SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency said Saturday it will consider imposing taxes on Google Inc.’s planned enforcement of a 30 percent commission on in-app purchases of digital content from its Play Store next year. In a written answer submitted to Rep. Kim Soo-hong of the ruling Democratic Party, the National [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases rose by double digits for the fourth straight day Sunday, yet health authorities are still on alert over a possible spike in infections amid back-to-back holidays. The country added 58 more COVID-19 cases, including 46 local infections, raising the total caseload to 24,606, [...]
HAENAM, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean farmers have harvested the first bananas ever to be grown in the country’s southern region. Haenam County in South Jeolla province held a banana harvesting ceremony at a local farm on Thursday, as it plans to harvest 12 tons of bananas from 0.4 hectares of land operated [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is a food lover’s paradise. And there are a wide range of delicious dishes in every corner of the country to suit every taste as its people enjoy various culinary delights anytime, anywhere. Among other things, South Korea has a wide variety of noodles on offer, including [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports broadcasting giant ESPN has approached the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) about possibly airing South Korean baseball games to the American audience, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. The sources added that ESPN, for the time being, is showing only some passing interest, and nothing [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2019 Chuncheon World Leisure Sports Festival, which kicks off on September 6, will also host an Agility Festival for pets. Animals and Humans, a South Korean animal welfare agency, will hold the Agility Festival alongside various pet-related events at Chuncheon Songam Sports Town on September 7 and 8. [...]
CHANGWON, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The 57th Jinhae Gunhangjae (Jinhae Naval Port Festival), South Korea’s largest cherry blossom festival, begins today. Changwon, located in South Gyeongsang Province, was already bustling with tourists on March 31, who had come to enjoy the mesmerizing view of some 360,000 fully-bloomed cherry blossom trees. In particular, the view [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipyards, for the first time in seven years, ranked No. 1 in 2018 in terms of annual orders secured, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by global research firm Clarkson Research Institute, local shipbuilders clinched new orders totaling a combined 12.63 million compensated gross [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeongdongjin Coast has been voted the most popular place to watch the sun rise. With Innovation, a South Korean company that provides lodging solutions, asked 400 travel experts about the best place to watch the sun rise in South Korea, 21.3 percent of whom chose the Jeongdongjin Coast [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next month, hydrogen filling stations will be permitted for installation at existing green belt LNG stations. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that an amendment bill lifting restrictions on hydrogen filling stations in green belt areas was approved on Tuesday, and scheduled to take effect next [...]