![[Kobiz Feature] #1 LG Economic Research Institute: Future of Auto Parts Materials](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/9265448890_93e616cbf8_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] #1 LG Economic Research Institute: Future of Auto Parts Materials")
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Future is always hard to predict. In many cases only one or two predictions turn out close to reality out of ten future projections. This is more so in the annals of consumer goods, from the case of the automobile replacing the horse-drawn carriage to the personal computer overtaking the [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] LG Economic Research Institute Report: Cases of Business Model Innovation](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/5134654297_cb4487f426_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] LG Economic Research Institute Report: Cases of Business Model Innovation")
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 01 (Korea Bizwire) – In today’s marketplace in which companies fight tooth and nail to gain shares by any means, companies do everything to differentiate their products and services. But they face a situation where the room for differentiation is getting narrower. According to a report by global management consulting firm Frost & [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Group has set out to promote the advantage of solar power to the general public. The group companies like Hanwha Q-Cells Korea, Hanwha 63 City, and Hanwha Environmental Research Institute, in partnership with civil society organizations, opened a class teaching how to install small-scale photovoltaic panels as well [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The lights in the underground parking lots of apartment housings in the city of Seoul must be on 24 hours a day. They were also mostly fluorescent lights up until recently when the city government started changing the fluorescent lights into economic LED lights. From 2012, the city successfully replaced [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 01 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s state-run research institute has lent a helping hand to a developing country to improve the quality of life for its people. The Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute, a research outfit under the Ministry of Environment, held a completion ceremony for a rainwater purification facility at Anawim Elementary School [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 01 (Korea Bizwire) – Mando Footloose, the electric bike, will be on display in the Louvre Museum following a debut in Harrods, an upmarket department store in London, last year. Halla Meister, the retail and service unit of Halla Group, said on November 29 that it would present the Footloose e-bike at the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 28 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ CheilJedang announced that its recently introduced program will help to reduce emission of greenhouse gases by a total of 2,800 tons next year. CJ runs ‘Green Partnership for Shared Growth among Large and Small Businesses’ sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) through which the company [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Nov 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha SolarOne Co. Ltd. (the “Company”, or “Hanwha SolarOne”), a global photovoltaic provider of cost-competitive, high-quality solar photovoltaic modules, today announced the completed integration of new cell technology into its production processes. Through the implementation of this innovative new technology, known internally as ‘Project EStarII,’ Hanwha SolarOne is able to [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Bike Commuting: New Trend That Will Create a Huge Market](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/18753119_m.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Bike Commuting: New Trend That Will Create a Huge Market")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 04 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently bicycle commuting has become a fad, with the number of those riding bikes to work on the rise at an accelerated pace. According to data published by job portal career.com, two out of ten office workers (18.8%) use their bicycles to go to work. As to why they [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 02 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines set out to install 30 solar-powered streetlights in Myanmar as part of its global corporate social responsibility activities. The airliner said on October 31 that it held on the same day a signing ceremony for environmentally friendly streetlights at the nation’s former capital Yangon, with more than 100 [...]