SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a situation where all food and beverage service businesses are struggling mightily owing to the ongoing recession and the rising food ingredient costs, there is one segment in the industry defying the overall slump: specialty coffee stores. According to a consulting firm specializing in franchise store, out [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Metropolitan City Government of Incheon said on October 14 that it would begin removing trash cans inside toilets of public bathrooms and encourage bathroom users to throw used toilet tissue in the toilet bowl. It has been customary in Korea’s public restrooms to ask the users not [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An event will be open to give visitors to it a chance to sample foods from all around the world. The Incheon Metropolitan City Government, in partnership with the Korea Food Service Industry Association, will hold the “2013 Incheon World Food Culture Exposition” for three days between October [...]
I am lost. Where can I go? A small alleyway split into twelve ways Where can I go to meet you again? SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A girl finds a pair of pink shoes after looking for her destiny desperately. IU has come back to us with her third album “Modern Times” [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently matchmaking service company Baroyeon asked 1,033 single women, “What do you think about men who have not served in the military?” To this, 744 female respondents (72.1%) answered that they don’t find attractive men who haven’t been to the military. Among young women, army barracks culture is [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SHINee, pronounced “shy-nee,” the five-member Korean boy group, has come back with the release on October 10 of a new music video “Everybody,” the title song of their fifth mini album. The title song is easy to sing along as it is a “complextro” genre song. The rhythm [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans have long believed that the most important thing in home building is harmony with the nature. They correctly thought houses built surrounding environmental conditions in mind can withstand natural elements better. For this reason, we Koreans boast tens of thousands of traditional houses still standing in this [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Taekwondo is no doubt one of the proudest products of Korea. The World Taekwondo Hanmadang 2013 was held for four days from August 28 to 31 at Daejeon Chungmu Gymnasium. The 21st annual event was participated by 3,400 Taewondo masters and high-rankers from 46 countries worldwide. The [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 08 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2013 Mobile World Congress held in February at Barcelona, Spain, a service called “Tractive” has been given keen attention by pet lovers. The service is intended to keep tract of dogs and cats so that their owners don’t have to worry about pets straying too far [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 08 (Korea Bizwire) – The value of the Korean language is highlighted again as the October 9 Hangul Day is observed as a holiday from this year in 23 years. These days, older people are increasingly concerned about children’s language habits. For example, the way elementary school kids talk is almost [...]