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Mayor of Mecca Visited Seoul to Examine its Advanced Public Transportation System

Mayor of Mecca Visited Seoul to Examine its Advanced Public Transportation System

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Mecca of Saudi Arabia is a famous destination for Muslims around the globe who will gather together for five days to pray and celebrate on the annual Haii day — which comes on the eighth day of the month of Dhul Al-Hijjah in the Muslim calendar. Around [...]

Hyundai Mobis First to Commercialize Integral ECU-Installed Active Seatbelts in Korea

Hyundai Mobis First to Commercialize Integral ECU-Installed Active Seatbelts in Korea

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 12 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 12th, Hyunday Mobis announced that it had recently finished its Active Seatbelt(ASB) development project and started commercializing ASBs by having them installed in new Genesis that was just released. ASB is a smart safety system designed to minimize the injuries of the passengers with a special [...]

Duty-Free Industry Doing the Society Good by Donating

Duty-Free Industry Doing the Society Good by Donating

INCHEON, Korea, Dec 11 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 11, Korea Duty Free Association (President Won-jun Lee, Board of Director of Lotte Duty Free Co. Ltd.) donated 60 million KRW to 20 teenagers at the service of Social welfare Society (President Sang-Cheon Chang). It also contributed 10 million KRW to Social welfare Society for their successful hosting of [...]

Hawaii State Library Expands its ‘Korea Corner’

Hawaii State Library Expands its ‘Korea Corner’

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 11 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 5, Hawaii State Library (McClly Library) held an opening ceremony for its recently overhauled “Korea Corner” and its newly installed Korean e-book system, joined by local dignataries and high-ranked officers. The renewed “Korea Corner” is part of efforts by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to open ”Korea Promotion Centers” in major [...]

Smartphone Era – You Can Now Even Get Treatments with Smartphones

Smartphone Era – You Can Now Even Get Treatments with Smartphones

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 10 (Korea Bizwire) – “Appcessorries” is a word not strange to those who are into IT. If the first generation appcessories enabled you to measure things such as body fat, alcohol level in your blood stream and skin tone, the second generation can undoubtedly help you do much more. For example, now you can [...]

Underground Parking Lots in Seoul Turns into Highly-Efficient LED-lit Spaces

Underground Parking Lots in Seoul Turns into Highly-Efficient LED-lit Spaces

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The lights in the underground parking lots of apartment housings in the city of Seoul must be on 24 hours a day. They were also mostly fluorescent lights up until recently when the city government started changing the fluorescent lights into economic LED lights. From 2012, the city successfully replaced [...]

British Council Korea Launches Android Version of Its Popular “English Study App Series for Koreans”.

British Council Korea Launches Android Version of Its Popular “English Study App Series for Koreans”.

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 09 (Korea Bizwire) – In cooperation with a mobile app developer, Plus MX(CEOs Kyung-dong Kim & Jong-won Lee), the British Council Korea recently released an Android version of its highly-established “English Study App Series for Koreans”. This App Series consists of British Council Words (“BC Words”), British Council Idioms (“BC Idoms”) and British Council [...]

The ‘2013 Wood Fair’ to be held from December 5th to 8th

The ‘2013 Wood Fair’ to be held from December 5th to 8th

SEOUL, Korea, Nov 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘2013 Wood Fair’will be held at COEX in Samseong-dong, Seoul from December 5th to 8th. Sponsored by the Federation of Lumber Industry Associations and Organized by ExMG, the event  will showcase various aspects of the timber industry,  celebrating increasing public interest in eco-friendly products and ‘green life’ illustrating the [...]

Strong Partners Aboarded for World Cyber Games This Year Again!

Strong Partners Aboarded for World Cyber Games This Year Again!

SEOUL, Korea, Nov 22 (Korea Bizwire) – World Cyber Games (WCG), Inc., the organizer of the longest running global eSports tournament and festival in existence, announced the partnership with the global leading corporations in various fields for the WCG 2013 Grand Final.Samsung Electronics, a main sponsor of WCG will support for the great success of the event [...]

Convenient Int’l Calling Card “OTO Global Card” Available for Sale in CU Stores

Convenient Int’l Calling Card “OTO Global Card” Available for Sale in CU Stores

SEOUL, Korea, Nov 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Software company OpenVACS has launched a new international calling card “OTO Global Card,” following the same service on the Internet. The calling card, to be sold in 8,000 CU convenience stores across the country, allows the user to make phone calls to 245 countries worldwide. Available in denominations from 5,000 [...]