SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Dropping water levels at Seokchon Lake in Songpa District, Seoul, have been caused by the construction of Lotte World Tower, Korea’s tallest skyscraper, and work on subway Line 9 nearby. The Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed its research into the lake’s dropping water levels on August 6. According to the city, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Sulli will leave South Korean girl group f(x) to focus on acting, her management agency said Friday. SM Entertainment said it has decided to “honor her wish to leave the group and concentrate on her acting” after having a discussion with the 21-year-old. The announcement put an end to rampant rumors [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Emart announced that they will start an innovative campaign to obtain a competitive edge in the large discount store business. Jung Yong-jin, vice-president of Shinsegae Group, posted the news on his Facebook account. “The new Emart will have to think about ways to give people a reason to come to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display has announced plans to invest an additional 230 billion won to enlarge manufacturing facilities in Vietnam. According to officials from Bac Ninh in northern Vietnam, Samsung Display received the approval of the Vietnamese government to increase their scale of investment from $100 million (120 billion won) to $300 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Research has shown that teenagers who were exposed to cigarette advertisements had a higher tendency to smoke when they grew up. Professor Shin Sung-re from the Department of Nursing Science at SamYook University published the results of his research on the cause-and-effect relationship between teens having experience watching cigarette [...]
“I think there’s no need to live if I didn’t have family. It was my family that supported me when I was going through a four-year slump, which felt like an endless rut at the time. I met my husband and decided not to quit when I was thinking of retiring from golf. I am [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor announced on August 6 that its Tucson was named the best compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) by automotive magazines in Germany. The compact SUV ranked first in its segment after receiving 557 points out of a possible 750 in a safety evaluation of four models carried out by Auto [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, saw its sales in China plunge over 30 percent in July from a year earlier in the face of intensifying competition from local brands, industry and company sources said Thursday. According to the sources, Hyundai Motor sold 54,160 cars last month, down from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seonjeongneung, one of the green spaces in Seoul, has turned out to lower the temperature of the region by two degrees. The results were derived from a National Institute of Meteorological Sciences study of temperatures at Seonjeongneung and the area nearby over the past two years. Seonjeongneung is a [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A device that can help to track down people that are lost at sea has been developed. The Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration announced that they have developed a wearable device that can be used to locate people at beaches and in mud if any kind of accident were [...]