SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Mannequins no longer stand still in a department store. They work in the office, check their smartphone and put on make-up in front of a mirror. The Galleria Department Store announced on September 4 that it would replace existing mannequins with new ones in accordance with its Fall/Winter renewal. The [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Able C&C, which owns cosmetic brands Missha and A’pieu, is riding high thanks to Peng Liyuan, the first lady in China. When Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party in China, and she visited Korea, she bought the “BB Cream,” a kind of blemish balm invented in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyuna, a K-pop singer, becomes a new muse of Tony Moly. Tony Moly, one of the renowned Korean road shop cosmetic brands, announced that the company signed with Hyuna as its new main spokesperson. As the beauty product company opened its store in Manhattan, New York, in August, it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) - Womanstalk, a video-based e-commerce site made for the first time in Korea, plans to partner with Lazada Philippines, the so-called a Southeast Asian version of Amazon, to reach out to Southeast Asian consumers starting from Malaysia and Singapore in mid-September. Sales volume of Korean products purchased by people in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications announced on August 19 that it would launch a service to search ingredients in beauty products for the first time. Joining with a firm providing an app service, Hwa Hae, which has a huge database of 8,400 chemicals in cosmetic products, the Daum portal site created the browsing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Now, China’s ‘goddess’ has appeared on the cover of Elle Korea, fashion magazine catering to Korean youth and fashion enthusiasts. Elle Korea announced Tang Wei’s being the cover model for the magazine’s September issue — via their official Twitter — saying “Woman in love, made public for the first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ O Shopping, Korea’s major home shopping operator, has begun promoting “K-fashion” to American consumers. The company said on August 7 that it would set up booth in the upcoming “KCON 2014″ event to be held for two days from the 9th to 10th at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s global cosmetics brand Tonymoly announced that it has opened a store in Manhattan in New York and will expand its business to all across the United States by the end of this year. Tonymoly has currently opened store locations in New York, Virginia, Hawaii and Guam, and sells its products [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – In a Story-On cable channel makeover show “Let Me In” (“Me In” is a homonym for “beauty” in Korean) featuring women and men with physical defects being transformed into a good-looking person with the help of plastic surgeons, a woman with a large stork bite, or a nevus flammeus nuchae , on one side of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A smartphone application called “Nailist,” developed by “Cellus,” broke the 10,000 download mark in just a week from the launch and gained huge popularity among young women whose interests are nail art. Nailist is a nail art image social app where anyone who is interested in nail care and beauty can share images [...]