SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. hired a few female employees for the production line, for the first time in its history. According to the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, out of the 185 production workers hired, six were women. Currently, the carmaker employs around 28,000 production workers, with approximately 500 being women. [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Brokerage firms in South Korea are engaged in a marketing war, offering commission discounts to attract individual investors interested in trading stocks overseas. Mirae Asset Securities Co. has launched a promotional event, allowing individual investors to buy U.S. stocks online without paying any commissions until the end of this [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. plans to introduce its energy-saving auto demand response (DR) service in the U.S., utilizing the LG ThinQ smart home platform. The company announced on Monday its plan to launch the auto DR service in three U.S. states – California, New York, and Texas, in collaboration with [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp. said Monday it will be releasing the second episode of its entertainment-style “deal commerce” program, hosted by actor Kwon Hyuk-soo, on its official YouTube channel. The concept of deal commerce was introduced in April as the industry’s first program based on the idea of [...]
MONACO, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The curtain falls on the 10th Monaco Energy Boat Challenge. For four days, at the Yacht Club de Monaco, 31 international universities and some 50 teams coming from 25 nations, such as the United States, France, Indonesia, India, Italy and Germany, competed at sea in a range of contests [...]
MONACO, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Discovering alternative energy sources to power the maritime industry. It is the purpose of the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge organized by the Yacht Club de Monaco. For four days 31 international universities and some 50 teams compete at sea in a range of contests aiming to build, on the [...]
MILAN, Italy, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — This was issued by LaPresse. Germany and Morocco want to strengthen their cooperation, particularly on the issue of conflicts such as the one in Western Sahara. This was stated by the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, at a joint press conference in Berlin with her Moroccan counterpart, Nasser [...]
AUSTIN, Texas, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Ambiq®, a technology leader in ultra-low power semiconductor products and solutions, introduces the Apollo4 Lite and Apollo4 Blue Lite SoC to its expanding portfolio of SoCs for IoT endpoint devices, especially the remote monitoring products of the healthcare sector. This announcement follows Ambiq’s release of its Heart Kit™, [...]
ANSEONG, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Three North Korean defectors who recently arrived in South Korea after living on the run in China said their ordeal significantly worsened due to strict restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a rare glimpse of how they went through hardships during the period. The three women — who, respectively, [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has dispatched a military transport aircraft to send additional military supplies to Ukraine, a defense official here said Monday. The defense ministry made the decision to provide the supplies at Kyiv’s request, the official said, noting that Seoul has offered humanitarian and military logistics support to help [...]