SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean actor Jung Woo-sung plans to meet Syrian refugees in Lebanon as part of efforts to enhance public awareness of the humanitarian crisis, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. Jung has worked as a “goodwill ambassador” for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2014. He will meet [...]
INCHEON, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon mayor Yoo Jeong-bok recently suggested that the front door of city hall should be opened for all citizens, not just for the mayor. When entering Incheon City Hall, the center door doesn’t open for Incheon citizens. Even though there is an automatic sensor, the door won’t budge. It doesn’t [...]
SEJONG, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – To protect Korean brands (K-brands), the Korea Customs Office and the Korean Intellectual Property Office will cooperate with customs offices in foreign countries. The Korea Customs Office and the Korean Intellectual Property Office held their first policy meeting this year, and discussed cooperative ways on how to prevent fake imitations [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – A new service that offers delivery for convenience store items such as boxed meals and bottled water is gaining popularity. According to representatives from convenience store chain CU, the number of deliveries made in January jumped 10.5 times compared to July 2015. Since June 2015, CU has provided delivery services [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao has announced that it will launch a new service called Kakaonavi, an upgrade of a mobile navigation app that was previously known as Driver Kim. Unlike existing navigation apps, Kakaonavi allows users to share their current location, destination, and estimated time of arrival with friends through Kakao Talk. Since the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean TV series “Cheese in the Trap” continues to be one of the most viewed foreign soap operas on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, the program’s publicist said Wednesday. The Ytree Co. said in a statement that the series based on a popular webtoon in South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Distributing rights for South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s upcoming movie “The Handmaiden” have been sold in 116 countries even before its completion, the film’s distributor said Wednesday. It’s the second time a South Korean movie has been sold to more than 100 countries prior to release, CJ Entertainment said, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Myeongdong, one of Seoul’s most famous tourist spots and shopping districts that is visited by more than 100,000 people daily, sees 30 tons of trash every day, most of which is thrown on the ground. It has often been pointed out that the number of trash bins is completely disproportionate [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – As the time of the year when hospitals recruit new medical residents approaches, professors of urology grow fretful in fear that there will not be many applicants. The number of applicants is declining each year, and urologists are worried that the study itself might someday disappear because of a lack [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Childbirths in South Korea increased in 2015 from a year earlier amid ongoing efforts to tackle the country’s chronically low birthrate, a report showed Wednesday. The number of babies born last year came to about 438,700, up 0.8 percent, or 3,300, from a year earlier, a turnaround from a [...]