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LG’s Environmental Commitment Bringing Positive Change Around the World

LG’s Environmental Commitment Bringing Positive Change Around the World

SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics (LG) is hosting a slate of activities timed to coincide with this year’s World Environment Day on June 5 under its strong commitment to environmental stewardship. LG shares the goal of encouraging more people to live sustainably with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the sponsor of [...]

Nexon Enters into Strategic Partnership with Austrian Game Developer Socialspiel Entertainment

Nexon Enters into Strategic Partnership with Austrian Game Developer Socialspiel Entertainment

TOKYO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, announced a strategic relationship with Socialspiel Entertainment GmbH (“Socialspiel”), a Vienna-based social and mobile game development studio. Led by industry veterans Mike Borras and Helmut Hutterer, Socialspiel is a highly-acclaimed European game development studio focused on high-quality, [...]

Visitseoul.net Announces the Infographics of Its Hallyu Event Survey Findings

Visitseoul.net Announces the Infographics of Its Hallyu Event Survey Findings

SEOUL, Korea, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Visitseoul.net announced the infographics from their Hallyu Event survey which was conducted through renewal website and SNS of Visitseoul.net. This survey have taken place in March and over 230 Hallyu(Korean Pop Culture) fans from 8 countries including China, Indonesia and Japan participated. The survey reveals that top interests [...]

NTREEV SOFT’s Sci-Fi Strategy Game ‘Second Earth’ Now Available For Mobile Devices Worldwide

NTREEV SOFT’s Sci-Fi Strategy Game ‘Second Earth’ Now Available For Mobile Devices Worldwide

SEOUL, Korea, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NTREEV SOFT announced the global launch of its combat strategy game Second Earth. Simultaneously released in more than 130 countries around the world, Second Earth is available for free on iOS and Android devices. Second Earth is a sci-fi strategy game in which players have to grow and [...]

“Swarovski for Samsung” Collection Launches On Samsung Online Store

“Swarovski for Samsung” Collection Launches On Samsung Online Store

SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, the global leader in mobile technology, today announced the launch of “Swarovski for Samsung,” an exclusive collection of Swarovski crystal accessories for the Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit. The “Swarovski for Samsung” collaboration comes on the heels of a successful accessory partnership between the two brands [...]

KERIS Selects ProQuest to Provide Unprecedented Collection of Periodicals Archive Online

KERIS Selects ProQuest to Provide Unprecedented Collection of Periodicals Archive Online

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, expands its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. [...]

SK Telecom Opens ‘Smart Class’ in Azerbaijan

SK Telecom Opens ‘Smart Class’ in Azerbaijan

Seoul, Korea, Apr. 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that the company together with Sungshin Woman’s University held an opening ceremony of ‘Smart Class’ in Baku, the capital city of Republic of Azerbaijan.   ‘Smart Class’ was set up at the building of ‘WLTY(World League of Turkish Youth)’, a vocational training institution for [...]

DESIGN POWER OF INCHEON SHAKES MILAN AT ‘CUORE DEL DESIGN INCHEON KOREA’

DESIGN POWER OF INCHEON SHAKES MILAN AT ‘CUORE DEL DESIGN INCHEON KOREA’

INCHEON, South Korea, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Business Agency (http://www.iba.or.kr)  successfully completed ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ held in Milan,  Italy. Manager of ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ said, “More than 1,000  visitors visited the exhibition per day, and a large number of visitors  showed deep interest asking questions about features and [...]

Samsung Mobile Launches Technology Partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Samsung Mobile Launches Technology Partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America

RICHARDSON, Texas & ATLANTA, Apr. 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are critical to the future success of young people as many of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S. will require some education in STEM. Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile) today announced a national technology partnership with Boys [...]

Incheon, ‘World Book Capital 2015′ to Exhibit at the London Book Fair 2014

Incheon, ‘World Book Capital 2015′ to Exhibit at the London Book Fair 2014

SEOUL, Korea, Mar. 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Metropolitan City will participate at Korea Market Focus Pavilion at the 43rd London Book Fair. Incheon will be the only Korean city that exhibits in the pavilion. In particular, it will promote Incheon as World Book Capital 2015 named by UNESCO, targeting visitors from all around the world. They have [...]