SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – “It’s amazing to harvest honey not in rural areas but in cities. Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity as it provides economic benefits as well as a healthier environment,” a Korea Beekeeping Association (KBA) official said. “Urban beekeeping,” also called hobby beekeeping or backyard beekeeping, is no more a strange [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of LINE messenger users operated by the Japanese arm of South Korea’s top portal provider Naver Corp. has surpassed the 1 billion mark five years after its launch in 2011, the company said Thursday. The number of monthly active users, or MAU, of the social networking mobile application stood at 215 million globally as of [...]
ULSAN, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A safety drill to raise awareness and ensure adequate preparation for tsunamis was recently held in Ulsan. Although Koreans feel the need for safety drills when watching earthquakes and tsunamis hit other countries, as Korea is often considered to be a ‘safety zone’, these types of drills are often neglected. The [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of business hotels targeting foreigners is increasing, price competition is getting fierce. Hotel Shilla’s ‘Shilla Stay’ business hotel brand, a recent entrant to the market, is being blamed for lowering profits industrywide due to lower prices compared to other business hotel chains. According to data from [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest smartphone and memory chip maker by sales, said Thursday it will overhaul its corporate culture to improve efficiency and productivity at its workplace. The electronics giant has recently suffered a decline in its mainstay smartphone business and lack of new growth drivers. In [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A television program for Korean language education will air throughout China in the second half of the year, the first of its kind in the Chinese-speaking world, a government agency said Thursday. China Education Television (CETV) will broadcast the program composed of 100 three-minute episodes from October to next [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Venture capitalists continued to pour money into South Korean startup companies this year on hopes for handsome returns following last year’s success amid cheap available capital, data showed Thursday. The investment in startup companies was tallied at 253 billion won (US$216 million) in the first two months of the year, [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean red ginseng, a medicinal plant known here as “hongsam,” has been found to be effective in fighting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, a South Korean research team said Thursday, citing a local patient surviving solely on red ginseng for about 30 years. The patient was diagnosed as HIV positive [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced to a level so high that it can beat a human in a ‘Go’ match, it was revealed that men think even love can be replaced with AI, while women remain skeptical. Matchmaking agency Duo announced the results of a survey [...]