SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “Technique alone doesn’t make a good singer. You can be a good singer no matter how old you are and where you have come from, nor how experienced you are.” Koreans were recently amused with a mysterious ‘grandpa’ who came out of nowhere and made a touching singing performance on [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that the volume of digital data to be created in Korea will be 847 billion gigabytes (GB) by 2020. If the volume is stored 12-GB tablets, the height will be 9,640 times taller than Mt. Halla, the highest mountain in South Korea of 1,950 meters. EMC [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – For the past ten years, the volume of beer imports has increased 6.6 times, with the number of importing sources almost doubling. During the same period, the beer import volume from the EU member nations has grown most rapidly. According to data “Beer Import Trend” published by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – With an integrated technology of fashion and telecommunications, a groundbreaking change is expected in cloth purchasing patterns in which customers try on at shops and buy them. LG Uplus announced on June 12 that it has introduced “Uplus Board” the first such attempt in the fashion industry that combines [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – CA Technologies Korea said on June 12 that 99 percent of Korea’s top corporate leaders consider information technology as one of the most important strategic assets. This is more than 10 percentage points higher than any other Asia-Pacific region companies including those of Japan. According to a report “TechInsights [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A special menu of a Korean coffee franchise prepared to cheer up the Korean national soccer team for the World Cup Games is gaining huge popularity in the U.S. Caffé Bene announced that 10,000 bowls of Choco Devil Bingsu (sweet ice flakes) were sold in its stores in the [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – By attracting more than 40 million viewers on YouTube as of June 12, Psy’s music video for his new song “Hangover” seems on pace to hit another “home run” following “Gangnam Style.” In the music video, Psy and rapper Snoop Dogg comically describes Korean culture of drinking and it [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Already, Samsung Electronics is manufacturing 120 million mobile handsets a year in Vietnam at its plant in the northern province of Bac Ninh and preparing a similar-sized mobile phone plant in nearby Thai Nguyen Province. Now, it plans to add another one in Ho Chi Minh City for home [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A gas storage and regasification unit provided by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) will support the power generation needed for the upcoming World Cup Games in Brazil by supplying natural gas from the offshore facilities. DSME announced on June 11 that its LNG-FSRU*, or liquefied natural gas floating [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As a leading big data analysis company, LG CNS will advance into the Chinese social media analysis market with its proven technologies and expertise. Armed with its social media analysis solution “Smart SMA” developed in 2012, LG CNS made its debut into the big data market in China providing [...]