SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – If there was one thing that South Koreans took away from the Oxy Reckitt Benckiser crisis, it was the devastating effects of chemical substances found in everyday products. The scandal dates back a decade, when polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG), a substance that was used in commercial humidifier sterilizing agents, was discovered to [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Severance Hospital cardiologist Kang Seok-min and one of his former heart failure patients, Kim Soo-kyung, have developed a “smart recumbent bicycle” for rehabilitating patients with cardiopulmonary complications. Kang and Kim first came up with the idea two years ago. Kang provided his medical expertise while Kim, CEO of healthcare [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Night markets in South Korea are appealing to more and more visitors, and are well on their way to becoming a key tourist destination for domestic and overseas travelers. According to SK Planet’s social media analytics system BINS 3.0, the number of online mentions of “night market” jumped by [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The church of Skopiotissa, which appeared as the main background for the 2016 South Korean TV series “Descendants of the Sun,” has been restored at the original filming location in Taebaek, Gangwon Province. The replica used in the making of the series was torn down along with [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 90 percent of adult South Korean citizens have a positive outlook on President Moon Jae-in’s handling of state affairs, a survey showed Friday, reflecting high public support for the new liberal leader. In the survey conducted from Tuesday through Thursday by local pollster Gallup Korea, 87 percent of [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The top organizer of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea has offered to open the land route for North Korean athletes if they decide to compete south of the tense border. In a meeting with journalists at the South Korean Embassy in London on Thursday (local time), Lee [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chipmaker SK hynix is set to join the second bidding to take over the memory division of Japanese tech giant Toshiba Corp., industry sources said Friday. According to the sources, SK hynix has conducted a study on the acquisition under a request from Toshiba. The South Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Joo Jae-un, a college student in Seoul, stayed in the nation’s top science technology school in Daejeon for a month last summer to attend an intensive training course on computer programming. The 25-year-old business major took classes for three to four hours every weekday at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is moving to establish a set of integrated operational rules for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and piloted aircraft to ensure flight safety, the transport ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it will work with other government ministries and invest 30 billion won [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean scientists have become the first in the world to successfully breed two cleaner shrimp, announced the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute on Wednesday. Cleaner shrimp, which feed on parasites and scraps on other sea organisms, are a popular domestic shrimp breed for their dramatic scarlet-white look. [...]