SEOUL, Korea, May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A study shows that almost one out of two people use a smartphone and watch TV at the same time. According to a report “Simultaneous Media Use While TV Watching” by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, which surveyed 6,240 family members over age of 13 in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A housewife surnamed Kang in her 50s has recently purchased a trench coat worth about 30 million won at a department store. She is about 158 cm (5 feet 2 inches) tall and weighs 46 kg (101 lbs). She has been practicing yoga for years to maintain [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating World Malaria Day, which came on April 25th, “Ki-Heung Service Area,” an expressway rest area in the south of Seoul, took an initiative to prevent Malaria for locals and children in Uganda. “World Share,” an overseas relief agency, teamed up with the rest area to hold a “Mosquito Net [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 29, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)– Domestic retailers are busy preparing to induce foreign tourists mainly Chinese and Japanese before the “Golden Week” of late April and early May by reinforcing marketing activities such as discount offers, free gifts and more interpreters.More shops are also informing that they are “Tax Free” shops that the [...]
![[Infographics] Light Up Scented Candles When You Need To Relax](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/향초사용법-영문-썸네일.jpg "[Infographics] Light Up Scented Candles When You Need To Relax")
SEOUL, Korea, April 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – How was your day? As our lives can get hectic very quickly, we need to slow down busy schedules to balance life and work. And in Korea of late, candles , or scented candles in particular, are enjoying renewed popularity among people who want to relax their [...]
![[Feature] Travel Accessibility for the Handicapped: Nowhere Near Adequate](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/6612258681_9c222042dc_z.jpg "[Feature] Travel Accessibility for the Handicapped: Nowhere Near Adequate")
SEOUL, Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – As the weather gets warmer, people tend to travel more. The urge to go and spend days away from home is common to all regardless of age, gender, and physical state. Still, however, there are many places out there not so friendly to the handicapped including senior citizens [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – After the Constitutional Court of Korea ruled that the so-called “shutdown policy” — which had been introduced in 2010 — legal, the local game industry showed extreme backlash, criticizing the decision was a contradictory ruling against the current regulatory reform stance of the government. The policy mandated [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – About a half of the people in developed countries named “Samsung” and “high-tech” as the words best describing Korea. On April 23, the Institute for International Trade, the research arm of the Korea International Trade Association said that 30.2 percent out of 248 Europeans answered “Samsung” and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” is spreading out among Koreans who yearn for safe returns of the missing passengers who were on board of the capsized ferry “Sewol.” The campaign started with an online posting in a community forum site, which urged people to put up a picture [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of test taker of the TOPIK, or the Test of Proficiency in Korean, has hit a record-high level. The Ministry of Education and the National Institute for International Education said on April 20 that a total of 72,079 applicants took the TOPIK test held on [...]