SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., a South Korean manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, announced Monday that Right Route, an eco-friendly social enterprise sponsored by the company, has developed a high-end fabric by upcycling old EV battery separators. Lithium-ion battery separators are a core component of EV batteries, smartphones and other [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd.’s battery business officially launched its standalone company Tuesday to take a bigger chunk of the growing battery market, but a bumpy road lies ahead to stay on top of the highly competitive industry. Kim Jong-hyun, who served as president of LG Chem’s battery unit, takes the [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BTS has achieved another milestone with its new song “Life Goes On,” becoming the first Korean song to land at No. 1 on the Billboard’s main singles chart. “‘Life Goes On’ officially debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100,” Billboard said in a Twitter post [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea held a completion ceremony Monday for the 2nd ‘Starbucks Restart Program,’ a training program designed to support the comeback of failed small business owners. For a group of failed small business owners who had no option but to shut down their businesses, Starbucks offered training twice in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of delivery workers are choosing to deliver parcels on foot, rather than using other means of transportation. Women, in particular, are tapping into the delivery business to earn money and get a bit of a work out at the same time. Neighborhood Delivery, a new on-foot [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry plans to develop a “big data” collection and analysis system to more efficiently take advantage of diverse and scattered data so as to make better policy for military operations and troops. Currently, the military has vast amounts of data on more than 1.4 million items related [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — East coast cities and towns are nervously waiting for the onset of the year-end and new year holiday season, fearing a massive influx of tourists at their sunrise hotspots will further heighten chances of the spread of the coronavirus. Many local governments along Gangwon Province’s eastern coast have already [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans agree that Seoul should play the role of a “facilitator” to push the stalled nuclear negotiations forward between the United States and North Korea, a survey showed Friday. According to the Nov. 20-21 survey of 1,000 adults by the National Unification Advisory Council, 73.9 [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a reverse-aging technology that can transform aged cells into young cells. A joint team consisting of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and those from cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. said Thursday it had developed a reverse-aging technology that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s premium brand Genesis said Thursday that it will develop and apply a new biometric technology that can improve both convenience and safety for its GV70 SUV that is scheduled to be rolled out in mid-December. This is not the first time for Genesis to apply biometric [...]