SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Nongshim’s ‘Zha Wang’, the ‘it’ item of the first half of the year, will be making its debut in America. As Zha Wang’s popularity online exploded, the company was flooded with purchase orders from the U.S., forcing Nongshim to send out 15,000 boxes of Zha Wang upfront. The company [...]
“We’re conducting this experiment with several outsourced production companies since we haven’t yet been able to find a viable business model for web dramas.” “We ask for your support in our quest for developing web dramas that would hopefully thrive overseas as well.” – Ko Chan-su, a KBS producer responsible for the broadcaster’s experimental [...]
SEOUL/SEJONG, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will start its retest on Volkswagen’s diesel cars sold in the country to confirm emissions levels starting next month, ministry officials said Thursday, after the German carmaker admitted to cheating in the United States. Official tests will begin on Oct. 1 on four of five affected Volkswagen [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -It turns out that high school seniors preparing for college entrance exams are severely sleep-deprived. Toz, a business that rents meeting rooms, conducted a survey on 1,800 high school seniors who used their study center. Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents slept five to six hours a night, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -Taxies and call-vans that rip off foreign tourists or issue fake receipts are increasingly being caught. After police cracked down on the illegal acts of taxies and call-vans, 139 cases were reported and 19 drivers were arrested and face criminal charges. The others will face administrative penalties from local governments. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – On July 9, a giraffe named Elsa was born at the Seoul Zoo. It was a meaningful birth, as it was the first giraffe birth in the eight years since Elsa’s mother Hwanhee was born. Seoul Zoo named the giraffe Elsa after the heroine in Disney’s ‘Frozen’. Elsa’s father [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire)-Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodations sharing service, was ruled to be illegal by a Korean court for the first time. Airbnb is a service that acts as an intermediate between a person wishing to sublet their property and those looking for accommodations, and receives commission in return. It is one of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire)– Osaka has turned out to be the place the most Korean people visited during the first half of the year. According to the Hotel Price Index developed by Hotels.com, the online hotel reservation site, Osaka ranked first as the tourist attraction most visited by Koreans from January to June. Hong [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) -- Among the children of ambassadors, 152 were reported to have dual citizenship with 11 different countries, and 89 percent of them (135 people) had American citizenship. The numbers have increased compared to the 130 in 2013 and 143 in 2014. The biggest problem for those with dualcitizenship is military [...]
“We have a campaign plan that addresses North Korea and what forces do we need to bring to bear in the advance.” “I cannot elaborate, but I will state that the Coast Guard has a significant force package, ships and coastguardsmen on our part of the campaign plan, which will augment the overall force for [...]