SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Cyber diplomacy organization VANK has said it will urge Google to revise information about Dokdo in its Knowledge Graph. According to VANK on Tuesday, the politically charged Dokdo Island is being indicated as Liancourt Rocks in Google Knowledge Graph search results in at least 13 languages including English, Chinese, Russian, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean football icon Park Ji-sung will attend the 2018 FIFA World Cup draw ceremony in Russia later this week, a source close to the former player said Tuesday. The source said Park will attend the draw for the 2018 World Cup at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Paris Baguette, a leading bakery and patisserie franchise here, against the government’s intervention in its baker employment policy. After an audit, the Ministry of Labor and Employment concluded in September that the firm, also named Paris Croissant Co., violated [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s economy is expected to grow at a brisk 3.2 percent this year, faster than the earlier estimate of 2.6 percent, on the back of improving exports and corporate investment, a Paris-based international organization forecast Tuesday. For next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revised [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro announced plans on Monday to ban all plastic surgery advertisements from the city’s metro system by 2020. The latest move by Seoul Metro has been met with praise amid growing criticism over what is known as ‘advertisement pollution’, characterized by the overwhelming number of advertisement images found [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Post on Tuesday used a drone to deliver a package to a remote southern island, marking South Korea’s first successful aerial delivery. The postal agency said it used the unmanned aerial vehicle to deliver the eight-kilogram package from its post office in Goheung county to Deungnyang Island. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of inbound visitors to South Korea is expected to decline more than 23 percent in 2017 after a sharp drop in Chinese visitors following the U.S. missile defense system deployment row, the country’s tourism promotion agency said Tuesday. The number of foreigners who visited South Korea from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Songpa District office announced plans on Monday to provide daylight devices for low-income households living in semi-basement apartments. With technical support from energy company NLS, the newly proposed measure named ‘Make A Sun-filled Happy Room’ is designed to help raise daylight intake for people living in apartments below [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – KakaoTaxi has announced plans to offer incentives to drivers who take short-distance trips as part of efforts to crack down on those who choose customers selectively depending on their destination. According to IT industry officials, the major taxi hailing app KakaoTaxi is working together with the Seoul Metropolitan Government [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – With an increasing number of trees being cut down for redevelopment projects, calls are growing for protective measures. Following plans for a redevelopment project at a Gaepo apartment complex in Gangnam District that will see old trees on the site chopped down, a new social media campaign has been [...]