SEJONG, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – At a public hearing held on July 13 at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) announced the First National Road Master Plan which includes details related to the construction and maintenance of national highway systems. A national road master plan [...]
GANGJIN, South Korea, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangjin County, located in South Jeolla Province, South Korea announced on July 13 that it began establishing a smartphone announcement system in 2013, for which infrastructure has already built throughout Maryang-myeon, Sinjeon-myeon, Daegu-myeong, and Doam-myeon. Conventional announcement systems required village leaders to use a microphone and an amplifier [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Association of Korean Medicine (AKOM), which dropped the word “oriental” from its English name several years ago to supposedly reduce Western cultural prejudices, is clashing with the Korean Medical Association (KMA), again, over the launch of a pilot project promoting traditional Korean medical treatment as an alternative for elderly dementia [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a Hyundai Research Institute report entitled ‘The Trend of Promising Industries Related to Internet of Things (IoT)’ revealed on July 12, the global IoT market is expected to swell from $300 billion in 2015 to $1 trillion by 2020, with 28.8 percent annual growth. For South Korea, experts foresee [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Pension Service (NPS) announced on July 12 that it may file a damages suit against Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), the country’s third-largest shipyard, due to its suspected accounting fraud. According to a prosecutorial investigation, DSME allegedly committed accounting fraud exceeding 5 trillion won ($4.36 billion) over [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Tired of playing your favorite games on a tiny 5-inch screen? Google Korea announced on July 12 that it will temporarily operate a Google Play Arcade at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul from July 29 to August 24. Game lovers will be able to enjoy playing thirty popular mobile games [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Back in February when South Korea and the U.S. began discussing the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system, China expressed serious concern, with some speculating that Korea might face harsh retaliation such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs), according to Yonhap News. In March, South Korea and China held bilateral talks [...]
UIJEONGBU, South Korea, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a research paper entitled, ‘Analysis of Human DNA Recovered from Mosquitoes’ written by Kim Young-sam, a medical examiner from the Forensic Investigation Team at the Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Policy Agency, the use of mosquito blood to identify human DNA of possible criminals is being introduced as [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Who has never spent an entire weekend watching Disney movies at home? With great storytelling elements, excellent computer graphics to render realistic imaginary worlds, and interesting and lovable characters, you’re never ‘too old’ to watch a Disney movie. Disney Korea recently commissioned a survey from a market researcher Macromill Embrain [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The second Sinchon Beer Festival will be held on Yonsei-ro, Sinchon this Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15. The beer festival, which was first held last October to boost the economy in the Sinchon area, will feature a sandy ‘beach’ and pubs keen to evoke the feeling of enjoying [...]