WANDO, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Wando Island has been selected as the best green city in the 2015 Korea Master Brand Awards, which are based on Korean customers’ opinions collected through surveys. According to Wando county officials on April 16, the awards committee conducted a survey for 15 days and said that respondents had [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A special report center dedicated to meteors was established to authenticate, register and store them safely. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that it opened the Meteorite Report Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources in Daejeon on April 16. The primary role [...]
CHEONGDO, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — One hundred fighting bulls will have a fierce battle of horns at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival, which is being held at Cheongdo Bullfighting Stadium in Hwayang-eup. The festival, which opened on April 15, will have weight-divided competitions for the first three days. More intriguing gambling-type competitions will be held [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A twenty-something woman protested in a bikini at Cheonggye Stream in Seoul on April 15. The woman, who introduces herself as a feminist and animal rights activist, held a sign saying ‘why are women’s nipples not OK when men’s are?’ at the stream. The activist also picketed topless at Gwanghwamun [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor announced that it will offer special test drives for its All New Tucson together with car sharing operator Green Car from April 14 to May 12. Anyone with a drivers’ license is eligible to take a test drive with the compact SUV. For the promotion, Hyundai will run [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech firm, said Wednesday it will release a low-end smartphone that boasts a slightly curved screen. Although not as curved as the G Flex 2 released earlier this year, which has a curvature of 650-750R, the LG Volt will come with a 4.7-inch [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao will start a webtoon service in China, introducing 40 Korean webtoons in Chinese on four Chinese online platforms, qq.com, U17, Cmread and Mileland. The company will also expand its business in the U.S.A and start to prepare for Japanese operations in the second half of the year, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics’ new Tromm Styler, an ingenious, next-generation washing machine, had accumulated sales of 12,000 units 100 days after its launch, according to a company statement on April 14. The figure marks a 500 percent increase over sales of the previous model. The Tromm Styler, which sanitizes and removes [...]
YONGIN, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hantaek Botanical Garden in Yongin is launching its Spring Flower Festival on April 18 at its garden housing 9,700 plant species. Visitors can observe indigenous flowers that bloom in the spring, and can also visit the garden’s two greenhouses dedicated to Australian and South American species to view exotic flowers. [...]
BOSEONG, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The fifth King cherry blossom festival in Boseong attracted 10,000 tourists from April 10 to 14. The road to Daewon Temple in Boseong welcomed flower viewers with its more than 30-year-old cherry trees, and is on the list of Korea’s 100 most beautiful roads published by the Ministry of Land, [...]