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 [...]
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 [...]