Singapore, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Harnessing the power and influence of social media, Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2014 will see the debut of an innovative corporate social responsibility campaign to rally the global community towards the water cause. The first of its kind in the global water space, this campaign was introduced as part [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government and the Seoul Business Agency have signed a multilateral business partnership agreement with communication and energy sector enterprises and the financial service providers on May 28. The business agreement is to establish the first public-private cooperative network to foster “green star companies” which can be [...]
Las Vegas, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – How can the retailer industry get a customer coming back to the sales floor today when an increasing number of consumers opt for online shopping which in turn witnesses decline of visiting “off-line” stores by consumers? GE Lighting, specialist for energy-efficient solution, came up with a unique solution [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, all buildings will be required to disclose their energy consumption information and buildings of a certain size will be mandated to earn energy efficiency certifications. In addition, buildings that undergo energy-saving renovations will get low-cost loans whose interest rate is close to zero. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul City Government has completed replacing 430,000 lightings that are installed in platforms and aisles of 243 subway stations in lines No. 1 to 8, to high-efficiency and environment-friendly LED lightings. Over 90 percent of total city-run subway stations (302) have gone through the change. The change in [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Beginning in May next year, air-conditioned office buildings will be required to install curtains or blinds to save energy. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation published on May 28 a revised law on green buildings. According to the new law, buildings with large glass walls are bound by law to [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Of late, Seoul seems to have become a city more frequently “talked-about” among the international media. According to a recent report, the media from around the world including the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East have covered “Seoul” an average of 2.04 times a day and 747 [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) continues winning orders for commercial vessels by receiving orders of two ultra-large LPG carriers. DSME announced on April 7 that it signed a contract to build two very large gas carriers (VLGCs) with an Asian client. The value of a vessel is approximately [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul City Government has got down to encouraging the wider usage of eco-friendly electric cars, also known as EV, among Seoulites by expanding charging stations and increasing the public awareness of the EV benefits. Currently, EVs are mostly serving public purposes at places like public agencies, car [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory producer after Samsung, said on May 1 that its mobile DRAMs, including 20-nanometer 4-gigabit LPDDR2 and LPDDR3, won a low-carbon product certification from the Ministry of Environment. The certification scheme, sponsored by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute under the [...]