SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean footballer Son Heung-min has set a new single season scoring record for an Asian player in the English Premier League (EPL) Son bagged his ninth league goal in Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-1 win over Swansea City at Liberty Stadium in Swansea, Wales, on Wednesday (local time), the highest [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – In a special opportunity to enjoy the short-lived spring petals with a nice cup of coffee, Seoul’s Gangnam District is hosting its annual cherry blossom festival at Yangjaecheon (stream) trail starting Wednesday. The main activities will be taking place by the Dogok-2-dong Community Service Center near the famous Yangjaecheon [...]
SUWON, South Korea, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – One of the biggest challenges for prospective restaurant and café owners is to pick the right spot. The Gyeonggi Provincial Government has decided to provide some insight for these candidates to help them make the best decisions using local big data. The data, relating to 5,517 commercial [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Park Won-soon and Sadiq Khan, the mayors of Seoul and London, signed a friendship agreement at the City Hall in London Monday to cooperate in nine sectors including economic democratization, better response to climate change and digital innovation. Monday’s agreement between the two capital cities is an extension of [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the highly-anticipated features on Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and the S8 Plus is Bixby, a new AI-based voice assistant that is replacing S Voice. Although much of Bixby’s full capacity or coherence and consistency is still under wraps, the service will offer a wider level of control compared to [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The tourism industry on South Korea’s resort island of Jeju remained relatively sound in March, despite worries about a serious economic setback from China’s travel package ban to its neighbor amid a diplomatic standoff, industry sources said Wednesday. The number of tourists who came to Jeju Island was 1.25 [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Women working at South Korea’s top 10 conglomerates are getting paid about 62 percent of what men are getting in yearly salary, even less than half at some companies, according to a corporate tracker Wednesday. An analysis by Chaebul.com, which follows details of the leading business groups, showed that [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Instant coffee consumers are switching from coffee mix to instant drip, industry sales data showed Wednesday. The market for coffee mix shrank from nearly 1.24 trillion won (US$1.1 billion) in 2012 to 910 billion won last year on four consecutive years of minus growth. Last year’s sales were down [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Tuesday that foreigners can shop for goods at local convenience stores through the company’s mobile translation application Papago. Under the agreement with GS Retail Co., a major convenience chain operator, Naver will update its application this month with English, Japanese, and [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first Internet-only bank, K-Bank, has attracted more than 60,000 accounts in just two days since launching operations, the lender said Tuesday. K-Bank, formed by a consortium of KT Corp., Woori Bank and 19 other companies, began its operations at midnight Sunday. The pace of growth in K-Bank’s [...]