Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The design of seats reserved for expecting mothers in the trains of Seoul Metro will be renewed, so that they stand out more. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that they would renew the design of the ‘seats for expecting mothers’, so that subway passengers could yield their seats to pregnant women. The [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A conference gauging the progress of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, which are receiving attention as the multimedia services of the future, was held on July 22. SK Telecom hosted a forum to discuss the present and future of immersive multimedia services such as augmented reality and virtual reality. [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – It has become possible to watch a movie in bed, even if you’re actually at a movie theater. Tempur Cinema, a multiplex theater with Tempur beds, has opened at CGV CINE de CHEF in Apgujeong. CINE de CHEF is a cultural space with a premium multiplex theater, a restaurant of 80 [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced that they would be providing their 103 semiconductor partners with incentives worth a total of 14.2 billion won for the first half of the year. This is the largest incentive to be offered in the first half of the year, both in the number of target companies and [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – How do female golfers blow off steam when they have matches every week? At a press conference held by the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Hite-Jinro Championship at the Westin Chosun Hotel, golfers created a light atmosphere as they talked about how they release stress. First, Jeon In-ji (21, [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has reported that 8 out of 10 Korean adults say they have had a headache during the past month. When itemized by day, the majority of respondents answered that they experienced a headache on Monday. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson Korea [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The sales of ‘Healing hobby items’ of analog sensibility are increasing in the current digitally flooded society. AK Mall (www.akmall.com), an online shopping site, notes that sales of fountain pens, calligraphy pens, colored pencils, colored paper, connect-the-dots and coloring books have showed drastic growth compared to the same period last [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – WeMakePrice, a Korean social commerce company that went through a major PR fiasco after firing and rehiring 11 merchandising assistants earlier this year, has chosen to offer stock options to all of its regular workers. A stock option is a contract between an employer and its employees in which [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that all traces of resident registration numbers on the Internet will be removed by the end of this year. According to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) on July 21, as the revised Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection has entered into effect, [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) - ‘A’, a woman in her 30s, heard some disturbing news from her friends in May 2013. ‘A’ had been going to the annual Boryeong Mud Festival for the previous three years, and her friends told her that her picture was on a poster promoting the festival that featured prominently on [...]