NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Online retailers YesStyle and YesAsia are proudly sponsoring the New York leg of U-KISS First U.S. Tour, organized by Mnet America. The first stop of the first United States tour from South Korean boy-band U-KISS, the concert takes place on January 9, 2014 at the Best Buy Theater in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Korea Tourism Organization will hold a promotional event for about five weeks between January 2 and February 10 as a way to encourage tourism for the winter season. Anyone interested in tourism within Korea can visit the KTO website at http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment said it would officially launch “Football Day,” the proprietary soccer simulation mobile game, from December 29. With this game, fantasy soccer game fans won’t have to rush to their desktop computer to manage their team and instead use their smartphone device anywhere anytime. The game has been [...]
SUWON, Korea, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gyeonggi provincial government and Gyeonggi Tourism Organization said on December 27 that its ecological learning programs offered in the demilitarized zone such as the “DMZ Eco-culture Classroom” and the “DMZ Experience Program” have won official seals of approval by the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said on December 26 that Gwanak-Shinsa Market (located at 58 74th Road, Nangok-ro, Gwanak District) earned the first “Green Traditional Market” designation. The designation is given by the city government to traditional markets that adopt solar panels for their energy needs while eliminating [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In the webtoon market hitherto dominated by large portals such as Naver and Daum, a new challenger has come in. Kartoon Cup, a service offered by Wholesee Inc., is set to change the general perception that all the cartoons available on the web are free of charge and will [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 22 (Korea Bizwire) – What if a visually impaired tell sugar from salt when she prepares food. For a task that will take a few second for the sighted, the visually challenged may take much longer. To address this problem, BF Books, a publishing social enterprise, will hold a promotional event in which [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Double Heart, the baby goods brand of Yuhan-Kimberly, has opened a nursing mothers room within the visitors’ center in Seoul Forest. Given the public park is largest in Seoul with more than 7 million visitors a year, the new nursing room within the premises will be a welcome change [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 18 (Korea Bizwire) – In a 1987 movie “Wings of Desire,” there is a scene in which an angel reads a human’s mind by putting his hand on the person’s shoulder. Then the person is instantly comforted from her distress and regains hope. Just like in the movie, the same idea has been [...]