SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s car exports soared nearly 50 percent on-year in the first half of the year to reach an all-time high, driven by solid demand for eco-friendly cars, the industry ministry said Monday. The value of outbound shipments of automobiles came to US$35.7 billion during the first six months [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign workers accounted for nearly 50 percent of crew members working in South Korea last year, the oceans ministry said Monday. A total of 60,148 crew members were working on local fishing boats as of end-2022, and 28,281 of them were foreigners, or 47 percent of the total, according [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 15 percent of employees in the South Korean construction industry were foreigners in the first quarter of the year amid a shortage of local laborers at construction sites, a report showed Sunday. A total of 110,000 workers of foreign nationality were working at construction sites as of end-March, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Character Licensing Fair 2023, South Korea’s largest fair for the character industry, took place at COEX in southern Seoul on Thursday. For the first time ever, a webtoon booth was set up at the fair. The booth, measuring 7 meters in width and 4 meters in height, resembled [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — University students from a federal republic within Russia are currently visiting South Korea, engaging in various Korean cultural events, including paper folding. A total of 27 students from Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan on Thursday visited the Paper Art Museum in central Seoul on Thursday. “I created a paper [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of Koreans planning trips accompanied by their pets, hotels and airlines are devising new services to attract them. DoubleTree By Hilton Seoul Pangyo offers the rental of premium baby strollers, enabling guests to take leisurely walks with their pets. The hotel additionally provides pet-exclusive dining [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker, said Thursday it will open a popup store in Seongsu-dong, eastern Seoul to support the growth of e-sports. Named Earth 6A3, the store will feature captivating displays that take visitors on a virtual journey, immersing them in the world of professional gaming. The [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Wednesday that a total of 970,000 citizens participated in the Carless Jamsu Bridge Walking Festival in the first half of this year. The Jamsu Bridge festival took place nine times between May 7 and July 9. Among the various programs, the most popular [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will introduce a new feature for its Bespoke Oven, capable of utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) vision recognition technology to identify various types of food through a camera. The internal cameras of View Camera Bespoke Ovens will receive a software update, enabling them to [...]
SUNCHEON, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An Earthing Day is scheduled to take place on Sunday at Suncheon Bay National Garden, a vast ecological park located in the southwestern city of Suncheon. The Organizing Committee for the Suncheonman International Garden Expo explains that “Earthing” is a healing method involving the absorption of the Earth’s curative [...]