SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — With the summer heat reaching 35 degrees Celsius on Sunday, leading to a nationwide heat wave warning, the country’s popular beaches and festivals teemed with vacationers. Busan’s Haeundae Beach welcomed 270,000 visitors while Gwangalli Beach received 140,000 people on the previous day. The city’s seven public beaches, in total, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean instant noodle maker Nongshim Co. said Sunday it will be releasing Shin Ramyun The Red, an extra spicy limited edition of its flagship noodle Shin Ramyun, on August 14. Shin Ramyun The Red measures around 7,500 Scoville heat units (SHU), which is twice as spicy as the [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — About 100 foreign domestic workers from the Philippines and other countries will be allowed to work in Seoul later this year in a pilot project to test the import of domestic helpers amid a dwindling number of locals willing to work as maids, the labor ministry said Monday. The [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food giant CJ Cheiljedang Corp. said Monday it has sold off all of its shares in Chinese food company Sichuan Jixiangju Food at 300 billion won (US$235.8 million). CJ Cheiljedang had bought a combined 60 percent share in the Chinese firm, which deals with Chinese foods, including [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SKC Co. said Monday it is teaming up with Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corp. for a joint venture to produce and supply battery-grade copper foil in North America, advancing into the world’s most burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) market. Under the memorandum of understanding, SK Nexilis Co., SKC’s copper foil-making subsidiary, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun commercial operations of a power plant installed with the country’s first homegrown gas turbine, its operator said Monday. Korea Western Power (KOWEPO) said it began operating the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant in the city of Gimpo, west of Seoul, on Friday. The plant [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro said Monday it will stop pronouncing some subway train station names in original Chinese during its station arrival announcements starting August. At present, Seoul Metro offers prerecorded voice announcements in four languages — Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese — inside trains to give the upcoming station name, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s megahit single “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has set a YouTube record for most views for a video by a K-pop group, the quartet’s agency said Monday. YG Entertainment said the music video surpassed 2.1 billion views around 5 p.m. the previous day, about five years and one month after it [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment said Monday it will launch Riize, a new boy group composed of seven members, in September. Riize is a combination of the words “rise” and “realize,” which means a team growing and realizing dreams together. It is the first idol group to be launched by SM in [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — KG Mobility, formerly known as SsangYong Motor Co., said Monday it will launch the all-electric Torres EVX SUV in the domestic market in September to beef up its product lineup. The Torres EVX SUV is KG Mobility’s second battery-powered model after the Korando Emotion launched in the domestic market [...]