SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Greencar, the official car sharing operator of Seoul, will introduce “Pororo Green Cars” for the first time in Korea. While the Korean automobile industry is actively promoting character marketing like Hyundai and Kia’s “Tobot” transformer series, the largest car sharing service provider in Korea will roll out car-sharing vehicles fully [...]
DAEGU, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Are you tired of hot and humid summer? How about getting some relief from the relentless heat wave by enjoying free chicken and beer at a chimac (chicken and beer) festival? The Daegu Metropolitan City, hometown of Korean fried chicken, is now staging a “2014 Daegu Chimac Festival” from [...]
Hong Kong, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The 25th HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair opened today, welcoming some 570 exhibitors from 31 countries and regions, a new exhibitor record. The fair, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), continues through 22 July. More than 300 cultural events are taking place over the next [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Send your pictures of Seoul’s morning to Seoul Metropolitan City Government’s official Instagram account and get free gifts like a music box, a lacquer tumbler, or a neck pillow featuring Seoul’s famous tourist attractions. The city government has recently opened an account with Instagram (@seoul_official) to share photos with the [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The employees of Samsung Group were paid a bonus called “TAI” (target achievement incentive) on July 8. The incentive bonus, given twice a year, is paid in four different grades from “A” to “D” depending on each affiliate’s financial performance and the degree of achievement vis-à-visthe target. As the first-half TAI [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – What if you get a phone call from office while you are away from a summer vacation? According to Help wanted ad provider Findall based on a survey on 588 office workers in their 20s to 60s, 34.4 percent answered to the question by saying “I would get the phone call [...]
![[Feature] Wall Painting That Can Revive a Neighborhood](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/editor.jpg "[Feature] Wall Painting That Can Revive a Neighborhood")
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Painting on the walls has become a national fad since a few years ago. Bleak urban neighborhoods get a makeover with bright paintings on the walls. Even villages in mountains or on the sea try to attract more visitors by putting on drawings on the walls. One of these wall paintings, [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon, the host city of the upcoming Asian Games in September this year, is striving to induce Chinese package tourists with various tourist attractions including the shooting site of the much beloved drama “My Love from the Star.” On July 2, a total of 3,000 Chinese group tourists arrived [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – During the whole month of July, Seoul will be the heaven for foreign shoppers: The Seoul Metropolitan City government is staging a “Seoul Summer Sale 2014” event in tandem with the upcoming summer holiday season. From July 1 through 31, roughly 1,200 shops in the city including department stores, duty [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Data show that there are over 60,000 Korean overseas travelers who spent over US$5,000 with credit cards to buy foreign goods in the first quarter of this year. It also found that there are plenty who spent over $100,000 on credit in acquiring items. Following the customs law amendment [...]