SEOUL, August 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Food trucks that sell food and drinks will start operating at parks in Seoul in the latter half of this year. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that food trucks selling coffee, toast and refreshments would start business at West Seoul Lake Park during the latter half of 2015. Since operating [...]
HAMYANG, July 30 (Korea Bizwire)-It is hard not to get drained in the continuously hot and humid weather. Many seek foods that can give them stamina. If you go to Hamyang, you can discover the medicine from heaven,wild ginseng. The 12th Annual Hamyang Wild Ginseng Festival will be held from July 30 to August 3. [...]
ULSAN, July 30 (Korea Bizwire)-The Ulsan branch of Hyundai Motor Company will start a free wedding car rental event for brides and grooms. They will be renting the Aslan, a luxury sedan released in October last year. Hyundai says that even though the event lasts until October, calls from couples are flooding in. Park Ah-ram, [...]
DAEJEON, July 30 (Korea Bizwire)– An app that stops people from using their smartphones too much has been developed. Professor Lee Ui-jin and his team announced that they developed an app named ‘Lock n’LoL’ that will cut down the number of times one looks at their smartphone. The research team pointed out that alarm messages [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire)-Bankbooks have been issued ever since banks were established in Korea.But aftermore than 100 years of existence, they are going the way of the dodo. Bankbooks will no longer be issued from September 2017, but starting in September this year, in order to ease people into the new system, incentives will [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) --A new era in which people rent cell phones could start as early as this fall. In order to offer users as many choices as possible, SK Telecom announced that they are looking into starting a cell phone rental service. Since new products are expected to be launched starting next month, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 air carrier, has filed a lawsuit to reverse an administrative decision ordering it to compensate a pilot who was grounded after refusing to shave his beard, industry sources said Wednesday. The lawsuit lodged with the Seoul Administrative Court calls for the National [...]
SEOSAN, South Korea, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top refiner, vowed Wednesday to further bolster its electric vehicle (EV) battery business by expanding its global outreach as part of efforts to find a new income source. SK Innovation has been pushing for the EV battery business since 2008, building the [...]
“The on-site visit is expected to defuse public worries by having firsthand verification on whether actions have been taken properly on the concerned facility and those who have been exposed in accordance with the safety guidelines at home and abroad throughout the first shipment and to the disposal.” – South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense SEOUL, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s major shipbuilders, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., logged worse-than-expected losses in the second quarter, largely due to the delivery of low-priced ships and a delay in the construction of loss-making offshore facilities, data showed Wednesday. The country’s big three shipyards racked up a combined loss of [...]