SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In the past few years, South Korean patent applications pertaining to curling have increased significantly. On January 23, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) revealed only five ideas had been submitted from 1994 to 2013, but in the aftermath of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, where the South Korean [...]
BORYEONG, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A herd of wild black goats are back where they belong thanks to a coast guard vessel that intercepted a fishing boat carrying the poached animals from their island home to market on the mainland. On January 22, the coast guard office of Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province, stated that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice announced on January 22 that it had identified 4,790 foreigners deported in the last two years who have attempted to re-enter South Korea under new identities through a bio-data analytics system called BASE. Relying on a database of facial, fingerprint and other biometric information, BASE [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — “The U.K.’s only 4×4 and pick-up magazine” 4×4 has bestowed the titles of “Best Value” and “4×4 Of The Year” on South Korean automaker Ssangyong’s G4 Rexton in its annual 4×4 of the year awards. The G4 Rexton beat out noteworthy competitors such as the Land Rover Discovery and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean delegation is set to travel to North Korea on Tuesday to inspect the venues where the two Koreas will hold joint cultural and sports events to celebrate the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The visit by 12 officials follows a North Korean team’s two-day stay in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Star producer Na Young-seok’s reality program “Youn’s Kitchen 2″ ranked No. 1 on the weekly TV ratings chart, data showed Tuesday. The reality show of four Korean actors running a Korean restaurant in Spain garnered a score of 237 on the Content Power Index (CPI) for Jan. 8-14. Premiered [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s production of fishery goods raised at fish farms surpassed the 2 million-ton mark last year for the first time and is expected to hit another record this year amid growing popularity of Korean marine products abroad, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Tuesday. The amount was [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales to foreigners at South Korean duty-free stores reached a new record high in December, industry data showed Tuesday, despite a sharp drop in the number of tourists, following a diplomatic spat between Seoul and Beijing over a U.S. anti-missile system. Sales to foreigners at local duty-free shops came [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to drastically lower the suicide rate in the next five years, the government said Tuesday, as the country battles with one of the biggest causes of death for the young people. The country has the highest suicide rate among the members of the Organization for Economic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s seven-member delegation entered the South on January 21 as it began its two-day journey to conduct site inspections of performance venues in Seoul and Gangneung, a city near PyeongChang where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held. The delegation, led by North Korean pop singer Hyun Sung-wol, [...]