LONDON, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s top wine producers are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine in an innovative way. Crurated, the London-based membership wine community designed to connect connoisseurs with world-class producers, has announced it is dedicating the week of March 14-20, 2022 for The All Heart Auction, an online event auctioning [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office, or Cheong Wa Dae, is expected to undergo sweeping changes both externally and internally under the incoming government of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has promised a smaller and less powerful presidential office, informed officials said Friday. Yoon won Wednesday’s presidential election on campaign pledges on [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Friday unveiled three virtual influencer candidates for promotional ambassador of the capital’s central fashion district of Dongdaemun. The profiles of the candidates — Ha Ri-ra, Seo Hi and Mo I-da — are available on the city government’s online voting website, where a four-day public [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing wildfires in east coastal mountain areas have so far burned nearly 24,000 hectares of woodland since they started a week ago, becoming the country’s most devastating on record, a government agency said Friday. The blaze that started in the east coastal town of Uljin last Friday, about [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s recent “reconnaissance satellite” development tests and leader Kim Jong-un’s subsequent visits to its space agency and long-range rocket test site could be carefully calibrated events to heap pressure on the United States, analysts said Friday. The chain of choreographed episodes signals Pyongyang has edged closer to making [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Sentiment is growing that the insurance industry needs to pay more attention to electric vehicle (EV) insurance products as a new channel for growth after main opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was elected South Korea’s next president on Thursday. Yoon pledged that he will freeze EV charging fees over the [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group, the South Korean automotive group which has Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. under its wing, received a failing grade in U.S. marketing information service firm’s customer service satisfaction study. According to the J.D. Power U.S. Customer Service Index (CSI) Study, Hyundai, Kia, along with Hyundai’s [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean military enthusiasts have stepped up to help Ukraine. The enthusiasts have begun donating combat uniforms, helmets and combat boots, as seen on Twitter and other social media platforms. The Ukrainian Embassy in Seoul did not make any public requests for donations of military equipment. However, the embassy [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean wage workers retire at an average of 49.3 years old, more than half of whom are forced to opt for early retirement, a report said Tuesday. Mirae Asset Investment and Pension Center said that according to Statistics Korea reports, the average age of retirement among those between [...]
GWANGJU, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single men and women have different reasons for having second thoughts about marriage, a survey showed Tuesday. The Gwangju Foundation for Women and Family conducted a survey of 1,614 single men and women living in the southwestern city of Gwangju between the ages of 20 and 39, in which [...]