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, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean artists are holding musical and stage performances to remember those who perished in the Sewol ferry tragedy, a year after the disaster took place. The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture is opening ‘Deluge,’ a non-verbal stage work made in remembrance of the incident, from April 16 to [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A global water forum kicked off for a six-day run in this southeastern city on Sunday to explore ways to cope with water shortages and other related problems, organizers said. The World Water Forum (WWF), the seventh of its kind, brings together about 1,800 political leaders, businesspeople and activists from [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Suncheon is offering weekend observatory classes where anyone can learn about the migration of snipes and plovers, and observe them in their natural environment with instruction from professionals. Entitled “The 12,000 Km Journey of Snipes,” the program will be held at Suncheon Bay Ecological Park, a [...]