SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Under the leadership of young new leader Lee Jun-seok, the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) will set out this week to pick its new team of spokespeople through a rare debate tournament, party officials said Wednesday. The party will conduct a three-week-long public audition to recruit two chief [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean-made instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, are gaining a stronger foothold in Japan, the country that claims to have invented the world’s first instant noodle. South Korea recorded a surplus of $21.1 million in its instant noodle trade with Japan in the first four months of this year, [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are rising over YouTube videos of experiments with explosives and other dangerous acts that remain posted for a number of years. In a YouTube video posted in September 2019, a local YouTuber was seen dropping a lump of sodium into a stream near a residential area, calling it [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the legalization of medical cannabis in 2018, South Korean researchers are developing new medications using cannabis. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology’s Gangneung Institute of Natural Products announced that it will use South Korea’s first crop of medical cannabis to develop medications for child epilepsy. Cannabis can [...]
SUWON, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed an ‘e-tattoo’ that can produce electricity when affixed to human skin or a soft robot and then touched. The research team from Ajou University said Monday that it had developed an e-tattoo sticker by creating a nanofiber paper made of silk protein, [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid raging opposition from medical institutions against installing closed-circuit television cameras in operating rooms, some hospitals and clinics are stepping up to install CCTV cameras in order to regain trust from patients. Recently, plastic surgery and orthopedic hospitals have reportedly been installing CCTV cameras in operating rooms. Himchan Hospital, [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent days, the way corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are performed is changing, as they are evolving towards embracing fun factors to encourage the voluntary participation of employees in small groups. This trend comes as the share of the MZ generation, referring to those born between 1980 and [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s hydrogen fuel cell system HTWO is set to make a foray into the motorsports market. The world’s fifth-largest automotive group said that it will supply a hydrogen fuel cell power generation system to the Electric Touring Car Racing (ETCR) series, with the world’s first touring race [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s insects industry grew 2 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, data showed Sunday, amid growing popularity of insects-based foodstuffs. The combined sales of local insect-related companies reached 41.4 billion won (US$37.1 million) in 2020, up from 40.5 billion won a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEJONG, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national debt is growing at a rate of 3 million won (US$2,730) per second and stands at 17.6 million won per person, a parliamentary office said Saturday. The total debt by the central and provincial governments in Asia’s fourth-largest economy reached 912.5 trillion won as of 3:30 [...]