SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Could mobile eSports become the next big thing and replace PC-based games? Smartphone-based eSports games are gradually solidifying their position as the next generation answer to the eSports industry given the wider smartphone user base and better access to online streaming. However, with massive hits on PC like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national football team is set to train with a full squad in Dublin for European friendly matches later this month, as overseas-based players joined the team for their international duty. South Korea, led by head coach Shin Tae-yong, called up 23 players for their friendly matches against Northern Ireland and Poland later this month on the road. Shin’s side, 59th in [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Microsoft Korea, the local unit of U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp., said Tuesday that sales of its open cloud computing platform Azure rose nearly three-fold in one year. Microsoft opened two data center regions in South Korea for Azure in February 2017, one in Seoul and another in the southern port city of Busan. The company’s data center regions are large complexes that [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea agreed Tuesday to send a 160-member art troupe to Pyongyang for rare concerts in early April ahead of South and North Korea’s planned summit late next month. The South’s art group will visit the North’s capital from March 31 to April 3 for two performances, according to a joint statement adopted after inter-Korean talks at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The art troupe will [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — American musician Kenny G will perform at Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang next month in celebration of the first anniversary of the venue. The Kenny G live concert will take place on March 21, with the saxophonist accompanied by a band led by renowned bassist Nathan East, while the South Korean trio [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Android users will be able to obtain information about the South Korean capital on their lock screen using a popular lock screen app. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on Monday it has agreed to provide information about everyday life in the city for the smartphone lock screen media platform BuzzScreen. [...]
BUSAN/SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday apologized to the father of a student who was killed by police torture in 1987, sparking the landmark June 10 popular uprising against the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan government. Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il visited bedridden Park Jeong-ki, father of late Seoul National University student Park Jong-chul, at a nursing home in the southeastern port city of Busan. [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Members of South Korea’s central bank policy board agreed to freeze the key rate last month as inflation pressure remained low and economic growth was moderate, according to minutes from the monetary meeting released Tuesday. The Bank of Korea’s (BOK) monetary policy board meeting on Feb. 27 held the base rate at 1.50 percent for the second time in a row since raising the rate for the first time in more than six years [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that over 50 percent of South Korean seniors aren’t consuming the recommended daily protein intake, which could result in serious health problems such as a weak immune system. The research team led by professor Park Hyun-a at Inje University Paik Hospital discovered that among South [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Social values and the improvement of quality of life are at the forefront of South Korea’s new government innovation plans. According to the new government innovation action plans announced by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Monday, social values will be prioritized in all sectors, including society, the [...]