![[Kobiz Feature] Companies Getting Serious about Book Reading among Their Employees](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2539452694_a409178fb3_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Companies Getting Serious about Book Reading among Their Employees")
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 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s first “resort house complex” will be built near Chuncheon, 70 kilometers northeast Seoul. Hanwon Group, the real estate developer with experience in building apartments, residential-commercial complexes, shopping malls, and golf courses for the past 20 years, said recently that it would set to develop resort houses “The Spring” near the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The two-way TV program combining the homegrown technology of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) with smartphone technology is attracting keen attention from overseas content buyers. QBS, a TV station specializing in sending terrestrial TV signals through DMB channels, said on November 12 that its in-house program “Homo Applicus” will be presented [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/4729433024_8d0622bde1_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 11 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea, a small country of a little over 100,000 square kilometers equivalent to that of Serbia, is crisscrossed with highways and artery roads long and short, with so many rest areas all along the way. Unlike most rest areas elsewhere that provide bare-bones services such as rest rooms, outdoor tables [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 08 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor, in cooperation with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, is set to begin a corporate social responsibility program to support Korean artists and globally promote their artworks. The auto maker said on November 7 that it would give to the national museum a total of 12 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 07 (Korea Bizwire) - A trade show to promote Korean Wave goods has been held in London. At the city’s Old Billingsgate Exhibition Center, the Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo 2013 was open for three days between November 4 and 6. Hosted by the Korea Creative Contents Agency and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Environmentally Friendly Offerings Flooding the Market](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/7002096699_e2deb5c9d8_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Environmentally Friendly Offerings Flooding the Market")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 06 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of patients suffering from the condition of atopic dermatitis, a form of chronic inflammation of the skin with symptoms of severe itchiness, is on the rise rapidly. Believed to be caused by deteriorating air quality, it affects people of all age groups including small babies and children. According [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 06 (Korea Bizwire) - A thousand strong delivery men from Domino’s Pizza and McDonald’s will double as night-watchmen protecting female pedestrians from muggers and rapists. The Seoul Metropolitan City Government said on November 4 that it would kick off a program “Seoul City Community Watchmen” jointly with Domino’s Pizza and McDonald’s through the use of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 06 (Korea Bizwire) - Samwon Garden, a traditional high-end Korean food restaurant with 37 years of history, opened its first overseas location in Jakarta, Indonesia. Established in 1976 under the name of “Samwong-jeong,” the restaurant has grown into one of the best-known Korean food establishments with the number of cumulative visitors in excess of [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] “Hanbok” Slowly Regains Its Former Glory](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/4789085815_02d601f899_o.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] “Hanbok” Slowly Regains Its Former Glory")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 05 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 1, a “hanbok” fashion show was held at the wharf of Dokdo on the East Sea. The event, called “I Love You, Dokdo,” was hosted by the North Gyeongsang provincial government and sponsored by fashion designer house Maison-de. Lee Young Hee, a renowned hanbok designer who was instrumental [...]