SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – Letters being used in the design of cars seem to be the latest automotive trend. According to the analysts, Kia Motors’ new K7 and Hyundai Motor’s Ioniq feature alphabet letters in their design, drawing the attention of consumers. The new K7 features the letter ‘Z’ in its LED positioning lamp [...]
SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – The three big telecom companies in Korea are set to launch various IoT (Internet of Things) services, expanding the market. According to an industry report, nearly 60 home IoT services will be launched during the first half of this year. SK Telecom launched a new brand called Smart Home in [...]
SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Pre-Produced Dramas’ are the new trend in the Korean drama industry. The reason for the change is the Chinese market, which requires content that is entirely pre-produced. As a result, most of the pre-produced dramas are starring Hallyu stars who are popular in the Chinese market. Song Joong-gi (31) and [...]
SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean home shopping networks are currently stepping away from the TV to open offline stores. To overcome their limit of only communicating with customers through TV, they are starting to provide omni-channel services so that customers can actually touch and try out products sold through home shopping networks. CJ O [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s leading carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. saw the Genesis mid-size luxury sedan rank third in terms of annual sales in the United States last year for the first time since its debut there, industry data showed Monday. Hyundai Motor sold a total of 24,917 units of the second-generation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Hotels & Resorts, Lotte Group’s hotel unit, said Monday it will actively look for overseas business opportunities through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) once it acquires cash from the highly anticipated initial public offering. Lotte Hotel last month submitted its application for market floatation on the Seoul bourse, taking [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Girl group KARA will dissolve next month with the departure of three of its four members, sources in the K-pop industry said Monday. Park Gyu-ri, Han Seung-yeon and Goo Ha-ra won’t be renewing their contracts with the agency DSP Media come February, according to the sources. The three have [...]
SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – Men’s obsession with one-sided love and women’s obsession with a man’s background have been suggested as the largest obstacles to marriage. According to a survey conducted on 518 single men and women from January 4 to January 9 by Bien-Aller and Only You, two matchmaking services, 29 percent of men [...]
SEOUL, Jan 11 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been suggested that the reason China’s Xiaomi was able to grow into a successful international company in only five years was because of its efficient usage of social media. A recent report issued by the KT Economy and Management Research Center says that social media acted as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Seo-yeon buys freshly brewed coffee at GS 25, a convenience store chain, twice a day — on her way to work and during lunch time. There’s neither a barista nor ice caramel macchiatos. The part-time cashier at a department store in downtown Seoul gets Americanos at 1,000 won [...]