GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — 9Round, the world’s largest kickboxing fitness franchise, announced today it will become Karate Combat’s Official Worldwide Fitness Partner. Karate Combat is the premier full-contact striking professional sports league. 9Round has a global presence with nearly 500 locations across 18 countries. Karate Combat is distributed to over 100 countries [...]
Basseterre, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, addressed the nation recently on St Kitts and Nevis’ Labour Party’s (SKNLP) one-year anniversary and outlined some of the Party’s successes in that period. After Honourable Dr. Drew consulted with experts during the pandemic, he made [...]
New York, NY, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — This year, Guidepoint celebrates its 20th anniversary as a leading expert network and research enablement platform, offering solutions that allow clients to obtain essential knowledge to better inform their business decisions. Since Guidepoint’s founding, the company has pursued its vision of making knowledge available to all by [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean bakery brand Tous les Jours has opened its 100th store in the United States, its operator said Wednesday, adding it aims to open up to 1,000 stores in the U.S. by 2030. Tous les Jours has opened its 100th shop in Bronxville, New York, according to CJ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co. said Wednesday it will raise 2 trillion won (US$1.5 billion) via a rights offering to secure funds for facility investments and other purposes. Hanwha Ocean, formerly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), will issue some 89.48 million common shares at a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held a nationwide air raid exercise for the first time in six years Thursday, with vehicles on designated roads ordered to pull over and people to evacuate to shelters or underground facilities. The 20-minute exercise, which kicked off at 2 p.m., came a day before the beginning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group Senior Vice Chairman Chey Jae-won met with Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Ola Kallenius on Wednesday and discussed ways to boost their business partnership, SK said. The meeting, which took place in SK’s headquarters in Seoul, centered on efforts to expand cooperation in the fields of electric vehicle (EV)-related [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry unveiled a plan Wednesday to introduce a new collective school grievance response system, seeking to protect teachers from abusive complaints by parents. The government will also enhance schools’ authority to address violations of teachers’ rights and educational activities by students and parents. The ministry announced these [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK bioscience Co., a pharmaceutical affiliate under South Korea’s SK Group, said Wednesday it will produce 5 million doses of its signature cell-based influenza vaccine SKYCellflu nationwide from next month for the coming winter season. It resumed the production two years after it had stopped manufacturing the prefilled syringe-typed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will increase the number of surveillance cameras in public parks and hiking trails throughout the capital to reduce crime blind spots, Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Wednesday, responding to a recent spike in violent crimes in public places. Recently, knife rampages and other violent crimes have [...]