SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor’s Santa Fe SUV won the “Family Car of the Year” award for two years consecutively in the U.S. with its family-friendly driving features and improved safety. Cars.com granted the award, saying that the Santa Fe earned high scores for family activities, and strengthened safety and driving systems. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics rolled out “Gram 14,” the lightest 14-inch display laptop in the world weighing just 980 grams on January 14. Although it has a wider display than its predecessor, it maintained not only its weight but also its thickness of only 13.4 millimeters, inheriting its ultra slim design. Gram [...]
YANGJU, Korea, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Yangju Snow Festival 2015, a snow festival filled with art exhibitions and entertaining winter activities, started on January 9 at the Yangju Art Valley in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, according to the festival’s organizer, CROWN-Haitai Confectionary Co. on January 12. The festival was first held in 2014, and is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — GM unveiled its new Chevrolet Volt at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show on January 12. The new 2016 model features an all new Voltec extended range electric vehicle (EREV) propulsion system composed of a lithium-ion battery, drive unit, and ‘range extending system’ engine. The new Volt can go 200 miles (320 kilometers) [...]
BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Korea bizwire) – Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, said Monday it aims to sell 20,000 Sorento sport-utility vehicles in China this year as it seeks to win a bigger slice of the fast-growing SUV market here. The revamped Sorento, which is offered with either a 2.4-liter gasoline or 2.2-liter diesel [...]
HWACHEON, Korea, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Festival, a famous ice-fishing festival in Gangwon Province, began with a record high 151,100 visitors on January 10, and drew almost the same number of visitors the following day, totaling more than 300,000 visitors including some 5,000 foreigners in just two days. Thousands of visitors [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – At the fifth CAKE Square held at COEX in Seoul on January 11, participants are looking around at various creative content including crafts. The event is a subculture fair in the form of an exhibition, where individuals or members of content groups display their creative work in comics, animation characters, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s new range of SUHD TVs all earned awards at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samsung’s SUHD TVs are next generation monitors that use advanced 4K display technology. Samsung’s UN105S9B 105″ bendable SUHD TV, the largest in the world, earned a CES award for Best Innovation, giving the company [...]
BUSAN, Korea, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Oscar, owned by MSC, the world’s second largest shipping company, arrived at the new port of Busan on January 8. Oscar is the largest container vessel in the world, with a capacity of 19,224 20-feet long containers. Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering built the ship at its Okpo shipyard. The [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – From January 9 to 18, the Daegwallyeong Snow Festival will be held at Daegwallyeong in Pyeongchang. With a theme entitled “Dream of Snow Land: Hoping For a Successful 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics,” the festival will showcase various snow-related sculptures in one of Korea’s winter wonderlands. The snow sculptures include [...]