SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Gochang‘s local wine ‘Sun Wun’ is to be exported to Shandong in China and to be sold as gifts for Chinese New Year celebration. Sun Wun, produced by Gochang West Coast Bokbunja company, is a famous Korean brand known for its selected berries and its fermentation process which takes place [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Models at the Seoul Station branch of Lotte Mart are showcasing unique wine bottles — for “small amount” that come in 7 different types. According to the retailer, this “mini” wine bottles do not inevitably necessitate any wine dedicated glass. Wine has found renewed interest among South Korean liquor [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – KTX Cinema, the world’s first train-run theater, will expand its business into high-speed trains in China. Cinewood Entertainment, co-operator of KTX Cinema together with Korail, signed an MoU with China Culture Investment Group to export the train cinema to China. Tracine, a subsidiary of Cinewood Entertainment operating in China, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — E-mart launched ‘Solutian Repair,’ a new line of anti-wrinkle skin care products at their Yongsan branch, in Yongsan, Seoul on January 20. The line consists of four products: a cleansing facial mask, toner, essence moisturizer and multi-moisturizing balm. The products contain a molecular complex called ‘Tri-Bio’ which is composed of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Models show bags made out of the tents used during the Second World War at Boontheshop & Company in the main branch of Shinsegae Department Store in central Seoul. The bags are designed by Korean brand KANEI TEI, led by a Korean-Japanese designer. Prices range from 217,000 won for a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Philip Morris Korea discounted the price of Marlboro and Parliament cigarettes by 200 won to 4,500 won from January 19. With the price decrease, the price gap between domestic and foreign cigarette products was erased in three years. The industry expects fierce competition for market share among tobacco brands in and [...]
YEONGWOL, Korea, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Dong-gang Cistar Resort held a special wild animal feeding event on January 19. The resort personnel, composed of 20 executive members and employees, left forage corn and hay on the resort’s two promenade parks, ‘Healing Forest’ and ‘Dong-gang Old Road’ for wild animals suffering from a lack of [...]
HWACHEON, Korea, Jan. 19 (Kore Bizwire) – On January 17, participants at the Creative Sleigh Contest held at the 2015 Hwacheon Trout Festival are competing in extraordinary sleighs. The festival has drawn more than 800,000 visitors in just 9 days since its opening. The number of foreign visitors reached 15,000 as of January 19, doubling [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Mini”, a small-sized drum washer made by Dongbu Daewooo Electronics, was included in the top 10 leading products in China selected by Beijing Zhongyikang Shidai Market Research. The selection of Mini was validation for Dongbu Daewoo’s market analysis that China would increase its demand for small-sized home appliances. According [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinhan Financial Group ranked 36th on the list of Top 500 Banking Brands in a recent issue of The Banker. Shinhan also kept Korea’s no. 1 banking brand position on the list for the fourth consecutive year, and ranked 9th out of the top 10 brands in Asia. Shinhan got [...]