Event to Feature Over 14 Hours of Training, Educational Content and Collaboration AUSTIN, TX, Sep. 8 (Korea Bizwire) - SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced its fifth edition of THWACKcamp is scheduled for September 14-15, 2016. THWACKcamp is SolarWinds’ free annual virtual IT event hosted on the company’s online community [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The controversial anti-graft law received a “green light” for full implementation after the Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that its various clauses do not conflict with the country’s highest legal principles. The so-called Kim Young-ran law, named after its proposer, prohibits civil servants, journalists and those hired by private schools [...]
HONG KONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The 27th Hong Kong Book Fair ended today, after drawing record attendance of close to 1.02 million visitors. The week-long literary and cultural extravaganza, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, featured an extensive selection of [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of Samsung Group shares owned by South Korea’s state pension fund jumped to 24.2 trillion won (US$21.2 billion) in the first half of the year, reaching a quarter of its total investment in the local stock market, data showed Wednesday. The National Pension Service (NPS), which manages [...]
SEJONG, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Microdata refers to information from a basic original database that’s created based on statistics and analytical studies, for which input errors and invalid data have been corrected to offer a better user experience. According to Statistics Korea, the total usage of microdata provided by the institution from December 2015 to [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) of Korea announced on July 14 that it would discuss export growth plans for agricultural food products during the ‘Ninth Public-Private Joint Conference on Agricultural Food Product Export Expansion’, which will take place on July 15 at the Korea Federation of [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – With the summer movie season right around the corner, a number of blockbuster movies – Train to Busan (July 20), Jason Bourne (July 27), The Last Princess (early August), and The Tunnel (August 10) – will be fighting for top spot at the Korean box office. According to Korea Film [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Samsung Life Retirement Research Center reported on May 20 that according to a study of 820 married individuals across the country, both male and female and above 20 years of age, husbands and wives are hurt most by their spouses’ words that demean their self-esteem. Of the 441 participating [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced plans Tuesday to streamline its underperforming programs in efforts to advance the local unmanned vehicle industry. It will focus first on developing “common technologies” crucial to drones, driverless cars and unmanned vessels, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The government [...]
INCHEON, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s western port city of Incheon and China’s eastern port city of Weihai have been chosen as priority cooperative cities to establish the “South Korea-China Digital Silk Road” aimed at cementing cooperation in the information-communications field between the nations, an Incheon city official said Monday. The cities will sign a [...]