SEOUL, Korea, Mar 13, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – March 14 is the “White Day,” a day observed only in East Asia including Japan, China, and Korea. On this day, girls or grown-up women who presented chocolate gifts to their boyfriends on Valentine’s Day on February 14 expect to receive gifts in return. A recent survey [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 13, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In a depressed economy, the art world can’t be free from slow business. Most artists complain it’s getting hard to make a living on proceeds from paintings alone. But there is one segment that’s prospering despite all that. That’s the so-called entertainer-artists who hold exhibits in top-class [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 13 (Korea Bizwire) – As consumers tighten their purse string due to the slow economy in Korea, department stores are also experiencing reduced revenues. However, it’s a different world in the basement floors of the mega stores. There is “refreshment fever” in the grocery sections of the department stores as several [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Do you want to skydive without flying up on an airplane or draw eyebrows on da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with curiosity? Visit a nearby trick art museum. Now, trick art museums in Seoul’s Insa-dong attract numerous tourists, mostly Chinese, and are even expected to boost the business [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said on March 10 that it would open a flea market for foreign residents in Seoul at Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul on March 23 so that they can buy and sell goods like clothes, books, and other sundry goods. The market [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 11 (Korea Bizwire) – As many people are today using smartphones and tablet computers through which they can trade stocks with the tip of their fingers, the amount of stock traded through mobile devices has surpassed a 25-percent threshold, an eight-fold increase from only 3 percent as late as 2010. According to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers are much more sensitive than grown-ups to income differences with their peers. This uneasy social trend can be spotted by conversations with the local teens. Interviewed by a local media, a seventh grade student living Seoul, said, “You don’t make friends who live in nice — if not posh — apartments. Since [...]
SEOUL, KOREA, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) —JW Marriott Hotel Seoul announced that it has won 2014 Travellers’ Choice® awards, selected as top 25 hotels in South Korea among 384 hotels. In the 12th year of the awards, the world’s most outstanding properties were identified in the categories of Top Hotels, Bargain, B&Bs and Inns, Family, Luxury, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A while ago the Bank of Korea published a report on people’s tendency toward rarely opening up their wallets for fears of post-retirement livelihood. Then are Korean consumers saving more instead of spending? The reality is savings are falling as much as consumption. What’s going on here? According [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Mi-jin, a housewife with two twin boys in her mid-30s, recently had an experience of almost dropping her four-year-old son on the tiled floor while taking him a bath in the bathtub. She said, “I am always worried whenever my kids run around in the house if [...]