SEOUL, South Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of private investors who have bought Korea’s listed stocks and bonds has exceeded 10,000. Previously, all foreign investments have been made under institutional names from tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands and Bermuda. On April 22, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) reported that [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, pedestrians in Seoul can find their ways to their destinations through a smartphone application while walking. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it would offer a route planner app for the pedestrians in the capital city to make it easy to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Internet usage patterns are undergoing significant shift affecting the business paradigm in general, according to a survey conducted by South Korea’s local authorities. According to the Korea Internet and Security Agency, more and more users connect to the Internet through mobile devices rather than on desktop computers and tend [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – From time immemorial, running has been inseparable from the human race. In prehistoric times, our ancestors got most of their food by hunting and running was naturally the matter of survival. Now, we don’t chase or run away from animals any more, but do running for different [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Lumināt announces a development partnership with UMass Memorial Health Care (UMass Memorial) for an industry-leading advance care planning platform to fully integrate patients’ end-of-life directives into their electronic medical records. This ground-breaking development partnership will equip all UMass Memorial providers to access, understand and implement patients’ wishes, reducing the cost of care [...]
BEIJING, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) (“Perfect World” or the “Company”), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, today announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a total of 30,326,005 class A ordinary shares of Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME) (“Shanda [...]
ST. LOUIS, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Purina ONE is building on the feline phenomenon already popular in Europe and Asia to open the first ever Cat Cafe in America. Patrons can sip “cat’achinos” while spending time with and learning about cats, cat health and Purina ONE’s 28 Day Challenge. Purina ONE hopes this encourages [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today opened the Samsung Innovation Museum (S/I/M) dedicated to exploring the past, present and future of the electronics industry, located in Samsung Digital City in Suwon, Korea. Visitors to the museum can experience the rich history of electronics from the earliest electrical creations [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – INFRAWARE released the cloud-based POLARIS Office, the company’s flagship office application, and announced that the application is available for free. The usage and function of the new POLARIS Office has completely changed in comparison to the previously sold product for individual use. In addition to allowing [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Cases of phone scams and smishing for text, designed to lure innocent people after the South Korea’s ferry disaster to log onto bogus news, have been rampant of late and the local authorities have come up with a series of measures to cope with the unprecedented crisis moments [...]