![[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20130417220527_1028119319-1.jpg "[Feature] Forest Donations: A New Model of Star Supporting by Fans")
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been years since the so-called Korean Wave swept the world. These days it is not so hard to find fans in Korea or any place in the world cheer passionately for a Korean idol star. Sometimes the lengths the fans go to in expressing their love for the [...]
![[Feature] Guerrilla Gardening Catches on in Korea](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/5952909494_a3972c5ceb_z.jpg "[Feature] Guerrilla Gardening Catches on in Korea")
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Nobody in the world abhors upon seeing fully bloomed roses along garden fences. Even people of hardened hearts smile when offered a bouquet of flowers. Lately there are special groups of people “fighting” with flowers instead of guns. These are so-called guerrilla gardeners. They tend abandoned or underutilized land plots [...]
![[Feature] How to Revive Flagging SME Sector](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SME-800x497.png "[Feature] How to Revive Flagging SME Sector")
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The share of the big-three retailers, including Lotte, Shinsegae, and Hyundai, in the nation’s retail market reaches up to 80 percent. Even amid a host of policy measures designed to revive small- and medium-sized merchants, the market is still dominated by a few oligopolistic players. Lim Chae-woon, Professor of marketing at [...]
![[Feature] Biogas Technologies That Will Change the World](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/7017618_m-800x533.jpg "[Feature] Biogas Technologies That Will Change the World")
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Most industrialized countries are today busy developing clean energy sources as a way to prevent climate change-induced catastrophes. Korea is no exception in that the government and the private sector are working together for clean energy development initiatives. At the fifth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) held for two days between May [...]
![[Feature] Is Cultural Difference to Blame for EXO Kris Scandal?](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EXO_.jpg "[Feature] Is Cultural Difference to Blame for EXO Kris Scandal?")
Kris was so popular among Korean fans that he starred in “Running Man,” one of South Korea’s most popular variety show programs last year. SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Since Kris, member of EXO-M, the Chinese unit of EXO, staged a legal action against SM Entertainment last week, an endless stream of rumors and speculations have [...]
![[Feature] Korea’s Book Publishing Industry in Dire Predicament](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/28273261_m-800x532.jpg "[Feature] Korea’s Book Publishing Industry in Dire Predicament")
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Why boys are turning to online games rather than spending time with books? As with this question, boys are increasingly attracted to “masculine” features of games at the expense of “feminine” book-reading time; Boys are being deterred from reading because the “gatekeepers” to children’s literature are mainly women, argues Jonathan [...]
![[Feature] What Went Wrong: Crisis of Independent Content Producers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/old-partner_01-800x530.jpg "[Feature] What Went Wrong: Crisis of Independent Content Producers")
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Four Seasons Productions, the film producer famous for planning a low-budget but very successful independent movie “Old Partner” and critically acclaimed documentaries including “The DMZ Redux” and “Steel Route,” was closed temporarily after a stretch of financial problem. Released in January 2009, Old Partner showed independent films could be [...]
![[Feature] Korean Edition of “The Big Issue” Proves Successful Social Enterprise Model](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big-issue_korean.jpg "[Feature] Korean Edition of “The Big Issue” Proves Successful Social Enterprise Model")
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been four years since the Big Issue, a magazine published for giving the homeless the opportunity to earn their own money, came out in Korea. For these years, it is generally assumed the magazine has been a modest success. In the beginning, the magazine was sold about [...]
![[Feature] Gov’t to Allow Weekend Farmers to Cultivate Vegetables in State-owned Lands](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/18184415_m-800x533.jpg "[Feature] Gov’t to Allow Weekend Farmers to Cultivate Vegetables in State-owned Lands")
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As Korea’s baby boom generation who were born between 1955 and 1963 are retiring, more and more people find new homes in the countryside. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the number of households that moved away from urban areas to the farmland last year was 32,424, [...]
![[Feature] Temple Stay, Iconic Tourism Asset for “The Land of Morning Calm”](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/3930268889_581d613147_z.jpg "[Feature] Temple Stay, Iconic Tourism Asset for “The Land of Morning Calm”")
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – In a survey taken three years ago, as many as 85 percent of Koreans said they are not happy. The news report was indeed shocking to the viewers. In a follow-up questionnaire about “spiritual quotient” in late 2011 conducted by the Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism on 5,011 adults, asking [...]