SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on March 12 that it is preparing to build prayer rooms for Muslims in a couple of the city’s major tourist areas, with the rooms expected to be available for use as early as this summer. The reason South Korea’s largest city is rolling [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Income polarization deepened in 2017 with high income earners making more while low income earners brought in less. In addition, while individual income fluctuated by small margins, average household income and consumption fell. These conclusions were derived from a report published by Shinhan Bank that conducted research on the [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean novelist Han Kang, who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, has again been longlisted for the British literary award of world authority. Han’s “The White Book” was among the 13 contenders picked from 108 entries for the 2018 prize, according to the announcement on the [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Food processing companies are raising prices of their products citing rising costs of raw materials, labor and other outlays, industry sources said Tuesday. CJ Cheiljedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food and feed company, increased the prices of five kinds of Korean dumplings by an average 6.4 percent March 1. [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Vietnamese version of the 2011 South Korean box office sensation “Sunny” topped the Southeast Asian country’s box office in its opening weekend, the movie’s overseas distributor said Tuesday. Released on Friday, the new film, titled “Go Go Sisters,” collected 490,000 views in its first weekend, more than double [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Motors Corp.’s Stinger sports car and Hyundai Motor Co.’s sub-brand Genesis G80 sedan made this year’s Autotrader top 10 best car interiors for vehicles under $50,000, the automakers said Tuesday. “The Kia Stinger’s interior offers a great-looking cabin with upscale materials and intuitive controls. There’s also a surprising [...]
SUWON, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this month, residents of Gyeonggi Province who dial the emergency line 119 for requests such as opening up a locked front door will have to find other means of getting help. The Gyeonggi-do Fire Service announced that it had assembled “living safety dispatch standards” that would categorize the [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of fresh food products in small quantities and home meal replacements have grown substantially with single- and dual-person households emerging as primary consumers. In the past two weeks, sales of GS Supermarket’s “single-serving vegetable” packets were 68.7 percent higher than in the two weeks directly following the date [...]
TOKYO, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of five South Koreans are distrustful of their island neighbors to the east, according to the results of a poll conducted by a Japanese news and communications organization. A total of 1,000 respondents each from South Korea, the United States, the U.K., Thailand, China and France participated [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetics companies are concentrating their marketing efforts on anti-pollution products amid growing concerns over fine dust here, industry watchers said Monday. According to Lotte Shopping Co., the combined sales of basic skin care products for skin troubles at its health and beauty store chain LOHB’s in the [...]