SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Logistics Corp., a unit of South Korean food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, said Wednesday it has acquired two logistics companies based in India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of efforts to tap deeper into overseas markets. The Korean company has signed a deal to [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Abe administration once again reaffirmed its hardline Korea policy in a diplomatic paper released yesterday in which it made a territorial claim to the South Korean island of Dokdo, while urging the next South Korean government to honor the agreement reached with the now jailed former president Park’s [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A new exhibition called ‘Selfie’ that kicks off today at Savina Museum of Contemporary Art offers viewers an inside look at the self-obsessed culture of modern times often typified by selfies and social media networks, from an artistic point of view. The new self-explanatory exhibition ‘Selfie: those who photograph [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government is continuing its efforts to encourage the use and trade of renewable energy including solar and wind power. A new initiative spearheaded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) to install solar panels on the rooftops of around 2,500 schools by 2020 was revealed [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has far too lenient regulations on fine dust measurement and needs to toughen the threshold to better inform the public of the air quality amid the worsening climate here, experts here said Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Environment, a daily average of over 50 micrograms of [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The transport ministry said Wednesday it had notified Hyundai Motor Co. of its decision to have the carmaker recall tens of thousands of its Sonata sedans for parking brake light problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport made the decision after reviewing five cases of suspected faulty parts [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc. on Wednesday received its first A350-900 aircraft that will allow it to strengthen its customer service on international routes starting next month. Asiana, South Korea’s second-biggest flag carrier by sales, will put the wide-body jet that can seat 311 people initially on the Incheon-Manila route from [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The trial run of a five-week dog training program run by Gangdong District in Seoul has successfully come to an end, with the graduation ceremony scheduled to take place at Gangdong City Farm on Saturday, the district office announced yesterday. The five-week training program for pet dogs was launched in [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean men who want to divorce their foreign spouse has quadrupled over the last six years, according to a report released by the Korea Legal Aid Center for family relations yesterday. The report, which was based on multicultural married couples who received divorce counseling last year, [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The controversial coin-operated washing machines in the South Korean military that charge soldiers 1,000 won ($0.90) per load of laundry became one of the key talking points during the third presidential TV debate, which aired on KBS last Sunday. As the South Korean military failed to install enough washing machines [...]