SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – BMW Korea, the local importer and distributor of BMW cars, will recall a total of 2,100 cars sold here for various problems, including a defective oil filter casing that could allow coolant to mix with engine oil, damaging the engine, the transportation ministry said Thursday. The recall affects 1,135 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been over 40 days since the first report of suspected bird flu. So far, officials have culled over 27 million poultry, the largest number the country has yet to see, and although the outbreak is now showing signs of alleviation with fewer AI reports coming in, the [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A new attempt to erect a statue representing Japanese wartime sex slaves, or comfort women, in Busan failed Wednesday, with intervention from district officials and the police. Some 150 members of a civic group tried to set up the statue on the sidewalk adjacent to the Japanese Consulate at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A 59-year-old lawyer named Hwang Yong-hwan said Wednesday that he filed a constitutional appeal claiming that appointing 1,500 lawyers every year is threatening the livelihood of existing lawyers. “The sixth bar exam (for lawyers), scheduled for next year, will admit some 1,500 new lawyers, the same as before, and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors introduced 3D holograms at two of its Seoul dealerships on Wednesday, in an effort to help customers experience a greater variety of Kia vehicles. According to the automaker, the limited amount of display space at its dealers made it impossible to exhibit all vehicle models, often leaving [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of wage earners who make more than 100 million won (US$82,860) a year rose sharply from a year earlier in 2015, nearing 600,000 and accounting for 3.4 percent of all income earners, the tax office said Wednesday. In its annual report, the National Tax Service said the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has once again proved the love that Koreans have for musical films, with over 2 million tickets sold as of Tuesday afternoon; that is 16 days faster than Begin Again, which was the last musical film to attract more than 2 million moviegoers [...]
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Navy has just completed a memorial commemorating the 46 soldiers lost in the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan warship. An exhaustive investigation revealed that on the night of March 26, 2010, the ship was hit by a North Korean torpedo, although North Korea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Local tour agency Cosmojin Tour announced Tuesday the top five tourism trends in 2016 for inbound travelers. According to Cosmojin, this year was marked by an increasing number of individual tourists, instead of group tours, and company officials said the number of inquiries for the tours rose by 30 [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A biofloc developed by the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute has proven effective not only for aquafarming but also in the cultivation of vegetables. Biofloc are particles including organisms like bacteria, fungi, algae, and zooplankton, which purify the waste products resulting from aquafarming and convert them into protein [...]