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[Feature] Korean Edition of “The Big Issue” Proves Successful Social Enterprise Model

[Feature] Korean Edition of “The Big Issue” Proves Successful Social Enterprise Model

SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been four years since the Big Issue, a magazine published for giving the homeless the opportunity to earn their own money, came out in Korea. For these years, it is generally assumed the magazine has been a modest success. In the beginning, the magazine was sold about [...]

Asiana Airlines Takes Initiatives in Preserving Wetlands

Asiana Airlines Takes Initiatives in Preserving Wetlands

SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines designated the last week of April as the “Green Week” to preserve wetlands nearby its airport operations in and outside Korea. From April 28 to May 2, its employees in 10 domestic airport service branches and 15 overseas airport service units in New York and Beijing offered [...]

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 [...]

Expressway Rest Area Samaritans Roll up Sleeves for Malaria Prevention Cause

Expressway Rest Area Samaritans Roll up Sleeves for Malaria Prevention Cause

SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating World Malaria Day, which came on April 25th, “Ki-Heung Service Area,” an expressway rest area in the south of Seoul, took an initiative to prevent Malaria for locals and children in Uganda.  “World Share,” an overseas relief agency, teamed up with the rest area to hold a “Mosquito Net [...]

Mobile Trend Creates Cultural Shift in Micro Philanthropy

Mobile Trend Creates Cultural Shift in Micro Philanthropy

SEOUL, Korea, April 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The mobile applications are revolutionizing the ways of charitable giving to fun, engaging and simple. Now users can engage in philanthropic deeds and have fun at the same time just by connecting to mobile. “World Vision” has developed a mobile app called ‘My Kids,’ which is an [...]

SK Telecom’s Heartwarming Technology Provides Eyes to Visually Impaired

SK Telecom’s Heartwarming Technology Provides Eyes to Visually Impaired

SEOUL, Korea, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced on April 17 that they have developed a smartphone-based digital image management service which will allow videos to be transmitted digitally to counselors, who will help the visually-impaired by telecommunications with the live video footages.  The image management service will be comprised of wearable [...]

Smoking Ads Will Be More “in Your Face”

Smoking Ads Will Be More “in Your Face”

SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – While delightful background music is playing, disturbing images of decayed human body parts are flashed with a caption saying “Every cigarette is doing you damage.” This is the content of an anti-smoking advertisement made by the government of Australia. In order to convey a powerful message, the [...]

LG Announces ‘Final Four’ Local Schools Competing For ‘Project Fit America’ Physical Education Grant

LG Announces ‘Final Four’ Local Schools Competing For ‘Project Fit America’ Physical Education Grant

Project Fit America Celebration from Sandra Kolbo on Vimeo. ARLINGTON, Texas, March 20, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics USA today announced the “final four” North Texas elementary schools that will compete for a physical education grant at LG’s Coaches Cook-Off™ competition during the NCAA® Men’s Final Four® weekend. The four schools – Silver Creek Elementary [...]

Hyundai Hope On Wheels To Sponsor Pediatric Cancer Town Hall Meeting At 2014 AACR Annual Meeting

Hyundai Hope On Wheels To Sponsor Pediatric Cancer Town Hall Meeting At 2014 AACR Annual Meeting

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 19, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Hope On Wheels®, a leading contributor to pediatric cancer research nationwide, announced today it will sponsor the Pediatric Cancer Town Hall Meeting at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research to be held April 5-9, 2014 in San Diego, Calif. The Pediatric [...]