SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than two-thirds of single-person households in South Korea pay monthly rent, which accounts for the majority of their expenditures, a survey showed Tuesday. Station3 Inc., the operator of real estate brokerage app Dabang, surveyed 832 app users and found that 45 percent of them were living alone. Of [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Users of KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger, picked Munyongi as this year’s rising emoticon star. The selection followed a two-week vote that began on June 19, according to Kakao Corp., the operator of the messaging app. Each user was able to vote once per day. A total [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion and cosmetics retailer Shinsegae International Inc. announced on Wednesday that the global niche perfume brand Byredo had launched a beauty store in Garosugil, an upscale shopping district in southern Seoul. At the store, visitors have the opportunity to consult with professional consultants and try out all the available [...]
MADRID, Spain, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the agreement between International Fruit Genetics LLC (IFG) and Special New Fruit Licensing Limited (SNFL), the consortium led by AMFRESH Group, as well as the Swedish fund EQT and the American fund Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP), for the purchase of the entire IFG business by SNFL, Jack [...]
LONDON, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Webull Corporation (“Webull”), the owner of the popular Webull trading platform, today announced the launch of its retail brokerage services in the UK. Through licensed financial services trading firm Webull Securities (UK) Ltd. (“Webull UK”), a subsidiary of Webull, residents of the UK can now trade U.S.-listed equities and fractional shares, [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it has raised US$2 billion by selling exchangeable bonds (EB) that can be converted to shares of its battery-making subsidiary, LG Energy Solution Ltd. The bond sale came in two tranches worth $1 billion each, with the coupon for five-year EBs set at 1.25 [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language series “Celebrity” was the most-watched non-English TV show on the streamer in the previous week, its viewership chart showed Wednesday. Released on June 30, the 12-part show about the extravagant lives of social media influencers topped Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the week of July 3-9 [...]
KUNMING, China, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Yunnan Innyo Co., Ltd. is excited to collaborate with @visityunnan and share a series of videos of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road in Yunnan, China. The videos feature charming villages, famous tea mountains, delicious local cuisine, and comfortable accommodations, making Yunnan’s Ancient Tea-Horse Road known worldwide. The Ancient Tea-Horse [...]
QUEBEC CITY, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – LeddarTech®, an automotive software company that provides patented disruptive low-level sensor fusion and perception software technology for ADAS and AD, is thrilled to announce the successful integration of LeddarTech’s advanced LeddarVision™ software with Ficosa’s cutting-edge surround-view camera system, along with other sensors such as radars, IMU and GPS. Ficosa is [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Visual storytelling skills are essential to become a professional webtoon artist, but advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology is now capable of creating images and text, and challenging the industry in a fundamental way. Webtoons, a type of digital comics read on smartphones, tablets and PCs, have emerged as a [...]