YEONGDONG, Jan.26 (Korea Bizwire) – A ‘Wine Café’ will open at the traditional market in Yeongdong, Chungbuk Province, which has been designated as a special industrial zone for the production of grapes and wine. The local government plans to invest 200 million won to open a wine café next to the parking lot of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan.26 (Korea Bizwire) – Working moms and dads will now find it easier to participate in PTA meetings. Prior to recent changes, the meetings usually took place during the daytime, making working it difficult for working parents to attend, or leaving them feeling guilty at work about having to take the afternoon off. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan.26 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver announced that it will launch a ‘Local Food Campaign’ in collaboration with six local governments. Local produce grown in Gangwon, Chungnam, Gyeonggi, Sunchang, Jeju, and Jeonnam Province will be introduced through the campaign. The campaign was designed to provide information about ingredients and recipes making use of fresh produce [...]
JEJU, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju International Airport on South Korea’s southernmost resort island operated hundreds of flights overnight, carrying some 23,900 people off the island after passengers had been grounded by heavy snowfall for over 40 hours, the government said Tuesday. The Jeju Regional Office of Aviation said a total of 355 flights [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday it will sternly punish employers who habitually and intentionally do not pay salaries in a timely manner. A total of 296,000 employees across the country were not properly paid in due time last year, according to data by the Ministry of Employment and Labor. “The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top 10 business groups saw the market value of their listed affiliates plunge this year mainly due to increased overseas volatility, data showed Tuesday. The combined market capitalization of their listed companies came to 721.99 trillion won as of Monday, down 4.49 percent from 755.93 trillion won [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Ryeowook of the boy band Super Junior is set to release his first solo album in 11 years. “The Little Prince” is a ballad collection inspired by the French novel of the same name. Ryeowook is the second Super Junior member to fly solo after Kyuhun, who released his first [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s finance minister asked government ministries and agencies on Tuesday to make all-out efforts to frontload their budget spending in the first quarter to preemptively cope with rising economic uncertainties at home and abroad. “The government is pushing forward with the frontloading of fiscal spending in the first [...]
SEOUL, Jan.25 (Korea Bizwire) – Although January is usually a busy time at movie theaters, this year is different, and cinema owners are not happy that customers are staying away. Under these circumstances, it was revealed that the Financial Services Commission (FSC), a government organization that issues financial policies and oversees financial institutions, asked finance [...]
SEOUL, Jan.25 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘A’, a woman in her 20s, confessed to living the life of a voice phishing caller. After graduating from university, ‘A’ tried everything to land a job, but couldn’t get employed in the depressed economy. It was then that she was tempted to accept a voice phishing caller job. The [...]