SEOUL, Korea, Feb 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kabam, the leader in the western world for free-to-play games for traditional players, today announced its continued international expansion with an office opening in April in the Sinsa-dong district of Seoul. Kabam’s Seoul office will provide live operations, localization, quality assurance, marketing, and player experience services dedicated [...]
SEOUL & POHANG, Korea, Feb 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The POSCO Music Concert is returning with a more enriched program. Since being held first as the `Millennium New Year`s Eve Concert` in December 1999, leading Korean artists have performed at the POSCO Music Concert, regardless of genre. Marking 156 performances and over 140,000 cumulative attendees, the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Leading the exploration of new themes for the Korean drama genre, CJ E&M, Asia’s No.1 Total Contents Company, has launched the new mystery crime drama Cheo Yong: The Paranormal Detective. Starring Oh Ji-Ho and Oh Ji-Eun, and Jun Hyo-Seong from popular K-Pop girl group Secret, Cheo Yong portrays the [...]
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – For Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Styletag – the new mobile app for iOS and Android that curates crowd-sourced fashion content from around the globe – hit the streets to capture and showcase the most exciting new trends coming down the real runway: the sidewalks of New York City. While [...]
TORONTO, ON, February 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Four new clubs have joined the Thinking Skills Club fold in the past three months, and more are expected to go online after March Break. It shows that the educational website, on which students play computer games that help them develop their minds, is definitely filling a need. “We’ve [...]
NORTH CLARENDON, VT, Feb 09 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2012, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video hit YouTube and blew every other video out of the water, to the tune of 1.8 billion views and counting. This phenomenon took the global awareness of K-pop to a whole new level inspiring author Mark James Russell to write K-POP [...]
HOLLYWOOD, California, Feb, 10 (Korea Bizwire) – On the heels of its US theatrical run, WEDDING PALACE has been released by Gravitas Ventures throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. To celebrate WEDDING PALACE is hosting a social media event to promote fun, Korean food, and romance for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Winner of [...]
London, Feb 06, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Eros International Plc (EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry announced today that it will release the blockbuster film, English Vinglish, in South Korea on February 6, 2014. Following on the heels of the film’s success in Hong Kong and Germany last year, [...]
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors America (KMA) and the Los Angeles Clippers are teaming up to give away “Griffin Force” capes to help fans cheer on the Clippers when the team takes on the Miami Heat tonight at the Staples Center. The Clippers are currently leading the Pacific Division, and fans will [...]
SOCHI, Russia, Feb 04, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is the first Games in history to mitigate the entire direct carbon footprint of its Organizing Committee prior to the Opening Ceremony. Sochi 2014 officially announced today that over 520,000 metric tons (MT) of CO2 equivalents have already been mitigated through the “Sustainable [...]