SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Education attainment plays a significant role in one’s inability to work due to health issues, according to a recent study. A research team led by Prof. Kang Mo-yeol and Jeong Ji-yoon from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital analyzed National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — King Sejong Institute, the state-run Korean culture and language education center, will introduce and support the operation of a preliminary Korean language program in foreign countries where there is demand for Korean language education but supply is limited. The King Sejong Institute Foundation (KSIF) announced on Tuesday that the [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Market Kurly, a rapidly growing online grocery delivery platform, announced on Tuesday that its analysis of companion animal-related consumption for the first half of this year showed that sales of antibiotic-free snacks rose sharply. At Market Kurly, antibiotic-free jerky made of the tenderloin of home-grown duck meat topped the [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike shopping malls struggling in the aftermath of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, discount warehouses are seeing continuous growth. E-Mart Traders, a major discount warehouse chain, saw sales jump by 21.9 percent in the period from January to May compared to the same period last year. The company [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Tuesday that it has developed Plug and Charge technology that enables automatic user certification and payment once a charging plug is inserted into an electric vehicle (EV). This technology ensures simple and automatic charging for EVs without the [...]
GWANGJU, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A new technology has been developed in South Korea to supply power to implanted healthcare devices via a light-emitting diode (LED) patch that uses light as a medium for power supply. A research team led by Lee Jong-ho, professor of mechanical engineering at the Gwangju Institute of Science and [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) –Coffee pods are making up a growing percentage of an ever-growing coffee market in South Korea, with sales of products using pre-ground coffee sealed in a capsule more than doubling compared to sales of ground coffee in the first half of the year. According to Emart, South Korea’s largest discount [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — After enjoying strong growth earlier in the year, the global video streaming platform Netflix is facing declining popularity in South Korea. The situation is the same for South Korea’s major over-the-top (OTT) service providers such as Wavve, Watcha Inc. and Tving. All four companies saw their number of users [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Far-right Christian groups are obstructing the works of the National Assembly with protests against LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) individuals. Representatives at the National Assembly in charge of submitting or processing bills related to human rights protection are constantly hindered by these groups, who call the bills ‘legislation [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Gaming monitors are gaining popularity as more people are playing video games at home following the coronavirus outbreak. TrendForce, a market intelligence provider, estimated that shipments of gaming monitors will reach 12.2 million units worldwide this year, which is 37 percent more than last year. As Sony and Microsoft [...]