SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will start to sell its latest flagship smartphone, the G5, around the globe later this week, three weeks after the debut of the Galaxy S7 series by its archrival Samsung Electronics Co. The South Korean tech giant said the G5 will come with a price tag [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is badly in need of exporting more consumer goods to China to help improve a longstanding imbalance between export items and gain a share in the rapidly-growing consumer goods market there, a bank report said Wednesday. In 2014, Korea topped other countries by posting US$190 billion in [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – As the demand for fresh, healthy juice products is rising, new products are flooding into the market. According to the market research company LinkAztec, the Korean ‘squeezed juice’ market grew 30 percent from 21 billion won in 2013 to 27.5 billion won last year. To meet consumer demand for [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean TV stations have recently been airing war-related movies on a daily basis. The North Korean central news agency aired a program called ‘Chosun Art Films – from 5 o’clock to 5 o’clock’ on March 28. The 78-minute movie that was produced in 1980 tells the story of the [...]
The Korean government has announced plans to develop original technology to realize law or tax consultations and even simultaneous interpretation through artificial intelligence (AI). (Image : Shutterstock) SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government has announced plans to develop original technology to realize law or tax consultations and even simultaneous interpretation through artificial [...]
SUWON, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent survey results show that sports club activities make school more fun for students. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education conducted a survey on 2,761 students from elementary school to high school during the month of February. Results of the survey showed that more than half of the students [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea opened three more “startup” cafes aimed at helping foster the launch of creative businesses by young adults on Tuesday in partnership with the government. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Presidential Committee on the Young Generation have reached out to the local arm [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of 76 small and medium-sized bookstores are ready to open a portal online service to provide various information on books and bookstores as they are struggling to find a way out from financial difficulties, according to publishing industry sources on Tuesday. The Korea Federation of Bookstore Association [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Ukrainian photographer Vitaliy Raskalov created a buzz after he posted a photo taken from the 123rd floor of Jamsil’s Lotte World Tower. On March 27, Raskalov posted a picture captioned, “Get ready for the new video. Seoul, Lotte World Tower, 610 meters tall”. As the glass walls of Lotte [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) system has selected globally ‘hot’ products, with the world’s interest in AI increasing following the epic Go match between Google Deep Mind’s AlphaGo and professional Go player Lee Se-dol. Previously, there have been many cases in which consumer reports, journals or market assessment bodies selected products [...]