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Insurers Lose Customer-raised Lawsuits in More Than 70% of Cases

Insurers Lose Customer-raised Lawsuits in More Than 70% of Cases

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In as many as seven cases out of ten in which a customer sues an insurance company, the defendant lost. As for the cases where an insurance company sues a customer, the success rate was only two thirds, meaning the corporate plaintiff lost 33 percent of times. That [...]

Hyundai Of Brenham Dealership Earns LEED Certification

Hyundai Of Brenham Dealership Earns LEED Certification

BRENHAM, Texas, Sept. 17, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai of Brenham, located in Brenham, Texas, was recently awarded LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Council members were impressed with the building’s innovative use of recycled building materials, on-site waste and water-management, utilization of alternate-fuel vehicles and renewable energy, and general sustainability plan. Hyundai of [...]

Hyundai Motor Offers Music Service to Hearing-impaired Children

Hyundai Motor Offers Music Service to Hearing-impaired Children

SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor said on September 11 that it would provide unlimited music content to ten schools for hearing-impaired children to which it had donated its “Sonata touchable music seat” systems. As part of a wider CSR program “Sonata the Brilliant Sound Project” to offer beautiful music sounds to deaf [...]

Energizer Korea Holds Tree-planting Event Jointly with Seoul Gov’t

Energizer Korea Holds Tree-planting Event Jointly with Seoul Gov’t

SEOUL, Korea, Sep 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Energizer Korea said on September 8 that it held the previous day a tree-planting event at Haneul “Sky” Park near the Seoul World Cup Stadium in west Seoul. As part of a wider campaign “That’s Positive Energy” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and green the environment, the company [...]

Seoul Grand Park Offers Special Program “From Seoul Zoo to DMZ”

Seoul Grand Park Offers Special Program “From Seoul Zoo to DMZ”

SEOUL, Korea, Sep 07 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the upcoming fall season, Seoul Grand Park has launched a special program “From Seoul Zoo to DMZ,” jointly with School Gimm-Young Publishers, a publishing house specializing in children’s books. Attempted for the first time by the Grand Park, the program allows children to experience firsthand wildlife [...]

Korea Telecom Administers Training for Kazakhstan Medical Staff

Korea Telecom Administers Training for Kazakhstan Medical Staff

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 30 (Korea Bizwire) – KT announced on August 29 that 26 medical staffers from Kazakhstan visited its Advanced Institute of Technology on the previous day to learn about KT’s health care service, as well as Korea’s next-generation medical technology that combines information and communications technology. The medical team from Kazakhstan has visited [...]

Kia Motors America And DonorsChoose.org Launch Back-to-School Giving Campaign Benefitting High-Need Schools in the U.S.A.

Kia Motors America And DonorsChoose.org Launch Back-to-School Giving Campaign Benefitting High-Need Schools in the U.S.A.

IRVINE, Calif., Aug 29, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors America (KMA) and DonorsChoose.org today launched a Back-to-School giving campaign to raise $3 million of support for high-need public schools across the country. For the second year in a row, KMA will make a matching contribution for each donation to eligible DonorsChoose.org projects during the month [...]

Age of Credit Card 3.0?

Age of Credit Card 3.0?

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 27 (Korea Bizwire) – People once talked about the end of cash with the advent of the credit payment system. In Korea, ever since that time, credit card companies have competed fiercely with each other to draw more customers through diverse benefits such as customer loyalty program points and discounts. Then what’s [...]

Samsung Electronics to Open ‘Forest of Wind’ at Seoul Grand Park

Samsung Electronics to Open ‘Forest of Wind’ at Seoul Grand Park

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics hosted a tree planting ceremony and concert to celebrate the cultivation of the ‘Forest of Wind’ at Seoul Grand Park in cooperation with the Korea Energy Management Corporation (KEMCO) on August 17. Officials from both companies and Seoul Grand Park, and figure skating star Kim [...]