SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Ssangyong Motor Co, owned by India’s Mahindra & Mahindra, plans to unveil the long body version of its popular Tivoli sport utility vehicle next month, an industry source said Thursday. “The exact launch date has not been determined but the long body version of the Tivoli will likely hit [...]
SEOUL, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Board of Audit and Inspection has discovered during an investigation that foreigners who were banned from Korea after committing crimes turned out to have been entering and exiting the country freely. The problem was caused because the Ministry of Justice neglected its duties. The ministry quickly improved its system [...]
JINAN, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – With the temperatures dropping again, five ‘reverse icicles’ have appeared at Maisan Mountain in Jinan. Reverse icicles reached for the skies from five bowls of freshly drawn water set outside a temple. Reverse icicles could also be seen in some regions in Gyeonggi and Chungbuk Provinces. They are created as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – New research data indicates that apart from voice calls and texting, smartphones are most frequently used to take pictures or videos. According to a survey conducted by the Media Research Center of the Korea Press Foundation with the participation of 1,020 adults in September 2015, 63.3 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Taeyeon, a Girls’ Generation member, topped local music charts with her new single on Wednesday, getting her agency’s ambitious year-long project off to a strong start. “Rain,” the title track of the namesake album, was No. 1 on eight charts, including MelOn, Genie and Naver Music, as of 9 [...]
SEOUL/SEJONG, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is planning to build a national railway system by 2025 that can link Seoul with most cities in two hours, the government said Wednesday. The third national railroad development plan aims to upgrade existing rail lines so they can accommodate high-speed trains and open new railroads that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Veteran actor Park Shin-yang said Wednesday he’ll “show no mercy” to his six students in the upcoming reality show “Actor School.” Park played the lead role in the popular 2004 drama “Lovers in Paris” and has twice been named Best Actor of the Year by terrestrial network SBS. “When [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s top tech firm Samsung Electronics Co. stood as the No. 1 player in the Indian smartphone market in 2015, data showed Wednesday, boasting strong sales from the mid-end segment to long-term evolution (LTE) models. The South Korean firm took up 25.7 percent of the Indian smartphone market in [...]
SEOUL, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it would overcome its limits by broadening its horizons, as company executives decided that they would not be able to achieve meaningful growth in telecommunications this year. Company officials emphasized that the company will expand its media division and develop new business models to be reborn [...]
SEOUL, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – The promise that Netmarble chair Bang Jun-hyuk made in September 2011 when he first stood in front of his staff has become reality. He set a goal to exceed 1 trillion won in sales by 2016, which seemed impossible at the moment, but was achieved a year before the self-imposed [...]