SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he has paid a visit to a hillside village in South Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan, saying the former slum’s transformation into a tourist destination should serve as “an inspiration.” Widodo said in a Twitter posting Sunday night that he made the visit [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Sunday it will build the country’s first “smart city” in the southern port city of Busan by 2024, where all infrastructure facilities will be maintained and controlled based on big data collected through internet of things sensors. In the Busan Eco Delta City (EDC) on a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip and display industries, the backbone of Asia’s No. 4 economy, have remained intact since Tokyo’s export curbs against the Asian neighbor, Seoul’s trade ministry said Sunday. The country’s top four tech giants — Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display Co., SK hynix Inc. and LG Display Co. [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — It turns out cicada skin could improve the motor skills of patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, a remedy also found in Donguibogam, the Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine. A team of researchers from the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine recently announced the results of a study that demonstrated [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create a multi-language police hotline to better protect foreign wives from domestic violence, the gender ministry said Friday. The government will also ban men with records of serious crimes from bringing in foreign brides and enhance education for marriage migrants and mix-race families to help them [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean animal welfare activists said Thursday they will petition the Constitutional Court next month against the government for not curbing dog meat consumption and slaughterhouses. Members of KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) and the PNR (People for Non-human Rights) said in a news conference the government has infringed [...]
SUWON, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Belgian Shepherd dog that received body detection training at a local pet training center showed outstanding performance in finding missing persons. The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency designated Jesper, and her owner Roh Il-ho as Honorary Neighborhood Police Officers. Roh has been running a pet training center in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in Seoul has introduced a sidewalk air pollution shelter for the first time in the country. Seoul’s Gangnam District on Wednesday installed a “fine dust free shelter” at the bus stop in front of the Galleria Department Store on a trial base. The facility removes more than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a new trend dubbed ‘con-premium,’ a compound word of ‘convenience’ and ‘premium’, the outsourcing of household chores is being highlighted. Hyundai Card, a leading credit card issuer in South Korea, compiled purchasing data at 20 stores offering home services over the past three years, and the number of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Pengsoo, a penguin character from the education broadcasting company EBS is being wooed by the food industry for marketing. Binggrae Co., a major dairy maker, recently met with EBS to discuss a potential marketing program with Pengsoo in the lead. Binggrae held a competition last month to select the [...]