SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Even if you are a good-hearted who believes there are many people out there in this world who are less fortunate and in desperate need of help, it is often hard for you to put the idea into action. Making donations for good causes may often be a burden [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KT announced on July 11 that it has successfully established “a Smart Plant Factory Total Solution,” an agricultural cultivation facility using ICT technology, in one of the agrarian districts of Gangwon Province in Korea. As part of the wider program to make farming a high value-added business and linked with [...]
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. July 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Samsung today announced that the company has awarded 63 scholarships to New Jersey high school students to serve as Samsung Scholars at the Rutgers Summer Science Program in July, which provides participants with week-long science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) immersion sessions. Further, two former Summer Science Program [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, all foreign residents living in Seoul can send money to their home country without fees. Starting on July 1, Woori Bank will exempt 100 percent of remittance charge (from 10,000 won to 30,000 won) to foreigners residing in Seoul when they visit any of its bank offices nationwide. In [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor has joined hands with college students to beautify Seoul. The auto maker said on June 29 that it signed an agreement with the Association Student Ambassadors-Korea (ASA-K) and the Seoul Metropolitan City Government on the 27th at the City Hall in a bid to make the nation’s capital [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – As corporate social responsibility has rapidly gained wide acceptance as one of the corporate core duties, the current trend has evolved to involve participation from customers. Such evolution has shifted the companies’ CSR style from making sporadic donations to take a step further to initiate social contribution programs which get [...]
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics America, Inc. today announced major updates to Samsung School, its fully integrated one-to-one learning solution, available now for school districts for the 2014-2015 academic year. Designed to be more intuitive and participatory, the latest version of Samsung School will be on display at Booth #1514, [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, Korea’s largest telecom service firm, said on June 26 that it would begin a new corporate social responsibility program for the visually impaired as a way to provide opportunities for them to read more books. The company recruited 250 volunteers from its employees and their family members to do the [...]
Bali, Indonesia, June 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Bali continues to receive international attention for its alarming waste problem. Last March 2014, Huffington Post published an article called, “Why You Should Take Bali Off Your Bucket List”, highlighting the growing amount of rubbish on Bali’s famous beaches and referring the situation as an environmental disaster. “We all should [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of domestic companies become increasingly crucial as South Asian and Southeast Asian countries centering on India ask them to expand the CSR activities. For example, India enforced a law making CSR activities compulsory for large companies last April. According to the law, companies [...]