SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol admitted to feeling “surprised” after losing the first match of the five-game showdown against computer on Wednesday. “I didn’t think I’d lose, and I was quite surprised,” Lee told a press conference in Seoul after succumbing to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo. Lee [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s industry ministry said Wednesday it will make efforts to provide Samsung Electronics Co. with a stable power supply to its new factory under construction in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, in line with its efforts to eradicate hurdles in corporate investment. The remark came as the South Korean tech giant [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A campaign promoting the instruction of Korean to Korean-American children has been launched in New York. New York City launched its ‘Talk to Your Baby’ program at the Flushing Library in cooperation with the Korean Consulate General in New York. The program is targeting Korean communities in the area. The [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Online book stores are pushing back their deadlines for same-day delivery, and jumping into the current delivery war that started when Coupang launched its ‘Rocket Delivery’ service. While the bookstores’ new service is expected to attract more customers, concerns over driver safety are increasing. Yes 24, the largest online bookstore [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean powdered milk producers are in the midst of expanding their foothold in China, seeking to cash in on the growing popularity of imported dairy products among the increasingly health-conscious Chinese consumers, industry officials said Wednesday. The Korean milk companies also view the vast Chinese market as a [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s Skin Co., South Korea’s fourth-largest cosmetic maker, said Wednesday it will enter the Indian market through a partnership with local retail giant Dabur India. It’s Skin signed a memorandum of understanding with Dabur to sell 120 kinds of cosmetics in its New U beauty retail chain, stepping up [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A plan to adopt a system in which doctors evaluate their colleagues’ performance is under consideration. When a doctor is suffers from a problematic condition such as an illness, colleagues will evaluate whether he or she is fit to practice medicine. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that they [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – All eyes are on the Go battle of the century, the showdown of man versus artificial intelligence. With the world watching on in awe, AlphaGo turned in a much better performance than expected, and won the first match of the five-match series. However, amidst news of the victory, new [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Women who migrated to Korea to marry Korean men are using their language skills to cultivate meaningful careers, by establishing cooperative associations and social ventures that provide translation services. According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, there are approximately 850,000 foreign brides in Korea, representing 45 percent of [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government survey confirmed Wednesday many one-person households here have abnormal eating habits and are vulnerable to malnutrition. One in three people living alone skip breakfast, according to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, a state-funded think tank. It conducted a survey of 500 single-person households and the same number [...]