SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — With the wedding aisle adorned with a load of white and pink flowers and fancy dining tables decorated for the occasion, 38-year-old Choi Yu-mi’s wedding looked like a typically lavish Korean marriage ceremony, except that the wedding hall held only dozens of guests, not hundreds. Tables laden with flower [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that South Koreans prefer a woman with an oval face, wide forehead and small lips. The female face shape preferred by South Koreans turned out to be different from the one preferred by Paraguayans. A joint research team from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Samsung Fashion Institute said Thursday it had selected ‘R.E.S.C.U.E.’ as next year’s fashion market keyword. ‘R.E.S.C.U.E,’ a combination of six phrases, refers to the urgent rescue that the fashion market is in need of. ‘R’ refers to ‘restoration first,’ meaning that the priority of the fashion market is [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean cosmetics and desserts continue to be popular among Japanese women despite cold Korea-Japan relations. Shibuya 109, a popular Japanese fashion mall, conducted a survey of 600 female customers between the ages of 15 and 24, showing that many of them prefer Korean products, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the prolonged economic recession resulting from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of luxury items have marked a sharp increase. According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, sales of luxury items at the nation’s major department stores were up 9.2 percent year on year in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc., a major home appliance maker in South Korea, said Monday it plans to launch a hair loss treatment device within this year. South Korea’s drug safety ministry recently approved the LG Pra.L MediHair as a laser apparatus for medical use, according to the company. LG said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With the number of people losing hair increasing rapidly – particularly among the youth – in China, the nation’s imports of hair loss products from South Korea recently shot up. According to the Shenyang Office of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), China’s imports of hair loss prevention products [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Along with an increase in the number of days with high humidity of about 90 percent resulting from the record long rainy season, cosmetics items products designed to keep the skin from becoming sticky are enjoying rising popularity in South Korea. Olive Young, the leading health and beauty store [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Once criticized for incinerating unsold products rather than selling them at discounted prices, luxury brands are shifting towards environment-friendly practices by actively making use of eco-friendly materials. British luxury brand Burberry, for example, plans to expand the application of the eco-friendliness guarantee standard which is now applied to a [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In Hongdae, Seoul’s popular district for its upbeat nightlife and indie scene, a long line is sometimes formed for hours on end. A casual observer might imagine a celebrity meet-and-greet event or a line to buy tickets for a rock concert. In fact, they wait for hours to buy [...]