bid to boost its performance in the world’s second-largest economy. The company appointed Tan Tao-hung, the vice president of sales in Sichuan, as the head of Chinese strategies, Lee Byung-ho, who was vice president of the machinery & vehicle parts division, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Japanese individuals that were reported by the Korean press for making thoughtless remarks during the past 10 years, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister ranked No.1 in terms of the number of mentions. Abe has made seemingly careless remarks about delicate issues that created a conflict between [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – During the past 4 years, approximately 60,000 drivers have been caught driving to work while they were drunk. According to the police, the number of drivers caught for drunk driving between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. during the 2011 to 2014 period was 59,407. Among them, 25,268 had their [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Songdo Waterfront Project’ is schedule to start in the latter half of this year. The project will connect the canals and lakes around Songdo International City in the Incheon Free Economic Zone. The local government announced that they would establish a master plan for the Songdo Waterfront Project in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers and food manufacturers are expanding their ready-to-eat meal products to cater to the country’s rapidly growing single households who opt to eat in, partly to save time and money, market watchers said Wednesday. Retailers and food makers, in turn, are swiftly moving to increase their market [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday it will construct a multipurpose cultural facility where foreigners can experience traditional Korean culture in Seoul’s city center. The facility, named the “K-Experience,” will be located next to Gyeongbok Palace, at the former site of a residential building for the U.S. Embassy. Separately, the gymnastics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean singer CL, who is set to make her U.S. debut this fall, has been named one of the top 10 must-know artists by Rolling Stone magazine. The list of “10 New Artists You Must Know” was revealed online Monday, local time, with the 24-year-old sharing space with [...]
“Korea has a strong economic strength, and many fine customers, which makes it a very important market to SC Group. We are completely committed to Korea. We never thought of selling the Korea SC Bank, as we have a good brand here.” - Bill Winters, CEO of SC Group SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – [...]
GYEONGJU, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “I’m just keeping my promise to donate it all.” Park Dae-sung, master of Korean painting, donated 830 pieces of his art as well as belongings to open the Gyeongju Solgeo Museum of Art. The Solgeo Museum of Art will consist of two parts, the Park Dae-sung exhibit and a [...]