SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Four died and nine were injured in a car accident in which a van overturned on a road in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, on Monday. Among the 16 passengers in the vehicle, nine of them were foreign workers. They were on a six-hour trip to Bonghwa, North Gyeongsang Province, to work [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called ‘ugly fruits’ with defects are increasingly popular at online markets. Fruits with defects have either been affected by bugs or have problems in appearance and went unsold at supermarkets and other places, discarded as ‘ugly fruits.’ E-commerce company TMON Inc. said Sunday that sales of ‘ugly fruit’ jumped [...]
GOKSEONG, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Gokseong County, a region in South Jeolla Province where temperatures are particularly frigid in the winter, is mesmerizing the public by growing apple mangoes, a subtropical fruit. To grow them, the temperature needs to be maintained at more than 10 degrees Celsius at all times, which makes apple mangoes [...]
GURYE/HADONG, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While most young jobseekers in South Korea unusually struggle to find well-paying positions at big name companies, such as Samsung, Jeong Kang-seok took a different approach upon graduating from college. The 25-year-old man, instead of sending out resumes, wanted to stay clear of city life and opted to sow [...]
DAEJEON, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers are working hard to commercialize the innovative idea of applying plasma technology to the agricultural sector. Plasma is a state that occurs when a gas is added with more energy. It is also referred to as the fourth state of matter, where electrons and ion nuclei [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A program requiring drivers aged 65 or older to voluntarily return their licenses is in place in Seoul and some other local governments. However, in rural areas, where public transportation infrastructure is poor and the elderly population is a more significant demographic, there are voices of concern. According to [...]
CHEONGJU, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research & Extension Service (CBARES) in Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province is stepping up its research into technology that can allow farmers to grow small and medium-sized watermelons vertically. As the number of nuclear families and single-person households increases, more and more consumers are looking for mid-to-small [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs established the Vegetable Industry Development Planning Committee on Tuesday to prevent an oversupply of vegetables as an increasing number of single-person households are purchasing fewer vegetables at the market. “An oversupply of vegetables is becoming more severe as single-person or double-income [...]
ANDONG, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — “A-pple”, an apple developed by the Andong National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (ANACF) in North Gyeongsang Province, will be presented at the birthday party of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Officials from the ANACF will visit Buckingham Palace on Thursday at the invitation of the British royal family to taste and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee, which has emerged as the de facto “national beverage,” has to be imported almost all of the time, but it is expected that one day Koreans will taste brews from domestic beans. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced on Sunday that it will conduct a study titled “Arabica [...]