SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean retail industry is eyeing country’s top online portal operator Naver and entertainment and logistics giant CJ Group as the two companies are exchanging company shares worth 600 billion won ($531 million) as part of a strategic partnership in the fields of cultural content and distribution. Industry [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetics giant AmorePacific Corp. opened a so-called ‘refill station’ for the first time in the nation’s cosmetics industry. The company announced on Tuesday that it decided to run a refill station within the AmorePacific Gwanggyo store that opened last week in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. Customers take an [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed new technology that enables the rapid tracking of radioactive contaminated water in the sea. The new technology was developed amid growing concerns over the Japanese government’s decision to release contaminated water being stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – People say that once you step into the world of BTS, it becomes very difficult to leave. K-pop megastar offers a plethora of content from songs and performances to variety shows and documentaries. What’s more, this content leads to the production of secondary content such as character goods, games, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — It depends on what you define K-pop as, but the Refund Sisters are probably not your typical K-pop stars. Brimming with confidence and bad girl vibes, nothing seems to daunt the group’s four divas — soloists Uhm Jung-hwa and Lee Hyori, rapper Jessi and Hwasa of girl group MAMAMOO [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is looking to exclude mobile phone numbers from handwritten visitor registrations, introduced to track coronavirus cases among visitors to multiuse facilities, to prevent possible breaches of personal information, its top official in charge of personal information protection said. Yoon Jong-in, chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government is attempting to release contaminated water from a disabled nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The primary reason, as anticipated by experts, is the low cost. It costs less to release the water to the sea than by air. Initially, the Japanese government considered three separate means [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Monday its researchers have found how the novel coronavirus destroys lung cells by developing a “mini-lung” using stem cell technology. The university said its team at the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, and other researchers from the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is flaring up over Google Inc.’s alleged profit-sharing collusion with local mobile carriers and smartphone makers. Rep. Yoon Young-chan of the ruling Democratic Party disclosed in the National Assembly’s parliamentary audit of the Ministry of Science and ICT held on Friday that Google, in collaboration with local mobile [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Coast Guard is enhancing its crackdown on Chinese fishing boats illegally operating in its waters, including the resumption of seizure operations, officials said Friday. About 340 Chinese vessels entered South Korea’s western exclusive economic zone in groups per day in October, a sharp rise from about 100 [...]