SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – WorkNet, a website providing employment information to job seekers on the Internet, jointly run by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Employment Information Service, causes controversies with its online content seemingly condoning and encouraging sexual abuse. The Korean Women’s Association United announced that the website has provided [...]
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) recently celebrated Global Week of Service, the company’s worldwide annual volunteer event. Now in its third year, the company’s largest expression of community service included more than 3,500 projects designed to address the social, economic and environmental needs in 86 countries. Global Week of Service provides [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The BMW i8, a plug-in hybrid sports car, will make its official debut in South Korea early next year, which will be the first plug-in hybrid model running on the Korean roads. With its futuristic exterior design, the i8 boasts powerful performances: a total of 362 horsepower and 58.2 [...]
REDWOOD, Calif. Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – C3 Energy has joined the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Trade and Development Agency in major trade missions to drive discussions around smart grid technology globally. Most recently, C3 Energy participated in a trade mission to meet with electricity and gas utilities and senior government officials in Japan [...]
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors America (KMA) today brought the sights and sounds of the race track to the opening day of the 2014 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. Just five years after the brand boldly announced its intention to enter professional motorsports in the U.S. at the 2009 SEMA Show, [...]
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai has once again teamed up with some of the biggest names in the automotive tuning community for SEMA 2014. This year, Hyundai focuses on the performance and tuning capabilities of its newest models, the 2015 Genesis and 2015 Sonata. Also featured in this year’s roster is the most-powerful [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Corning Inc. plans to invest 900 billion won, or about US$835.6 million, to increase its production volume in South Korea. It will also invest another 10 billion won to establish a research and development center in Korea for the first time. Corning announced on November 4 that its CEO Wendell [...]
Shanghai, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd. (the “Company”, or “Hanwha SolarOne”), a top-10 global photovoltaic manufacturer of high-quality, cost-competitive solar modules, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Yantai Municipal Bureau of Commerce (“YMBC”) to establish a long-term strategic partnership with the aim to develop distributed generation (DG) PV [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it acquired Proximal Data, Inc., a San Diego, California-based pioneer of server-side caching software with I/O intelligence that work within virtualized systems. “We are delighted to have Proximal Data join us, which will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reported that female migrant workers are easily exposed to one of the worst human rights violations, sexual abuse, in South Korea. Of the migrant women working in South Korea, 10.7 percent went through sexual harassment or sexual assault, according to data conducted by a human rights advocacy [...]