SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver and Daum, the top two portal sites in South Korea, listed kimchi defined as “pao cai,” a non-Korean dish from China’s Sichuan Province, in their Chinese dictionaries, a civic group here said Thursday. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) reported that Naver’s Chinese dictionary defines kimchi as [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are underperforming when it comes to addressing climate change, an international environmental group said Thursday. Greenpeace asked 100 subsidiaries of 10 major conglomerates in the country about their usage of renewable energy and plans on fully replacing electricity with renewable energy to come up with an [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Global Chemical Co., an affiliate of South Korea’s top refiner SK Innovation Co., is building an anode material plant, where plastic waste will be recycled into new materials. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Ulsan on Thursday. By 2025, SK Global Chemical plans [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s vaccination response team has signed a business agreement with the Korea Smart Healthcare Association and local IT firm Simplatform Co. to launch a pilot program for safe and efficient vaccine storage and management at medical institutions. Under the agreement, authorities will monitor [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is taking steps to commercialize a hydrogen fuel cell system for ship use. The carmaker on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hyundai Global Service, Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co.’s ship repairing unit, and the Korean Register of Shipping (KR), a ship quality assurance [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube videos by Hamimommy, a seven-year professional housekeeper and YouTuber, showing how she cleans the rice cooker and dishes she uses for breakfast, have been watched by more than 5 million viewers. Similar YouTube channels, including ones that publish videos in which they clean dirty homes to offer a [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a sluggish employment environment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, a shift towards entrepreneurship has continued this year, especially among young people. The number of new business established during the January to April period of this year totaled 449,000, down 14.2 percent from a [...]
DAEJEON, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources has developed new technology that can extract magnesium from condensed water (seawater condensed with salinity removed) as well as reducing emissions of carbon dioxide generated during the desalination process. The amount of condensed water generated during the desalination process in [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to switch all of its company cars to environment friendly vehicles by 2030, joining South Korea’s efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases largely responsible for global warming. The South Korean tech giant vowed to replace around 800 corporate fleet cars, including [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Wednesday the city will reduce bus and subway schedules and expand COVID-19 testing to fight the recent resurgence of the virus amid a record high number of cases. At a press briefing, Oh said bus schedules will be scaled back starting Thursday and subway [...]