SEOUL, Korea, Oct 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Muhayu Inc., a software company specializing in plagiarism detection, said on October 28 that its “Copykiller” program has added a new feature searching for identical phrases in graphic files. The new Copykiller edition can compare footnotes, references, scanned images, and Xeroxed copies, as well as text files with its [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 25 (Korea Bizwire) – An international trade show on foods, food processing equipment, and food additives will be held for four days between December 5 and 8 at Ilsan’s Kintex. Organized by World Expo Co., the 2013 World Food Expo will be a marketplace for farm produce, fishery, and dairy foods, as [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A new barter-based settlement scheme for small-sized merchants has been invented that would relieve the problem of liquidity for 6 million small business operators. Korea Barter Settlement System said on October 23 it has developed a new settlement scheme called “Extrade Card System” and earned a patent for [...]
DAEGU, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2013 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the governments of North Gyeongsang Province and Pohang City, will be held for two days between October 19 and 20 at Pohang’s City Gymnasium. The event is sponsored by POSCO, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Banila Co., Korea’s cosmetic company, will hold a special discount event to celebrate the eighth anniversary of company launching. It will start selling from October 18 a limited number of eight-item packages consisting of Clean-It Zero, Prime Primer Classic, the Secret Marbling Highlighter, Two Eyes Shadow, Style Eyeliner [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An event will be open to give visitors to it a chance to sample foods from all around the world. The Incheon Metropolitan City Government, in partnership with the Korea Food Service Industry Association, will hold the “2013 Incheon World Food Culture Exposition” for three days between October [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently matchmaking service company Baroyeon asked 1,033 single women, “What do you think about men who have not served in the military?” To this, 744 female respondents (72.1%) answered that they don’t find attractive men who haven’t been to the military. Among young women, army barracks culture is [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 07 (Korea Bizwire) – “I love you, dear customer!”The 114 Directory Assistance operators have begun saying these greetings since 2007. Some customers responded to this rather unfamiliar salutation, “She loves me? That’s kind of awkward.” But some others took this more positively, “I could feel the effort to get closer to customers” [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 02 (Korea Bizwire)–Charismatic, gentle, and stylish Hyun Bin, the heartthrob much loved by women in Korea and beyond, is posing for a model of “Smart Suit.” The average working hours among Korean office workers are 2,092 hours per year, or 40.2 hours a week without vacations, the second highest among OECD member countries after [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of import cars on Korea’s roads is quickly on the rise. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation, as many as 585,218 import cars have been registered with motor vehicle agencies in Korea for the eight-month period between January and August. This is more [...]