SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Hausys has launched Medistep origin, Korea’s first medical facility-specialized flooring, said the company on May 28. Medistep origin is comprised of one layer, and is thus resistant to damage from loads, whereas existing flooring is usually made with multiple layers and is rather susceptible to weight-associated damages. Currently, [...]
SUWON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Good Game Show Korea 2015, Korea’s largest gaming festival, will be held at KINTEX in Goyang from May 29 to 31. This year, the number and the quality of gaming consoles and systems from VR and motion recognition companies are richer than ever. Visitors can experience ‘Minority Report’-like 3D [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — BMW Korea announced that its BMW Driving Center on Yeongjong Island had welcomed 100,000 visitors as of May 24, nine months after its opening in August of last year. The driving center offers various fun family experiences while driving BMW vehicles. In particular, its 2.6-kilometer track enables drivers to [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Jin Air, a budget airline in Korea, will be the first carrier to introduce Kakao Pay as a mobile ticket payment method. With its decision, passengers purchasing Jin Air tickets through the Internet or on mobile apps will be able to pay using their Kakao Pay accounts, as well [...]
BUSAN, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Agricultural Technology Center has developed a way to harvest fig fruits after only 10 months of cultivation. Under normal circumstances, it takes about 20 months for new fig trees to bear fruit. In Korea, fig farmers usually take cuttings of thin, young branches, whose diameter is smaller [...]
JEONJU, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Jeonju and Goheung County have signed a MoU to efficiently recycle large waste items such as disposed furniture. Goheung County will be purchasing waste from Jeonju and providing it to Yeosu’s Thermal Power Plant. The county will dispatch two workers with three waste decomposing machines to [...]
JEJU, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Fairy pitta bird that crashed into a building’s window in Jeju on May 15 has been released back into the wild. A wildlife rescue team at Jeju University had been treating injuries to its head and legs, and released the healed bird into a forest in Jeju on [...]
DAEJEON, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A colony of 100-year old black locust trees has been found at Gwangreung Forest in Seoul. The 133 giant trees are the legacy of an afforestation project that took place during the Japanese occupation era, which until recently was only known in record books. The Korea Forest Service (KFRI) [...]
ULSAN, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A suicide monitoring system consisting of 80 loudspeakers and 4 CCTV cameras has been installed at a new 8.38㎞ long bridge in Ulsan. The newly constructed Ulsan Bridge is scheduled to open on June 1, while the developer Ulsan Harbor Bridge started to operate its bridge control center concerning [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphins, Taesan and Boksoon, who returned to their hometown sea in front of Jeju Island from Seoul Grand Park, are smoothly adopting themselves to the new environment, according to the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute. They are now in an enclosing net for their initial captivity-to-wild [...]