SEOUL, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Daily NK, an online journal specializing in North Korea, citizens of Pyongyang are making efforts to avoid moving into new apartments built near the city’s Future Scientist Street. The apartments have been said to be ‘the proudest creations of the Kim Jong-un era’. A source from Pyongnam Province [...]
GOYANAG, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – A senior citizen named Jang (90, female) who lives alone in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province eats her meals at a local soup kitchen. She always brings a stroller, and picks up all sorts of things on her way to the soup kitchen. She doesn’t sell the things for money, nor collect [...]
SEJONG, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – A new iteration of the Korea Grand Sale, a shopping festival targeting foreigners visiting Korea, will be held during the month of February. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Visit Korea committee announced that the Korea Grand Sale will be held from February 1 to February 29 [...]
SEOUL, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Group announced that it has launched a smartphone app for Chinese tourists visiting Korea. The application is called ‘TianTianLeTian’, and provides visitors with information on shopping, tourism, and other services offered by Lotte companies. Department stores and large discount stores have already launched mobile solutions for Chinese tourists, but [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s big three entertainment agencies said Thursday they won a total of 13 prizes at the iF Design Award 2016 in Germany, one of the world’s three largest design awards events. S.M. Entertainment said three of its albums won prizes in the field of packaging design including boy [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) -A sea shrimp farm has been dedicated in the middle of the Sahara Desert in northern Algeria with South Korean technology and capital, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Thursday. The Shrimp Cultivation Research Center has indoor and outdoor shrimp farms and several research and office buildings on a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) - Actor-singer Rain will make a world tour stop in Hong Kong this weekend, his management agency said Thursday. R.A.I.N. Company said he will perform before a sold-out crowd in Hong Kong as part of his world tour, titled The Squall, on Saturday. Rain launched his seventh global tour last November [...]
SEOUL, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent research has revealed that nine out of ten people who committed suicide sent out a ‘signal’ informing the people around them of their condition. However, 81 percent of family members left behind did not see the warning signs, and were not able to help. Only one out of four [...]
POHANG, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – The remote island of Ulleungdo was blanketed with 137.3 centimeters of snow from January 19 to January 25. Streets were blocked, and buses couldn’t run. Because of the wind, boats could not leave or approach the island. Fresh food such as fruits and vegetables ran out at the supermarkets, as [...]
SEJONG, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has revealed a roadmap for the commercialization of drones in eight major industries. The eight industries have a high demand for the usage of drones, such as the product delivery, forest conservancy, coastal surveillance, national land survey, structural stability evaluation, communications network, filming [...]