SEOUL, Korea, Oct 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Emergency Management Agency and the National Disaster Relief Association will begin on October 24 taking recommendations from the general public for those unsung heroes who saved lives from disaster or accident situations but refused to publicize it. The recommendations will be received until November 20 and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Korea’s train passengers during the first six months this year has risen 45.3 percent from the same period last year. According to the state-run Korea Railroad Corp., the number of train passengers during the first half of this year was 628,389, up from 432,575. Thanks [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s game market is estimated at 9.75 trillion won in 2012, up 10.8 percent from the previous year’s 8.80 trillion won. By this year’s end the market is projected to have surpassed the 10-trillion-won level and up to 12 trillion won by 2015. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Instagram, an online photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service, introduced on October 18 on its main page pictures of Garosu-gil, a street in Seoul’s Gangnam famous for upscale clothiers, cafes, and restaurants, and said this is the place to find out the latest fashion trend in Seoul. Fashion [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a business of deleting online records of past is prospering as more people demand their right to be forgotten.* These service providers search and destroy private data spread on the Internet and help their clients set up “time bombs” on postings to self-detonate after a certain time [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) – T-ara, the six-member girl group, has released a new album “Again” in the month of October in which so many other Korean groups came back with new albums. Their eighth album has two title songs, “Number Nine” and “I Know the Feeling.” In the teaser video of Number [...]
DAEGU, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2013 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the governments of North Gyeongsang Province and Pohang City, will be held for two days between October 19 and 20 at Pohang’s City Gymnasium. The event is sponsored by POSCO, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Banila Co., Korea’s cosmetic company, will hold a special discount event to celebrate the eighth anniversary of company launching. It will start selling from October 18 a limited number of eight-item packages consisting of Clean-It Zero, Prime Primer Classic, the Secret Marbling Highlighter, Two Eyes Shadow, Style Eyeliner [...]
How big is your apartment, Engine size of your cars, Balance in your bank account, These are far from his idea of future dreams. He begins to think his life is worthless. SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Jaurim, the four-member rock band, has come back with a new album “Goodbye Grief” in more [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] The Rise of New Breed: Night Exercisers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/512290568_bb239f96bb_o-800x535.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] The Rise of New Breed: Night Exercisers")
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The average time for Koreans to go to bed is getting late. Last year, Gallup Korea conducted a survey on 1,218 men and women over 19 years of age about their time to sleep, get up, and average hours of sleep. The results were: the average time to [...]