SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air will fly a special jet airliner emblazoned with the official Olympic mascots to promote the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The promotional Airbus A330-200 aircraft will feature the mascots of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and Paralympics, Suhorang and Bandabi, on its fuselage, Korean Air said on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – With a new consumer tendency that prioritizes satisfaction over cost-effectiveness sweeping across South Korea, an increasing number of luxury hotels are introducing strawberry buffets to target trendy consumers. ‘Strawberry desert buffets’ are almost becoming an annual event at luxury hotels in South Korea, as a growing number of consumers now [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean teachers are almost unanimous in agreeing that students should not be able to use mobile phones in classroom without restrictions, a new survey has found. According to the survey released by the Korea Federation of Teacher’s Associations on Wednesday, the vast majority of teachers expressed disapproval towards allowing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook Inc. is willing to negotiate with South Korea’s telecommunications providers over sharing the cost of maintaining the speed of its data traffic services, the company’s vice president said Wednesday. Since 2016, the U.S. social networking giant has been in dispute with SK Broadband Co. and LG Uplus after refusing to pay for a cache server that [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The head coach of the South Korean women’s curling team on Wednesday showed her complete confidence in bringing her home country its first Olympic medal in the sport at next month’s PyeongChang Winter Games. “We’ve played with the big four powers of Canada, Switzerland, Sweden and Scotland on the world stage for the last two years. And we’ve [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean men’s national hockey team returned from a December tournament with three losses in three games, but the players still held their heads high, confident in their knowledge that even the world’s top players are still human. And that confidence will be crucial as the team gears up for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics next month. At the Channel [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of Lotto tickets reached the second highest number ever in 2017, the country’s lottery operator said Wednesday, amid growth in the number of sales outlets. Total sales are projected at 3.79 trillion won (US$3.4 billion) for last year, the Korea Lottery Commission said. The number is one of the largest tallied since the country started selling Lotto tickets in 2002. Sales peaked in 2003 when it [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Although growing semiconductor sales are powering record profits, the future of South Korea’s most famous conglomerate remains murky at best. In the face of the absence of the imprisoned Lee Jae-yong, who is seen as the de facto head of the Samsung group, and growing competition in the semiconductor industry [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A new report has found that female semiconductor workers in South Korea are nearly two and a half times more likely to develop leukemia than workers in other occupations. The worrying revelation comes as data released by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency shows that female workers in the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Chuncheon city government’s development plans for land previously occupied by a U.S. Army base are back on track after years of struggle. Chuncheon’s latest redevelopment project, which is set to take place sometime this year, will see a multi-purpose park built on the site of former U.S. Army Camp [...]