SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul will lean on the IoT devices produced by startups to, among other things, prevent life-threatening accidents from occurring at the city’s camping sites. The city announced today that it has earmarked 2.7 billion won to fund its “IoT City” project. The IoT devices will be used in diverse forms [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More needs to be done to ensure sexual harassment victims are better protected in the workplace, researcher Kim Ji-young of the Chungcheongnam-do Women’s Policy Development Institute said at an open forum held on parliamentary grounds in Yeouido yesterday. Citing data collected by 10 Korean Women Workers Association chapters across [...]
JECHEON, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at Semyung University in Jecheon are raising their voices in protest at what they perceive to be exorbitantly priced housing options near the university. Already burdened with costly tuition fees, the continually climbing rent has students accusing property rental businesses of taking advantage of the high demand for [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government and the national heritage agency announced a joint initiative Tuesday to redesign the pedestrian plaza at the heart of the capital as part of urban planning aimed at bolstering public convenience and restoring history. Gwanghwamun Square, located in the middle of the 10-lane Sejongro main [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T has completed construction of wind and solar power facilities in Ontario after 10 years of work, the company said Tuesday. The last part of the three-stage US$5 billion project was finishing the North Kent Wind, a 100-megawatt wind power plant in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. The construction and trading [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Media outlets of the United Arab Emirates have offered extensive coverage of a recent K-pop gala concert thrown by SM Entertainment, South Korea’s largest entertainment agency, last week in Dubai. The concert, “SM Town Live World Tour VI in Dubai,” was held at the Autism Rocks Arena in Dubai [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. think tank, noted for its research on North Korea, plans to close next month following the South Korean government’s decision to cut off funding, a news report said Tuesday. Robert Gallucci, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute (USKI) at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, told [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nanda Co., one of South Korea’s leading online retailers, has put itself up for sale amid the global popularity of K-pop and K-beauty items, investment bank sources said Tuesday. Nanda, which operates fashion mall Stylenanda and cosmetics brand 3CE, has selected Swiss banking giant UBS as lead manager for [...]
ULSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Removed from their home of seven years after the appearance of an unexpected predator, a family of geese are back where they belong on the campus grounds of UNIST, a science and technology research university located in the southeastern city of Ulsan. Originally a family of seven, only four [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The deadline is April 20 to apply for monthly stipends of 250,000 won that will continue to be issued until the recipient turns 18. To be eligible for this benefit, the applicant must be a Seoul child of a low-income household who is 12 years old or younger and [...]