SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is launching a timely marketing campaign aimed at budget-conscious consumers. On Wednesday, Samsung announced the upcoming ‘Samsung Power Saving Home Appliance Festa,’ which will be held both online and offline across the nation from June 1 to July 31. The campaign aims to alleviate the burden on [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced on Wednesday the launch of its first-ever 89-inch micro light-emitting diode (LED) in the Chinese market. These micro LEDs are tiny LEDs that emit light and color independently, eliminating the need for backlighting or color filters and delivering exceptional picture quality. The absence of a bezel [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of startups in South Korea dropped more than 4 percent in the first quarter of the year amid economic uncertainties at home and abroad, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 333,000 new companies were set up in the country in the January-March period, down 4.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of agriculture tractors hit a record high in 2022 by advancing 23 percent on-year, data showed Wednesday, amid growing demand for small-sized models. The value of tractors shipped overseas came to US$1.24 billion in 2022, rising from $1 billion tallied a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign ownership of South Korean land rose 1.8 percent in 2022 from a year earlier, the land ministry said Wednesday. Foreigners owned 264.01 square kilometers — slightly more than four times the size of Manhattan — at the end of December. It represents 0.26 percent of South Korea’s total [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will collaborate with Samsung Electronics Co. to release an entry-level smartphone called the Galaxy Quantum 4. The Galaxy Quantum 4 is the fourth model in SK Telecom’s Quantum series of quantum smartphones and is equipped with quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset. The [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Kenkoku Junior High School, part of the Baekdu Hagwon in Osaka, a Korean school for Korean Japanese students, announced on Tuesday that it will host the 2023 International Yun Dong-ju Poetry Recitation Contest. The contest aims to promote the poetry of prominent Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), who spread [...]
DAEGU & BOSEONG, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) —Next week, on June 6th, we will celebrate Mangjong, also known as awned grain, which is the ninth of the 24 solar terms. Mangjong indicates the celestial longitude reaching 75 degrees and signifies an auspicious time for sowing the seeds of bearded grains, such as rice. In agrarian [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign travelers to South Korea surged by sevenfold in April from a year earlier on eased travel restrictions amid efforts to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, data showed Tuesday. A total of 889,000 foreign travelers visited South Korea last month, up nearly 600 percent from the 128,000 [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail sales in South Korea rose 4 percent on-year in April on the back of people’s growing outdoor activities and various promotional events by major discount stores, the industry ministry said Tuesday. The combined sales of 25 major offline and online retailers came to 14.08 trillion won (US$10.67 billion) [...]