SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The city-affiliated Seoul Facilities Corp. announced that it has set up benches made from upcycled plastic and masks along the Cheonggye Stream walkway in downtown Seoul. The corporation signed an agreement with Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lowlit Collective to create two kinds of upcycled benches. One type of bench [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte ON, an online shopping website running by the retail arm of Lotte Group, said Wednesday it will release an upcycled replica of the rubber duck that was put up for exhibition in Seokchon Lake in Seoul’s Songpa Ward in October. This project aims to recycle the rubber duck made with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it will introduce a new safety management solution in which smartphones are used to remotely monitor the risk factors of manhole accidents. The solution is a combination of TANGO, SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based system; cybersecurity service provider SK [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Cheiljedang Corp., an unit of South Korean food and entertainment giant CJ Group, said Tuesday that the official cheering sticks for the 2022 MAMA Awards, the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards that open in Japan on Tuesday, were made from its Hetbahn cooked rice product containers. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Woori Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks, said Wednesday it will be releasing a new installment savings plan that will provide a high annual interest rate of up to 11 percent for those who walk more than 10,000 steps a day. The availability of this installment savings [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A “yellow carpet” was laid out on a popular tourist island in South Korea using autumn leaves. Some 10 tons of autumn leaves were collected in Songpa District, Seoul to create a 100-meter-long “yellow carpet” on Nami Island, located in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province. The leaves are regarded as a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that enables remote real-time monitoring of the location and owner of fishing nets via electronic tags. The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) said Thursday that it will carry out a marine demonstration test for the commercialization of [...]
JEJU, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Provincial Government and the Jeju Tourism Organization said Wednesday that they completed a unique tour program designed to promote barrier-free tourism from Nov. 3-5. The tour program, which was conducted in collaboration with the Korea Association of the Deaf, welcomed 19 hearing-impaired people and their families residing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Changing rooms, which once featured white walls and hooks to hang clothes, are turning into new places where young people in their 20s and 30s can take eye-catching photos and videos. Local brand Ader Error recently opened a flagship store in Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood, with its extraordinary changing rooms [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean credit card company has released a new card targeting consumers who actually want to pay on an installment plan at places like restaurants but hesitate to do so in fear of losing face in front of their acquaintances. LOCA NANUGI Card, released by Lotte Card Co., [...]