SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Bookpal, the company specializing in smartphone-based mobile e-book services, announced on January 22 its 2013 book content download numbers. According to the company, the total number of e-book downloads during the year 2013 was 9 million, of which 2 million were paid contents. The number of page views on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said on January 16 that it would establish ten “halfway houses” for teenagers who have had difficulty integrating with society after graduating from children’s welfare facilities. Currently there are 3,600 children living in such facilities within the city government’s jurisdiction. Of these, an [...]
JEJU, Korea, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Hello Kitty Island, the globally popular character Hello Kitty-themed playground in Jeju’s Seoguipo, held the “World’s Happiness Christmas” event on December 24. The charity event was intended to entertain the 15 children from a nearby village of Ahndeok who arrived at the playground in a bus, attended an [...]
SUWON, Korea, Dec 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration said on December 15 that it would make available an educational video for dog owners on how to properly care for pet dogs as a way to reduce the incidence of abandoned pets. The number of abandoned pets has steadily increased for the past several [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 09 (Korea Bizwire) – In cooperation with a mobile app developer, Plus MX(CEOs Kyung-dong Kim & Jong-won Lee), the British Council Korea recently released an Android version of its highly-established “English Study App Series for Koreans”. This App Series consists of British Council Words (“BC Words”), British Council Idioms (“BC Idoms”) and British Council [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 06 (Korea Bizwire) – With smartphones becoming ubiquitous in our everyday life, people frequently face a dilemma of whether to give their smartphones to little children. For parents with toddlers and young kids full of curiosity, it’s impossible not to give them smartphones and let them play with them. A new app has been launched to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A low-cost English learning solution has been made available by a start-up company called HeraReading. The company recently launched a “HELPS” (high-education low-price system) service by which it offers English teaching classes jointly with local community centers. As there is little overhead for running schools as the company makes use [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 15 (Korea Bizwire) – As more and more people raise their awareness on animal experimentation, cosmetic companies worldwide are responding to the call for more ethical consumption of cosmetics without involving animals in any form. On upcoming November 16, Lush Retail, the British cosmetic purveyor famous for fresh handmade cosmetics, will hold the first [...]
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SEOUL, Korea, Nov 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Books allow readers to live someone else’s life and thereby broaden their minds. Even Socrates said 25 centuries ago, “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” But today the number of people who read regularly [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation has published an architecture textbook for elementary school children. Titled “My First Architecture Book,” it is intended to motivate the youths to be interested in architecture at an early age. It took three full years for the ministry to publish the book since 2011 [...]