STILLWATER, Minn., May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Cub® Foods, a first discount grocery store in the US, announced it is to offer customers an innovative, tech-savvy way to save money with the launch of its new digital couponing program. Encouraging customers to “stop clipping and start clicking,” the program allows MY CUB REWARDS™ members [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul City Government has got down to encouraging the wider usage of eco-friendly electric cars, also known as EV, among Seoulites by expanding charging stations and increasing the public awareness of the EV benefits. Currently, EVs are mostly serving public purposes at places like public agencies, car [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom said on May 1 that it has launched four types of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) solutions and “Wizturn,” a service development platform. BLE beacons are small, low-power Bluetooth transmitters that repeatedly broadcast their presence to other nearby Bluetooth devices. The beacons are suited to organizations [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory producer after Samsung, said on May 1 that its mobile DRAMs, including 20-nanometer 4-gigabit LPDDR2 and LPDDR3, won a low-carbon product certification from the Ministry of Environment. The certification scheme, sponsored by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute under the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Elevator, Korea’s leading elevator maker, has developed a new elevator model that has the country’s smallest-size elevator shaft and requires only 1.1-meter-deep pit at the bottom of the shaft. The “New Yzer” model, whose “machine-roomless elevator” precursor was launched in 1999, can save construction cost and [...]
DALLAS, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The all-new 2015 Hyundai Genesis has been named the 2014 “Car of Texas” by the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA), one of the largest and most respected media associations in the U.S. Issued at the annual Texas Auto Roundup at the iconic Texas Motor Speedway, the award is the [...]
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, expands its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The ways to plant malignant applications are becoming much smarter to make “delicate inroads” into our ordinary Internet using patterns. Embedding malignant codes through text messages is now a well-known path and many applications that shut out the codes have also been widely developed. Therefore, the ways [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the atmosphere of nationwide mourning following the ferry sinking incident, businesses are refraining from engaging in aggressive marketing for May. The shift in attitude reflects how the whole economy is still reeling from the tragic maritime accident; May is a period during which the economy enjoys a momentary boost driven by the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Apink, a lovely six-member girl group, successfully came back with their new mini album “Pink Blossom” in late March and the title track of “Mr. Chu” have swept the local music charts throughout the month of April. “Mr. Chu” is a cute and fun pop dance song that [...]