SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the fall tourism peak season, the Seoul city government will seek to encourage homeowners to rent out their extra rooms to foreign tourists visiting the city. The city’s policy makers expect that the measure would relieve the problem of hotel room shortages while at the same [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean consumers are happy with their money spent on cultural and leisure activities, but they also feel pressed by increasing cost of food. The Korea Consumer Agency released the annual report on consumption behaviors among Korean adults for 2013. According to the report, Korean consumers rated their general [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 05 (Korea Bizwire) – From narrow, steep alleyways in hillside shanty towns to backstreets with rows of centuries-old traditional houses, Seoul has many faces hidden from public view. But these are exactly where you can find and hear life stories of real Seoulites. The Seoul Design Foundation said on September 5 that it [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Library will provide a service on its website that lists the location, telephone number, and other information of more than 100 secondhand bookstores in Seoul after an overall survey of such bookstores in all 25 city districts. The city government of Seoul announced that it will [...]
ANYANG, South Korea, Aug 29, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Breeze & BridgeCo., Ltd, a company that attracted a lot of attention from the education industry three months ago after the launch of their active learning travel workbook ‘QR’s Jolly – Gyeongju’ has announced that they will release a Gongju/Buyeo and Jeju edition on August 23rd. The [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A way to buy airplane tickets at a half price by being diligent online has been introduced on the Internet. Usually, people could use frequent flyer mileage points that they have accumulated to save money when purchasing tickets, but the recently introduced scheme is a way to gain [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The provincial government of Gyeonggi will host a talk concert on a bus with citizens commuting to Seoul through bus on August 29. Kim Moon-soo, Governor of Gyeonggi Province will personally be hosting the concert which will talk about public transportation in the metropolitan area. The event titled [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s No. 1 online portal Naver announced that it is going to air, “I Am Your Songwriter” a label show by indie music production company, Magic Strawberry Sound, on its website’s Naver Music Live streaming service. Naver Music has been introducing indie musicians in label show formats since [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Single Korean adults are becoming more and more nonchalant about marriage. Are growing trends of herbivorous men and carnivorous women actually contributing to this phenomenon? As reported in the preceding article concerning herbivorous men and carnivorous women in Korea, it seems that Korean men are becoming more inclined [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport unveiled a modern-styled ‘Model Hanok’ at 2 pm on Friday, August 23. The new hanok, or Korean traditional house, is cost-efficient at only about 60 percent of conventional construction costs and more comfortable than the traditional hanok. While interest in traditional [...]