SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Woongjin ThinkBig is betting big on a new “book club” business. The company increased its capital by 35 billion won on August 29 in order to use the fund to invest in the book club service introduced just last month. Given it had streamlined a number of new businesses of late, this [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy held an opening ceremony for Belgium’s Ghent University and the University of Utah from the United States in the Incheon Free Economic Zone of Songdo on September 1. Ghent University, one of the renowned institutions of higher learning for biosciences, gained permission in November [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – An instant automatic translation application for a smartphone has been newly released so that with its new version users are expected to make good use of it when traveling in another country, even without the Internet connection. On Sep. 1, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) launched and [...]
![[Quote] Inspirational Life Journey of Phamti Phuong, Vietnamese Immigrant Woman](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phamti-Phuong_quotes-800x1066.jpg "[Quote] Inspirational Life Journey of Phamti Phuong, Vietnamese Immigrant Woman")
“I wasn’t a professional because I did not know what to do or what to say exactly when an immigrant woman asked for help. Through the master course, however, I came to learn how to approach to the problems these women and multiracial families are faced with. There were a lot of “aha” moments while [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A third “Lotte School” has been open in Vietnam. Lotte Department Store, jointly with international charity organization Plan Korea, said on August 22 that it held a groundbreaking ceremony to build a school in a mountain village in Thai Nguyen Province in the northeast. With the total population of 1.2 million, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon Transportation Corporation announced on August 21 that it has installed the world’s first “IT Aquarium,” for which feeding, cleaning and water exchanging is done automatically, in Gyeyang Subway Station. The “IT Aquarium” has integrated high-tech and tradition, as it presents various exotic fish in an IT-controlled aquarium embedded on a wall [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians was opened in Seoul’s COEX Convention & Exhibition Center on August 13. Started in 1897 in Zurich, Switzerland, the once-in-four-year event sponsored by the International Mathematical Union will be held until the 21st under the theme of “sharing” (nanum in Korean) and giving hopes and dreams [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A score of Korean companies supplying goods for babies and toddlers have set up booth in one of the world’s largest trade shows in Shanghai. The Korea International Trade Association said on July 24 that it took part in the 14th Shanghai Children Baby Maternity Products Expo held in the Shanghai New International [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Middle school students will have to take software courses from next year. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, jointly with other ministries including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, held a meeting on July 23 at [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s government, financial authorities and credit card companies have sat down to discuss implementing a cutback in credit card fees for public interest-serving institutions. Within the latter half of this year, the Credit Finance Association of Korea is planning on commissioning policy think tanks such as the Korea Development Institute for [...]