SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans now have a theater where people can see old and new Chinese films all the time. The theater opened Friday in a ceremony attended by officials from the Jongno Ward Office in Seoul and the Chinese Cultural Center in South Korea. The two organizations jointly run the Chinese [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Watsons, Asia’s largest drugstore, is launching its first official online shopping site (https://shop.watsons.co.kr) and mobile application on April 2. Watsons Korea explains that the online mall and mobile application will hold all of the various brands offline Watsons stores have in stock. To celebrate the opening, customers who sign [...]
BUSAN, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – On the first day of the official election campaign, a college student was arrested for tearing down posters as part of his expression of rage at high tuition fees. The police from Busan’s Nambu Station announced that they are currently investigating university student Kim (20) for damaging election posters. [...]
JEJU, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first cherry blossom festival of the year kicked off on Jeju Island Friday, with visitors hailing from around the country and overseas gathering to celebrate the origin of the globally cherished flower. The 25th “Jeju Cherry Blossom Festival” officially launched at Jeonnong-ro, about 3.3 kilometers east of [...]
SEJONG, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two budget carriers have been slapped with 600 million won (US$524,000) in fines each for breaching flight safety regulations, the transportation ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport imposed the highest financial penalty on Jeju Air Co., owned by the mid-sized retailer Aekyung Group, [...]
GOSEONG, April 1 (Yonhap) - The Gate of Dinosaur opened here Friday to greet visitors, marking the start of a 73-day spectacle. The Gyeongnam Goseong Dinosaur World Expo promises to let people travel through time and get a glimpse of prehistoric life, bringing a number of dinosaurs back to life with cutting-edge technology. This year’s show, the fourth [...]
CHEONJU, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A bull running loose along a highway in central South Korea stopped traffic on Friday before being captured by police officers, police said. Around 7:07 a.m., the 7-month-old bull jumped over a guardrail on southbound lanes of the Jungbu Highway in Ochang, a town in the central province of North [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – LG‘s new smartphone, which was launched on March 31, is drawing attention as its ancillary devices are more expensive than the phone itself. A customer would have to spend two million won to purchase the new G5 accompanied by its five ‘friends’ (accompanying devices). According to industry reports, the lowest [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The director of ‘Descendants of the Sun‘, the TV drama which is taking Korea and China by storm, recently revealed details about the casting process. In an interview with China’s Xinhua News Agency in Seoul, director Lee Eung-bok said that Song Joong-ki was not the first choice for the role. [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co. said on Friday it sold more than 9,000 units of the Chevrolet Spark mini car in March, the strongest monthly performance since its domestic debut in October 2002. The sales jumped by more than 80 percent from 4,889 units a month earlier. “The robust sales were driven by [...]